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National Science Museum

Maynooth, Ireland (Kildare)
Address St. Patrick's College
 
 
Floor area unfortunately not known yet  
 
Museum typ Exhibition
Science Museums in general
  • Chemistry
  • Typewriter, calculating and coding
  • Surveying Equipment
  • Wire- & tape recording
  • Electricity / Magnetism
  • Electric motors/generators/pumps
  • Morse technology
  • Measuring Instruments, Lab Equipment
  • Gramophone (no electrical sound transmission)
  • Electrical Applications
  • Physics
  • Appliances (Scales, Stamping, etc.)

Opening times
 June, July & August: Wednesday 14.00 - 16.00; Sunday 14.00 - 18.00;
October - April: by appointment

Admission
Status from 02/2019
 Free entry, donations welcome.
Contact
eMail:niall.mckeith may.ie   
Homepage
to Location / Directions
www.maynoothuniversity.ie/faculty-science-engineering/news/national-science-museum-summer-opening-hours
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Location / Directions
N53.380442° W6.595210°N53°22.82652' W6°35.71260'N53°22'49.5912" W6°35'42.7560"
Maynooth is located on the R148 road between Leixlip and Kilcock, with the M4 motorway bypassing the town. Other roads connect the town to Celbridge, Clane, and Dunboyne.

Maynooth is also on the Dublin to Sligo rail line and is served by a commuter train service.

Public transit access Maynooth Dublin Bus routes: 66, 67

Some example model pages for sets you can see there:

EU: Unknown Europe Machine de Wimshurst influence machine generic (1883-1950??)
USA: Webster Co., The, Electronic Memory 18-1R (1950?)
Description

The museum houses early scientific instruments, especially those of the Reverend Professor Nicholas Callan (1799-1864)

"Callan's major claim to fame is as the inventor of the induction coil. Following earlier experiments, he discovered in 1836 that, when a current sent by battery through a "primary" coil (a small number of turns of thick copper wire around a soft-iron core) was interrupted, a high voltage current was produced in an unconnected "secondary" coil (a large number of turns of fine wire). Callan sent a replica of his coil to William Sturgeon (1783-1850) in London in 1837, and it was exhibited to members of the Electrical Society there to their great amazement."

He also invented the "Maynooth Battery"

The museum houses the induction coil used On July 20 1898 by Marconi to transmit the results of the Kingstown (now Dún Laoghaire) Regatta to the Harbour Master's house (Moran House) by Radio using Morse Code. This was the first ever use of radio to report a sporting event.
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