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- British Lawnmower Museum - A collection of 300 lawn mowing machines, restored to pristine collection. Includes exhibits, lawnmowers of the rich and famous, and lawnmower racing. Located Lanacashire, England.
www.lawnmowerworld.co.uk/lmuseum
- Cambridge Museum of Technology - Preserved Victorian pumping station. Includes functional steam engines and historical engineering items.
www.museumoftechnology.com
- Cruquius Pumping Museum Home Page - Exhibition about the drainage of the Dutch Haarlemmermeer Polder. It has the largest single steam cylinder of the world and several other steam pumping engines. On the site is an instructive animation about the working of the big Cornish Steam Engine.
home.planet.nl/~gisolfr
- Devil's Rope Museum - Barbed wire history, identification, hobby, books and educational information. Located in McClean, Texas.
www.barbwiremuseum.com/DevilsRopeMuseum.htm
- Gasimuseum - Zurich, Switzerland museum features a fully restored steam-dynamo-set built 1904 by Sulzer and Maschinenfabrik Oerlikon.
www.tgvzu.ch/index_e.htm
- Inventors Museum - Virtual museum with biographies and pictures of dozens of inventors and inventions.
www.inventorsmuseum.com
- Kew Bridge Steam Museum - Museum houses a collection of giant pumping engines in a Victorian waterworks on the Thames. The engines include the largest running beam engine in the world and are in steam every weekend and bank holiday. Also features the Water for Life gallery, a display of the history of water supply. Web site describes the major exhibits and provides visitor information.
www.cre.canon.co.uk/~davide/kbsm
- Technopolis Science Center Belgium - Belgian science and technology center with over 250 interactive exhibits.
www.technopolis.be
- The Museum of Power - Overview and pictures of the museum dedicated to all forms of power, from steam to electric, housed in the Steam Pumping Station at Langford in Essex.
www.museumofpower.org.uk
- The Tech Museum of Innovation, San Jose, California - New museum of technology wired into the heart of Silicon Valley. Web site has extensive online exhibits and links.
www.thetech.org/exhibits_events/online
- The Technical Museum - Bucharest museum featuring technology exhibits including steam engines and an electrical tram engine.
www.cimec.ro/Muzee/mteh/mteh_eng.htm
- Westonzoyland Pumping Station - The museum of steam power and land drainage in Somerset, England.
www.btinternet.com/~wzlet/index.htm
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