While it may not be time-nut centric there is a great museum in Michigan that has collections of both clocks and technology, along with a couple Stradavarius violins and machinist tools used by Mr. Daimler. The Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn, MI has been actively enlarging their technology collection - having recently paid nearly $1 million for an original Apple I built by Jobs & Wozniak. They also have Robert Moog's prototype music synthesizer. Might be time to interest them in adding precision time to their clock and technology collections.
Bob LaJeunesse > Sent: Friday, March 20, 2015 at 1:33 AM > From: "Bill Hawkins" <[email protected]> > To: "'Tom Van Baak'" <[email protected]>, "'Discussion of precise time and > frequency measurement'" <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [time-nuts] Obscure HP T/F instruments in ebay.fr > > There are worse things than breaking up a collection. > > The Baaken Museum of Electricity in Life, near Minneapolis had a > wonderful series of devices that used electricity to examine or prolong > life, or to extract money from suckers. About 20 years ago, someone felt > that there wasn't enough traffic at the museum, so the interesting > exhibits were removed and the museum dumbed down for children. A vampire > might greet you at the door. > > It seems that modern business managers have no time for things that > don't draw crowds or fly off the shelves. If a museum or business wants > to serve a market niche, it must compete with the incessant blizzard of > advertising from the companies that just have to grow. Combine that with > such companies expectations of productivity, and no one has time to > search for interesting museums, never mind go to national parks. > > I would have been fascinated by and supportive of the French HP museum, > had I known about it. I did not even dream such a place existed, but it > makes sense that it was in Europe. Amsterdam has a science museum that > lifts children's interest rather than going down to the lowest level to > draw more people. > > In regard to dumbing down, the movie "Idiocracy" seems predictive. > > Bill Hawkins > > P.S. The Pavek Museum of Broadcasting (radio) is still hanging on. _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
