Science

(set: $med_scene to 1) You took a picture of a Section of a miniature hospital including kitchen and theatre. It looks almost real! <img src="https://coimages.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk/images/3/636/large_A603147__0012_.jpg" width="500"> Kitchen, operating theatre, boardroom and office block, model, part of miniature hospital made for publicity for King Edward's Hospital Fund for London. This is a section of a miniature hospital made by the King Edward’s Fund for London, a charity that raised money for voluntary hospitals in the city. They hoped that seeing the model would help the public understand the importance of modern hospitals, and develop a sense of responsibility for maintaining them. Public support was essential for the survival of voluntary hospitals during the economic hardship of the interwar years. It was built as a scale model of a 1930s hospital, with everything sixteen times smaller than real life. It is time to go on to the next exhibit. Onward! To the maths lab! [[Enter the maths exhibition -> mathsroom]]

(set: $skull to 1) \ You took a picture of an Ivory model of a human skull with moving parts! (text-style: "shudder")[Creepy]. <img src="https://coimages.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk/images/2/499/large_A641295__0001_.jpg" width="500"> (text-style: "italic") [Ivory model of a skull, stylized, with moving eyes, tongue and mandible, operated by a metal mechanism contained within the skull This is a model of a human skull made in ivory. The eyes, tongue and the lower jaw move when the cylinder at the base is pushed.] It is time to go on to the next exhibit. Onward! To the maths lab! [[Enter the maths exhibition -> mathsroom]]

(set: $iron_lung to 1)\ \ You took a picture of the Drinker iron lung respirator - cool! <img src="https://coimages.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk/images/3/537/large_1982_1449__0001_.jpg" width="500"> (text-style: "italic") [Named after its inventor, Philip Drinker (1894-1972), this is an example of one of the first iron lungs or cabinet respirators. First used in 1928, in the United States, iron lungs were originally developed to treat gas inhalation victims, but were also used extensively to treat patients whose chest muscles were paralysed from diseases such as polio. Patients were encased in the large, heavy cabinet. Air at alternating pressures was pumped into the chamber causing the lungs to inflate and deflate so the person could breathe. Brought to the United Kingdom in 1930, the Drinker iron lung was only made by one company, Siebe Gorman & Co. Ltd. They were experts in making air tight chambers for divers. By the late 1930s, the Drinker iron lung was replaced in the United Kingdom by a modified version, known as the Both iron lung. ] It is time to go on to the next exhibit. Onward! To the maths lab! [[Enter the maths exhibition -> mathsroom]]

(set: $maths_pic to 0) Wow. Who would have thought maths would make such a good visual exhibit? Where to look first?! Do you find maths interesting? Or would you rather just [[head on? -> teacher]] (link-reveal: "Is it a typewriter?")[ (set: $maths_pic to 1) [[<img src="https://coimages.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk/images/34/696/large_1980_1200__0007_.jpg" width="300"> ->enigma-img]] ] (link-reveal: "A thing with a lot of dials")[ (set: $maths_pic to 1) [[<img src="https://coimages.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk/images/58/737/large_1876_1129__0002_.jpg" width="300"> -> tide-img]] ] (link-reveal: "Anamorph-whatnow?")[ (set: $maths_pic to 1) [[<img src="https://coimages.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk/images/21/777/large_1948_0326_0001__0001_.jpg" width="300"> -> anamorphosis-img]] ] (link-reveal: "Could be part of a clock...")[ (set: $maths_pic to 1) [[<img src="https://coimages.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk/images/16/567/large_1985_2077__0001_.jpg" width="300"> ->astrolabe-img]] ]

