Something Vicki read led her to want to visit the Musee des Arts et Metiers...arts and measures...although I'd suggest it's mostly history of science and technology from the Enlightenment on. I'd visited it in 2021, solo, and appreciated it as someone who had studied and taught a bit of the history and philosophy of science might. Friday nights are free, and, we thought, why not? My
2021 visit was a bit more comprehensive, but the pix below complement it reasonably well.
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Holy Batmobile, Batman!...it's Adel's 1893 flying machine...got off
the ground but briefly before crashing...but entrenched the term avion
in the language |
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Steam-powered engines...a precursor to the Wrights; and far better
to look at; but didn't fly... |
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Judging from my 2021 pix, we saw two different museums...taking
a wrong turn perhaps...more technology than science |
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Among the automatons of the 18th century, this pianist, belonging
originally to Queen Marie Antoinette |
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| Thus |
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| Paintings were rendered into moving parts too |
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| Another of the Queen's automatons |
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| Scroll-playing mini organ |
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| Solar oven; not Marie Antoinette's |
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| 19th century lightbulbs |
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| Magic lanterns...didn't get a good pic of Edison's phonographes... |
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| Models |
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| Digging the Madrid subway with a French subway digging machine |
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From an 1874 relief map of Paris, showing just our neighborhood
around Luxembourg |
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The whole museum is a former abbey, and the abbey church displays
the most prized objects... |
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| Foucault's Pendulum...demonstrating the rotation of the earth... |
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| And other stuff |
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| Perhaps original hues in the church |
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| As seen in the 2024 Olympics, galloping along the Seine |
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| Click... |
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