We asked Curator of Time, Transport and Navigation, David Rooney to tweet some of the hidden gems in the Making the Modern World gallery.
Looking over our Making the Modern World gallery as we hand over tweeting to curator @rooneyvision for his #MMWTour pic.twitter.com/h58Zv7zWpW
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The full tour can be seen here, but we’ve pick out a few highlights for you below…
Hi, I'm curator David Rooney. I'll be tweeting through 250 years of science and technology used in making the modern world #MMWTour
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Opened in 2000, it is home to 100 of the most important objects ever made, icons of the modern world #MMWTour pic.twitter.com/MT6P4QYDfB
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But alongside them are 1000 less famous objects that give real depth to the story. It's the unsung stars I'll mostly be tweeting #MMWTour
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We start with a clock. This clock, with state of the art 1780s precision engineering, made for George III #MMWTour pic.twitter.com/Kiz518XBnK
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Now at end of its life, not the clean machine famous on £5. This was a working machine & it bears the scars #MMWTour pic.twitter.com/9tLfVo4QNb
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Next is this working model of an 1875 engineering workshop. It totally rocks #MMWTour https://t.co/Jz7WLMYixX
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A modest object, but heartbreaking. A porcelain bowl pulled from Hiroshima after first atomic bomb dropped #MMWTour pic.twitter.com/ZkOYjcUhGC
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Next is Sierra Susie. She has look of resigned suffering after being flung into concrete walls all her life #MMWTour pic.twitter.com/2rK6n7dtoK
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We finish as we started with a clock. A prototype Clock of the Long Now, telling time for 10,000 years #MMWTour pic.twitter.com/MR0z1d6NWh
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And we are back. Thanks @rooneyvision for an excellent #MMWTour. We'll be storifying the tweets shortly.
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The full tour can be seen here
Thanks to all of you who followed the tour, and you can discover more about Making the Modern World here.
Good example of why museums are awesome. https://t.co/k4rr8Qw1WY (via @alicebell )
— Kishani Widyaratna (@KishWidyaratna) August 16, 2013
The @sciencemuseum twitter #MMWTour is great so far…so many developments rooted in materials science and engineering
— Richard Johnston (@DrRichJohnston) August 16, 2013
Loving the @sciencemuseum's #MMWTour #learningisgoodforthesoul #scienceiscool
— TannahLouise (@TannahLouise) August 16, 2013