Saturday, May 9, 2015

1001 Invention Museum (3 May 2015, Sunday)










Video found at entrance of the Museum 




Once we managed to get into the Museum, we went into a room.



Introduction (low quality)


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Library of Secrets video (with English subtitles)



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After that, we were led out of the room, and were shown a very huge structure, which is Al-Jazari clock (It is HUGE!)

Al-Jazari clock (low quality) 


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Better explanation of the clock
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Moving on to the exhibitions

The woman who acted as Mariam Al-Astrulabi, talked about her invention (astrolabe)


A moving picture of her

More about Mariam Al-Astrulabi

(low quality vid)

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Match the English words with their ancient roots (which can be Arabic, Persian or Hindi)

























































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