Invisible wrote:
> Science is seriously interesting stuff. However, making it *look* 
> interesting is quite hard.

I can heartily recommend to anyone who comes to the New York City that 
you visit the American Museum of Natural History. The lobby, for 
example, has a herd of 13 full-grown elephants (stuffed, of course). 
It's looks kind of lost and lonely in the middle of the lobby. The cafe 
has a full-size model of a blue whale hanging from the ceiling. If you 
actually see all of it, it takes several days. There's a subway stop in 
the basement, and it's free-ish. (Donation requested, basically.)

> OK, most of those are pretty self-explanatory. But a thermometer? Who'd 
> have thought of making *that* out of a coil of wire?

It's called a bimetalic strip. ;-) Hence the need for two coils.

-- 
Darren New / San Diego, CA, USA (PST)

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