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  2. Science museum - Wikipedia

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    Entrance to the Science Museum of Virginia. A science museum is a museum devoted primarily to science.Older science museums tended to concentrate on static displays of objects related to natural history, paleontology, geology, industry and industrial machinery, etc. Modern trends in museology have broadened the range of subject matter and introduced many interactive exhibits.

  3. List of Foucault pendulums - Wikipedia

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    Brevard Museum of History & Natural Science: Jacksonville: Museum of Science & History: Miami: Miami Dade Junior College: Orlando: John Young Museum and Planetarium, now known as the Orlando Science Center: Orlando: University of Central Florida, Mathematical Sciences Building [67] Stuart: The Elliott Museum [68] Tallahassee: Florida State ...

  4. Foucault pendulum - Wikipedia

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    Foucault's pendulum in the Panthéon, Paris. The Foucault pendulum or Foucault's pendulum is a simple device named after French physicist Léon Foucault, conceived as an experiment to demonstrate the Earth's rotation.

  5. McAuliffe-Shepard Discovery Center - Wikipedia

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    The McAuliffe-Shepard Discovery Center is a science museum located in Concord, New Hampshire, United States, next door to the NHTI campus. The museum is dedicated to Christa McAuliffe, the Concord High School social studies teacher selected by NASA out of over 11,000 applicants to be the first teacher in space, and Alan Shepard, the Derry, New Hampshire, native and Navy test pilot who became ...

  6. Fault (geology) - Wikipedia

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    A fault plane is the plane that represents the fracture surface of a fault. A fault trace or fault line is a place where the fault can be seen or mapped on the surface. A fault trace is also the line commonly plotted on geologic maps to represent a fault. [3] [4] A fault zone is a cluster of parallel faults.

  7. Fault detection and isolation - Wikipedia

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    Fault detection, isolation, and recovery (FDIR) is a subfield of control engineering which concerns itself with monitoring a system, identifying when a fault has occurred, and pinpointing the type of fault and its location. Two approaches can be distinguished: A direct pattern recognition of sensor readings that indicate a fault and an analysis ...

  8. List of science museums - Wikipedia

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    Below is a list of science museums all over the world. See Science museum for definitions. Europe. Austria. Ars Electronica Center, Linz;

  9. Franklin Institute - Wikipedia

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    The Franklin Institute is a science museum and the center of science education and research in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It is named after the American scientist and statesman Benjamin Franklin. It houses the Benjamin Franklin National Memorial. Founded in 1824, the Franklin Institute is one of the oldest centers of science education and ...