(set: $leeches to 1) \ You took a picture of a Pharmacy leech jar. Leeches! For sucking your blood. That's right. <img src="https://coimages.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk/images/2/425/large_a637617.jpg" width="500"> (text-style: "italic")[Pharmacy leech jar, marbled and gilt earthenware, perhaps Staffordshire, English, 1830-1870 Leeches were used in bloodletting – a practice once carried out to treat a wide range of diseases and medical conditions. This jar was used to hold leeches which would have been on sale to medical practitioners. They are a type of worm with suckers at both ends of the body although only the frontal sucker, which has teeth, is used to feed. Once attached to a living body, they feed on blood. They can live for quite a while between meals, so the lid has holes in the top to allow air into the jar. Leeches were such a popular treatment that by 1830 their demand outstripped the supply. Leeches are again being used today following plastic and reconstructive surgery as they help restore blood flow and circulation.] It is time to go on to the next exhibit. Onward! To the maths lab! [[Enter the maths exhibition -> mathsroom]]

(set: $eyes to 1) \ You took a picture of a Set of fifty artificial eyes. Whoa! It's like these eyes are staring right back at your camera! From all angles. (text-style: "shudder")[Creepy]. <img src="https://coimages.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk/images/3/769/large_a660037__0002_.jpg" width="500"> Liverpool, England, 1900-1940 (text-style: "italic")[Set of 50 artificial glass eyes, all shapes and sizes, by E. Muller, 26 St. James Road, Liverpool, England, 1900-1940 Have you read Roald Dahl’s The Twits? If so, you’ll know Mrs Twit, a very memorable glass eye wearer. Except she was not always wearing it – like the time she put it in Mr Twit’s beer glass to frighten him. But what was it really like to choose and wear an artificial eye? In the early 1900s your eye surgeon would send you to an optician, or an ocularist – someone who specialized in making and fitting prosthetic eyes. You’d have to pay for the eye, so what would be the most important factor in your choice? You’d probably go for a combination of comfort, natural appearance, and match to your skin tone and other eye. Why were they laid out in a box like this? Ocularists had to compete for customers, and wanted to impress both the buyer and the surgeons who sent them there. Demonstrating their wide range of stock – or craftsmanship for custom-made eyes – was essential for making a sale. Ocularists also made home visits so that you could try them on in private. Artificial eyes are now free on the UK’s National Health Service. The shops and mail order services have closed. Today technicians and eye fitters work together to produce a perfectly matched prosthetic eye made from a special hardwearing plastic. The boxes of glass eyes are now museum objects, but imagine the fun Mrs Twit could have had with them.] It is time to go on to the next exhibit. Onward! To the maths lab! [[Enter the maths exhibition -> mathsroom]]

(set: $enigma to 1) \ You took a picture of a three-ring Enigma cypher machine in oak wood transit case! Wow! It was made in 1934 in Germany. <img src="https://coimages.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk/images/34/696/large_1980_1200__0007_.jpg" width="500"> (text-style: "italic") [Three-ring Enigma cypher machine complete in wooden transit case, together with original German battery. The Enigma machine was patented in 1918 by the German engineer Arthur Scherbius (1878-1929), and produced commercially from 1923. The German government, impressed by its security, acquired the rights to the machine and adapted it for military use. Throughout World War II, Germany and its allies encrypted military messages using Enigma machines and, by 1945, over 40,000 such machines were in use. The Germans considered the Enigma code to be unbreakable but, thanks to combined Allied efforts, the codebreakers at Bletchley Park in Bedfordshire, the British army's intelligence centre, managed to intercept and decypher the code.] The museum is about to close... Time to get back to Ms Smart and show her our pictures and tell her what we learned! Hopefully we'll get a good grade. Let's head back to [[Reception -> teacher]]

(set: $tide to 1) \ You took a picture of Thomson's (Lord Kelvin) First Tide Predicting Machine from 1876. He invented it himself. <img src="https://coimages.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk/images/34/696/large_1980_1200__0007_.jpg" width="500"> (text-style: "italic") [A tide-predicting machine was a special-purpose mechanical analog computer of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, constructed and set up to predict the ebb and flow of sea tides and the irregular variations in their heights – which change in mixtures of rhythms, that never (in the aggregate) repeat themselves exactly.[1] Its purpose was to shorten the laborious and error-prone computations of tide-prediction. Such machines usually provided predictions valid from hour to hour and day to day for a year or more ahead. The first tide-predicting machine, designed and built in 1872-3, and followed by two larger machines on similar principles in 1876 and 1879, was conceived by Sir William Thomson (who later became Lord Kelvin).] The museum is about to close... Time to get back to Ms Smart and show her our pictures and tell her what we learned! Hopefully we'll get a good grade. Let's head back to [[Reception -> teacher]]

