At the Hungarian Electrical Engineering Museum, meet a security guard downstairs who sends you into the museum to meet an old man in a lab coat, busy entering data on an old PC, he'll take your entry fee. Then he'll demonstrate generators and motors from the 19th Century, speaking only Hungarian to describe the effects and voltages, and he'll tell you to stand back, preparing you only mildly for the noisiest of cracking electrical currents. It's the dream science lab distanced from the protected learning in schools at present - thrilling. They also have an extensive display of light bulbs through the ages, switches, the earliest washing machine and some beautiful neons outside. And don't miss the amazing electrotechnical posters hanging in the stairwell.
It also has the world’s largest supply of electricity-consumption meters.
I liked these light switches even more when I noticed they were all,
for some reason, labelled 'tart'
All photographs taken by me on my second Pentax Spotmatic II
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