John and I have fallen in love with this wonderful museum of Arts and Crafts. Essentially it displays cool objects that illustrate a history of industrial technology,
all displayed in vintage glass cases in a series of long galleries. It's great fun.
Early calculator - Grillet's Arithmetical Machine, 1681.
How beautiful is this late 18th century circular mirror!
These kids seemed to be having a great time with a great teacher. Made me want to walk over to the cabinet to see what they'd seen.
This is a mid-19th century reeding loom. The wooden cards that direct the action of the loom reminded us of computer punch cards -- in that the action depends on the presence or absence of a hole in the card. Is this an early computer?
These weaving patterns are like computer print-outs.
John was drawn to this beautiful c. 1825 clock.
A model of the expansion of the original model of the plaster head of the Statue of Liberty, 1878. Where else will you find stuff like this?
Grandjean shorthand typewriter, 1923. Too fabulous!
A 1947 television receiver with magnifying lens. I remember seeing something similar at an uncle's home in Southern Ontario in the early 1950s.
Robot LAMA (Lavachkin Alcatel Model Autonomous). Remember these 1960s moon explorers? I do!
Every hipster's dream -- a Polaroid "Swinger" camera, Model 20 -- 1965.
In a room dedicated to automatons, we found this clockwork Magician, 1980.
John and I love the Memphis design movement: "Anna" kitchen timer, Alessi, 1999.
At one end of the museum we found "Avion 3," a bat-like airplane by Clément Ader (1889).
If I lived in Paris I would visit musée Arts et Métiers regularly and take in just a few rooms at a time, every room is so packed with cool stuff.
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