\(set: $anamor to 1) \ You took a snapshot of an anamorphosis painting of Perspective View of a Ship Model! It was made some time between 1744 and 1774 somewhere in Europe by Willem van de Velde. <img src="https://coimages.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk/images/21/777/large_1948_0326_0001__0001_.jpg" width="500"> But what the hell is an anamorphosis painting? Anamorphosis is a distorted projection or perspective requiring the viewer to occupy a specific vantage point, use special devices or both to view a recognizable image, in this case a ship. (text-style: "italic")[An anamorphosis painting of a perspective stern view of a ship model / Artist unknown, c.1744-1774. Oil on panel; 43.5 x 52.5 cm in gilded frame, 53.5 x 62 x 4.3 cm. Formerly attributed to 'Van de Velde'. Panel is made from three pieces of wood, the paint overlaid. Painted viewing circle encloses an image of a woman's head. Ship model is of French origin; mounted upon a marbled tabletop. With cylindrical mirror and anamorphic prints.] The museum is about to close... Time to get back to Ms Smart and show her our pictures and tell her what we learned! Hopefully we'll get a good grade. Let's head back to [[Reception -> teacher]]

(set: $astrolabe to 1) \ You took a picture of an Islamic astrolabe! Excellent choice! It was made 1666-1667 in Lahore by Jamal al-Din ibn Muquin. <img src="https://coimages.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk/images/16/567/large_1985_2077__0001_.jpg" width="500"> (text-style: "italic") [Islamic planispheric astrolabe in brass, diameter 25 cm, with rete, two plates, alidade, alidade, pin and horse, made by Jamal al-Din ibn Muquin, at Lahore, Pakistan, in 1077 AH (= 1666-7 CE). Inside of mater shows map locating Mecca with qibla of 17 locations. Zoomorphic characters on rete. Made around 1666, this brass Islamic astrolabe was made by Jamal al-Din at Lahore, Pakistan. This front view shows the very ornate moveable fretwork plate called the rete that denotes star positions by short curved pointers. The astrolabe is in essence a model of the universe that an astronomer could hold in their hands. Popular in Medieval and Renaissance Europe, its many uses included timekeeping, astrology and surveying. The astrolabe is a two-dimensional depiction of the heavens whose layout is achieved using the mathematical technique of stereographic projection. From its origins in the Ancient World, Islamic astronomers developed the astrolabe from where it spread to Europe.] The museum is about to close... Time to get back to Ms Smart and show her our pictures and tell her what we learned! Hopefully we'll get a good grade. Let's head back to [[Reception -> teacher]]

