{"id":9531,"date":"2026-01-09T05:36:51","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T05:36:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/technomads.maginei.com\/?p=9531"},"modified":"2026-01-09T05:36:51","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T05:36:51","slug":"london-day-17-the-science-museum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/technomads.maginei.com\/?p=9531","title":{"rendered":"London Day 17 – The Science Museum"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

This place was fantastic for a nerd like me. The London museums really are the best (as far as I’ve seen anyways). I wish I had more time to go through the entire museum.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I should read a book on Watt. What a legend in the field of energy, but not a perfect person at all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A comedy jab at scientists in the Industrial Age<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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This is a painting of a iron forge over a hundred years ago. What a toxic place to work!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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As a child I had a trains book with these engines in it. These go way back in the history of steam engines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Women participating in the war effort in England in WW2<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Reminds me of Mr. Handy in Fallout<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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I think this was some sort of lunar lander mockup<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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This is a FUSION reactor<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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To the young people out there, you put your phone on that thing with the keyboard<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The good ‘ol days where you could make a living by being good at arithmetic<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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This place was fantastic for a nerd like me. The London museums really are the best (as far as I’ve…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9604,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-london"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/technomads.maginei.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9531","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/technomads.maginei.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/technomads.maginei.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technomads.maginei.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technomads.maginei.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9531"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/technomads.maginei.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9531\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9655,"href":"https:\/\/technomads.maginei.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9531\/revisions\/9655"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technomads.maginei.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/technomads.maginei.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technomads.maginei.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technomads.maginei.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}