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Midwest Sculpture Initiative installation
Dibble Schoolhouse Eli Stillson Log House
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Gears are important in all kinds of machines, like this one. Can you find this machine, located in the MerrimanSharp Farmhouse?
What is this machine used for? What clues helped you figure it out?
How’d I get here?
Performance magic tricks that make an object or animal disappear, reappear, transform, or reproduce are known as
manipulation.
For more magic tricks, check out One Day Wonder: April Fool’s Fun at the museum on Wednesday, April 1! From optical art illusions to magic tricks, you’ll learn how to fool even the most observant viewers. Explore our gallery exhibit Mystery, Magic, and Mayhem for inspiration.
There are dozens of clocks in the Never Enough Time gallery. Each one has many parts inside that make it work. These are some of the parts, and what they do:
Mainspring The coiled spring that provides the driving force for a mechanical clock or watch.
Gear A wheel with teeth on the edge that is made to fit in between the teeth of another gear. Together the gears move the energy from the mainspring where it needs to go.
Can you find a gear in the galleries? Draw the gear you find here:
What’s not a clock, but still keeps time?
The answers are below. See if you can find them all in the word search above!
Sundial
tells time by the shadow that the sun casts on a calibrated dial
Calendar
tells time using days, weeks, and months
Wristwatch
a clock face designed to be worn with a strap on the wrist
Metronome
used in music to keep rhythm
Hourglass
commonly uses sand to measure a few minutes, or an hour of time
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