The last museum was a really great way to end the trip. While taking the tour, I noticed different aspects we had previously learned about from other museums. We saw some evidence of the evolution of automobiles, like the first museum in Turin. We also saw communication and radio devices similar to that of Turin's radio and television museum. But even though they were repeating information we had already learned about, some facts were new. For instance, we saw a bunch of looms and we had originally learned that Jacquard was the first to create a device that was fitted to a loom to allow for patterns to be created. But at this museum, we learned that someone else had created something similar but wasn't successful, so Jacquard took the idea, expanded it, and became known as the person who created the Jacquard machine. I overall felt that this museum acted like a little bow to tie together all of the topics we had discussed to end the trip.
-- Haley
I think you are right that this museum definitely ended up being a capstone of sorts to the trip. As you said, we had already seen sections of material already; seeing all these inventions in the same place, we started to get a little bit more of a picture of how various innovations in science and technology developed both somewhat independently and as a result of further understanding of different fields.
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