Post #4

The Deuschtes Museum was a very big place with so many interesting to explore. All had very interactive setting and things to do. One of my favorite places in the museum was the pharmaceutical exhibit. I wrote my paper on the eras right before the museum started their more modern exhibit. It is very interesting to see how the technology has changed the medical industry. Now people are able to see how the inside of a cell functions or how a virus/bacteria works against the body. To see how scientists can quickly test new dieases and find cures to them in months rather than years. It is all very important for people and I think that most people take for grant the medicine we have available to us today.

Post #3

I thought that the Textile Mill was very interesting. I had never put much thought into how my clothes were made or how much history was behind the textile mill industry. It was so interesting to see how the machines changed with the times and how the more they changed the more elaborate the patterns could be on the fabric. I also found the exhibit were it showed the evolution of clothing. From how it went from modest to standing out and back. I never knew that fashion jumped back and forth so much.

Deutsches Museum Exhibits

There are so many exhibits in the Deutsches Museum that I found to be fascinating, that it is difficult to pick just a few things to discuss. One exhibit I found to be very interesting was the ceramics display. There, it showed the evolution of ceramics through the ages, from coil pots through to the modern age. I found the section on pottery from ancient Greece to be especially informative. I did not know that they didn’t glaze their pieces, but instead used a complex system of firing the pieces to obtain the iconic orange and black designs.

I also loved the exhibit on various instruments used in mathematics. They had a whole display on slide rules and on the evolution of calculators. It is difficult to think that our pocket sized calculators used to be the size of old typewriters.

Of course I saw so much like the Enigma machines that I researched, the early computers, the history of papermaking, and so much more. Unfortunately, I cannot write about everything. I am just so amazed that the museum had so much there. It was fantastic.

Computer Science at the Deutsches Museum

The Deutsches Museum was one of my favorite locations of the entire trip, and my favorite part of the museum was the computer science exhibition. Last semester I took one of my favorite college courses (have I said 'favorite' enough?) called Logic and Digital Design, EE3770, which was essentially embodied throughout the entire museum exhibit of binary circuits and logic. It contained a lot of neat examples of basic logic functions using mechanical circuits. It was really cool to see demonstration circuits of functions that I had designed and wired in class! I have never before felt like I understood and related to a museum exhibition so thoroughly. The fact that we got to visit one of the biggest science museums in the world was such an incredible experience, and I felt so lucky to have been able to experience it if only for two days!

Here are some pictures of circuits that I have wired in class before!

 

 

The Deutsches Museum

The Deutsches Museum had a most of its top floors dedicated to the different areas of astronomy. But the one part of astronomy I found most interesting was the room dedicated to the Big Bang theory. There were physical exhibits to try make the ideas involved in the theory easier to understand. There was a soccer ball to show how big the universe was when it was much less than a second old. There were also two large boxes filled with white and black sand to show how much matter and antimatter was present in the beginning of the universe, and there was only a single grain of white sand to show how much matter is still left. The room also had screens that would show the background radiation in the universe that led to the development of the theory in the first place. The entire room was also organized in such a way that showed how the universe had changed throughout the many years since it's birth. I found this room very interesting and hope that more people had seen this unique exhibit.

Blog Post #4: Deutsches Museum

My first impression of the Deutsches Museum was that it housed a vast array of scientific technology. It included items of which their history I would have never even considered, such as weather tracking and mining. During my free time, I really enjoyed the renewable energy exhibit. With Germany as such a successful county with renewable energy, it was a perfect place to learn about their advancements. We kept seeing these blind-like windows on our trip, including at the BMW Welt. In the renewable energy exhibit, there was a poster on these. It explained how insanely smart these windows are. The slats between the window panes direct the light into the room and use the light to create electricity. When the windows are shut, the panes can absorb the light and convert it to be used to heat the space. How awesome is that??? I really enjoyed seeing the size comparison of the wind turbine blades too. I know that they are massive, but seeing a blade in front of me really put the size in perspective. I think renewable energy is a very important part of engineering. Saving our planet and becoming independent of fossil fuels is crucial for preserving the state of our planet.

Blog Post 4: Deutsches Museum Round 2

Hello fellow students and travelers,
On our last full day of the trip we went to the Deutsches Museum for the second and final time. For a few hours of our time there we toured areas related to the Industrial Revolution. Then we were given hours of free time to explore on our own, which is when I found an area that interested me greatly. The Pharmaceutics section of the museum was my favorite part of free time. I could walk around and read about cells and cell mutations, or look into "microscope" and see what a blocked artery looked like on the cell level. There was also information on medicines, from the past as well as the present. Also on display were some medical instruments. Since I don't plan to become a doctor I didn't understand what all of them were for, but they were still interesting to look at and read about. Probably the coolest part about this section of the museum was the huge cell in the middle of the room. Couldn't have missed it. We could walk into it and see parts such as the mitochondria, nucleus, etc. In the cell were also little "microscopes" in which we could look into and see what may go on inside some of the parts of the cell. I loved being able to look through past and present medical excerpts. We could see how some areas of the medical world progressed and improved. It's really amazing what we can do now with medicine.
Well, this is goodbye. Until the next adventure!
-B