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"Nuts and bolts":
interactive exibits
Exhibit
development & fabrication
Designs
& performance specifications
Discovery
Disks: mobile mini-interactives
'Beam Cam' projecting video microscope
Underwater
Street Discovery Centre
Moscow
Planetarium
Sellafield
Visitor Centre
'Alternative
energy'
Earth
Science
Fixed
Discovery Disks, Glasgow
Air-table,
telescope, moon-phases
Astronomy
exhibits for Valencia
Biometrics
Magnetic
field exhibit for CERN, Geneva
Tabletop
Discovery Disks: magnetism
Tabletop
Discovery Disks: Light
More
Light interactives
"Academic"
interactives: The Energy Enzyme
"Academic
interactives": Electron beams
"Academic
interactives": Mantle geology
Working
canal-lock model
Virtual
exhibit: Ich bin einmalig
Chemistry
interactives: Chirality
Video
microscopes: Melting crystal
Push-button
quiz: Breath of life
Environmental
& biological
Cookbook
outlines of my 1992 "classical" Great Explorations interactives
Talk to me!
UK phone/fax
+44 (0) 1663 743794
Email ian@interactives.co.uk
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MINI-INTERACTIVES:
Things
that move | Invisible Forces
| Shining & seeing | Patterns
in water | Touring etc.
| Hong Kong
Installed in a school library (a short video clip)
Patterns
in water
Turn the red disc and watch what happens to the water.
Can you make a "whirlpool"? How many things can you discover
about it?
What tricks can you make the floating beads perform? What happens to the
magnetic stirrer if you try to turn it too fast?
Gently and carefully spin the tank of water.
Watch what happens to the water.
How many things can you discover about the shapes of the curves that appear
in the water surface?
Gently turn the dome and watch the swirling patterns in the water.
 
Gently press down the edges of the tank to make the little ball roll
across.
What can you discover about the swirling trail it leaves behind?
Special, shiny particles in the water show flow-patterns that are usually
invisible. Some kinds of hair shampoo also contain substances that show
flow-patterns.
With the cord, gently pull the plastic bar up out of the mixture of
water and dishwashing liquid.
What can you discover about the changing colours in the flat "bubble-film"?
The thickness of the "bubble-film" is as small as the length
of a single light wave. Thin films of oil on a wet road make similar colours.
Squeeze the bottle and watch what happens.
Notice the air inside the glass tube being squeezed smaller before it
sinks.
Does it make any difference if you squeeze the bottom of the bottle instead
of the top?
MINI-INTERACTIVES:
Things
that move | Invisible Forces
| Shining & seeing | Patterns
in water | Touring etc.
| Hong Kong
Installed in a school library (a short video clip)
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