Make a special visit to the Museum to see our major exhibit on communications. It is the largest exhibit of its kind in Canada, illustrating the history of electric and electronic communications in Canada. We use our rich collection of artifacts to show how our modes of communications have evolved through the 19th and 20th centuries and will continue to evolve in the future! Explore the evolution of communications through the telegraph, telephone, radiocommunications, radio and TV broadcasting, and discover the lives of Canadian inventors such as Alexander Graham Bell and Reginald Fessenden. Come see technology you might not have tried before, such as Virtual Reality, the CD-ROM, SchoolNet, the Vista phone, the Fax machine, Video Conferencing !
The gradual introduction of new technologies into the home changed the ways we perform housework. Discover the impact electricity and other services have had on routine tasks, from the turn of the century to today. Watch a demonstration of an early washing machine and learn how electricity was sold to farmers. Find out what consequences these changes brought to family life. And have a peek at what the future home will look like. The focus of this long-term exhibit is on the evolution of domestic appliances and their impact on gender roles in the home, in particular on the role of women.
October 9: OPENING OF "EYE SPY" EXHIBIT (until September 27, 1998)
Do you know when the camera was first used for espionage? Or that ties, hats and watches can have concealed clicking cameras? Find out about covert photography, what it is used for and how to locate a hidden camera. You'll learn how photography has evolved and discover its various uses, from gaining business intelligence to ensuring security or providing interesting novelties.
Cross the Museum in a diagonal direction to "Log
On". You'll find a room full of PC and Macintosh
computers, an "Internet Café" (no coffee, but
what a menu!) and exhibits showing the rapid evolution of
computers from lab to lap, big to small, slow to fast,
expensive to affordable. Try out all kinds of software
and Cds and surf the Internet. You've never done it?
Now's the time to try! And there's always something new!
This gallery comprised of portraits and short biographies
honours Canadians who have made outstanding contributions
to science and engineering over a long period of time.
The Hall of Fame was established in 1991 to celebrate
Canadian achievements and promote careers in science,
engineering and technology.
This captivating exhibit spotlights the science of
navigation and the evolution of marine technology over
the years. It displays a range of artifacts and objects
including 14 models of vessels dating from the 1800s to
the present, parts of real ships and actual objects used
by sailors, navigational instruments as old as an
astrolabe, objects excavated from the wreck of the
Machault (1758), an opposed piston Doxford deisel marine
engine (ca 1930), and an interactive inviting you to
"Take Command" of a Canadian Coast Guard ship
navigating through ice fields.
The Locomotive Hall contains four huge steam locomotives,
some of which allow access to the cabs, a caboose, a
business car, number boards, and computerized questions
and answers about Canadian railways. Sound effects give
the feeling of live locomotives. The engines are
meticulously restored, with polished rods and with
lighted number boards and class lights.
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