Tuesday, May 15, 2012

The Faraday Center

The Faraday Center, Napier.

Our learning focus: -Everyday Technology from the 1880s - 1920s

We were all split up into 6 groups, then we were all given a worksheet to find all the answers round the building.

These are some of the things that you can find in the Faraday Center:

.Energy: gas lamps, heaters, benzene irons ,weird uses for electricity
.Technology at home: cooking,cleaning,sewing and laundry
.Telecommunications: Morse code, manual telephone exchange, telegrams, early radio
.Transport: bullock teams,  horse buggy, 1907 Rover car, Napier's trams, Napier-Taupo road
.Entertainment: Streoscope, Mutoscope, pianola, harmonium, gramophone


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