The Whole Human History In One Museum (part4)

Now it is time for technology. That is a new hall of cars from the 50s and 60s. A little car Heinkel.

Consumer technics.

Old TVs.

The Soviet TV "Leningrad".

The beautiful automatic machine for records.

Cinemacameras.

Soviet cameras.

Motorcycles and motorbikes of these years.

The photoprinter Siemens T 37 .

A calculator.

Radio sets.

A kitchen interior.

Then goes the hall of astronomy.

Herschel's telescope weighs 40 feet and was the biggest one in its time. Hershel found satellites of Saturn and Uranus by using it.

Globes of the stars sky.

The museum contains a great number of telescopes of different nations and different times.

The spectrometer.

An observatory in the Middle Ages.

Models of the modern observatories.

A mirror taken from a real telescope.

The hall of optics.

Modules show how light is refracted in different lens. Rays are replaced by lasers for better visualization.

The light refracting in glass.

The lens enlarges in the air but in the liquid medium the refraction is practically unseen.

An optical illusion.

The staging of spectacles selling.

Microscopes.

Tourists can watch cells or little insects.

The cosmos hall. The rocket A4/V2, 1944.

The compartment of the international space station.

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A plastic cylider for tourists' safety.

Helicopter fans.

The cargo helicopter.

The prow of a passenger air plane.

Engines.

A dispatcher room.

Propellers.

The module of the Soviet attack plane"IL-2"that was made for volunteers' money during the Second World War. 

A centrifuge.

A Soviet pilot.

Pilots' equipment.

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And that is the aeronautics hall. Here tourists can see the history of air navigation from kites till modern air planes.

Kites.

Ballon modules.

Modules of the first air planes.

Copies are life-sized.

A dirigable pilot.

Air planes of the 20th century.

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Deutsches Museum is one of the biggest museums of science and technology in the world. Practically all the evolution from ancient times till nowadays is shown here. The museum is located in Munich and contains more than 50 exhibition halls with the total area of 47000 sq.metres. It is really huge, it has 5 floors. A ticket costs 8,5 eu.

This is the central hall with ancient ships and sailers.

Sailer modules with great detalization.

Ships made from bones.

Bends.

The ship interior.

The wheelhouse.

"Titanic".

The engine room. 

A cutter.

Screws.

The special pool for little boats.

There are a lot of dioramas, that is stagings of real life moments of sailers.

Navy measuring instruments.

Globes and rules for coordinate finding.

The bay diorama.

Military ships.

The module of one of the first submarines.

The whaling stand.

Ancient boats.

A real screw.

Anchors.

A submarine.

Torpedoes.

The Deutsch submarine.

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An abandoned military base of Saxa Vord. The military men left the island in 2005 and its population dropped from 700 to 500 people.

Puffins.

There are so many puffins on the neighboring islands that they are eaten. Their heart is considered delicacy.

Baltasound, the capital of Unst.

The northernmost post office in Britain.

The Baltasound Springers Pub is located in the courtyard of the hotel.

Everything's very laconic inside. If you look at the calendar over the bar you will see that the birthdays of all the 500 Baltasound's residents are marked there. All of them come to celebrate their birthdays to the only pub on the island.

Some more pictures from Hermaness.

This place is called Saito. It's famous for the fact that the albatross named Albert flew here for 15 years. But as you probably know, no albatrosses should ever be in the Northern Hemisphere. 

The helicopter of the Coast Guard flies above the island several times a day .

The end of all roads.

An inhabited area.

The northernmost beach.

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The lighthouse isn't abandoned. It works automatically as all lighthouses of Britain.

Beauty. Precipices. Clouds. And a wavy ocean.

One can often see corpses of animals there. Sorry, but there are lots of them...

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These are large arctic skuas. Birds prefer taking away the other animals' prey. Their world's largest colony lives here, in Hermanesse.

The locals advise to move carefully here as the birds defend their nests and can attack you

But besides the skuas there are hundreds of gannets. They are huge birds with a wingspread of up to 180 cm.

The height of the cliffs is quite impressive, about 200 m.

The water is so clean here.

And this is the fulmar petrel.

There are almost no people in the reserve but lots of sheep...

Who walk along the very edge of the Earth.

From here one can already see the Muckle Flugga Lighthouse, till 1995 - the most northerly inhabited point in Britain.

These are the remains of the hut demolished by the hurricane. Actually, Hermaness can sometimes be quite a dangerous place, especially in winter. Ten years ago, on December 31, two girls died in the fog and hurricane. There were some other deaths when people fell from the 200-meter cliffs. 

The view on the South.

Gannets are everywhere.

Outsta - the last piece of the British land. No land is further from it.