(set: $grade to 0) \(if: $med_pic is 1)[(set: $grade to $grade + 1)] \(if: $maths_pic is 1)[(set: $grade to $grade + 1)] \\ (align: "<==")["Hello, Ms. Smart!"] (align: "==>")["Hello! I hope you had a good time. Let's see then, what did you discover?"] \(if: $med_scene is 1)[<img src="https://coimages.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk/images/3/636/large_A603147__0012_.jpg" width="500">] \(if: $skull is 1)[<img src="https://coimages.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk/images/2/499/large_A641295__0001_.jpg" width="500">] \(if: $iron_lung is 1)[<img src="https://coimages.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk/images/292/664/medium_1990_0395_0001__0001_.jpg" width="500">] \(if: $eyes is 1)[<img src="https://coimages.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk/images/3/769/large_a660037__0002_.jpg" width="500">] \(if: $leeches is 1)[<img src="https://coimages.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk/images/2/425/large_a637617.jpg" width="500">] \(if: $enigma is 1)[<img src="https://coimages.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk/images/34/696/large_1980_1200__0007_.jpg" width="500">] \(if: $tide is 1)[<img src="https://coimages.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk/images/58/737/large_1876_1129__0002_.jpg" width="500">] \(if: $anamor is 1)[<img src="https://coimages.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk/images/21/777/large_1948_0326_0001__0001_.jpg" width="500">] \(if: $astrolabe is 1)[<img src="https://coimages.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk/images/16/567/large_1985_2077__0001_.jpg" width="500">] \(if: $grade is 0)[(set: $grade to "C")] \(if: $grade is 1)[(set: $grade to "B")] \(if: $grade is 2)[(set: $grade to "A")] (if: $grade is "A")[(align: "==>")["I'm impressed! You took a picture in every exhibit! I will give you an A for this effort. Well done!"]] \ (if: $grade is "B")[(align: "==>")["That's nice, I like your work. It is unfortunate that you did not take a closer look at something in every exhibit. Still, you did well and I give you a B."]] \ (if: $grade is "C")[(align: "<==")["Funny story: I dropped my phone on the way out and now all my pictures seem to have fallen out! I cannot find any of them!"]] (if: $grade is "C")[(align: "==>")["Sigh. Well at least you made it to the trip. I guess you get a pass."]] \ Congratulations. You made it out of the museum and did not die. Your final grade for this class is $grade.

Welcome to your school trip to the Science Museum! Your teacher Ms. Smart has given you a special task: If you want a good grade, you will have to find her some interesting objects in the museum and take a snapshot of them. Find something interesting and impress her. Off we go! (align: "=><==")["See you later, Ms Smart!"] (align: "===><=")["Yes! And don't forget to bring me good pics!"] [[Enter -> lobby]]

(set: $med_pic to 0) You are in a room full of medical equipment. You look around. Step closer to take a look at the items and decide which one you want to photograph. (Click on the ones that sound interesting to see more.) You can take a snapshot by clicking on the image of the item. But be careful, you can only take one picture. Do you find medicine interesting? Or would you rather just [[go to the next room to see what is in there? -> mathsroom]] (link-reveal: "A doll house")[ (set: $med_pic to 1) [[<img src="https://coimages.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk/images/3/636/large_A603147__0012_.jpg" width="300"> ->med-scene-img]] ] (link-reveal: "A skull")[ (set: $med_pic to 1) [[<img src="https://coimages.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk/images/2/499/large_A641295__0001_.jpg" width="300"> ->skull-img]] ] (link-reveal: "A metal coffin")[ (set: $med_pic to 1) [[<img src="https://coimages.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk/images/3/537/large_1982_1449__0001_.jpg" width="300"> -> iron-lung-img]] ] (link-reveal: "Pretty jar") [ (set: $med_pic to 1) [[<img src="https://coimages.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk/images/2/425/large_a637617.jpg" width="300"> -> leech-img]] ] (link-reveal: "Eyes without a face") [ (set: $med_pic to 1) [[<img src="https://coimages.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk/images/3/769/large_a660037__0002_.jpg" width="300"> -> eyes-img]] ]

On your way in you meet some other teenagers hanging around in the lobby. They greet you and you start chatting. They ask if you wanna go for a smoke in the courtyard. They've got a key to the staff yard. Will you [[go and have a smoke? -> yard]] Or will you be a good kid and [[head into the exhibition on your own? -> medroom]]

Turns out those are some really cool kids. You hang, you smoke, you talk about your favourite bands. And before you know it, the day has passed. You have a lot of cool music to check out. But you did not take any pictures. Oh well, who needs science when you can have lung cancer? [[Head back to meet Ms Smart and face the music -> teacher]]

Welcome to our little Science Museum game! All content (unless otherwise indicated) is taken from the website of the <a href="https://collection.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk/" target="_blank">Science Museum Group</a>. You can visit their site or go to one of their museums in real life! [[Start the game! ->entrance]]