Museum Interactive Models

Earthquake Table

This fun museum interactive has an electronically vibrated soft surface for the child to build thier structure on. They can then select different earthquake amplititudes by pressing and holding one of the three red buttons down and see how long it takes for their building to fall.

Seismograph

This simple museum interactive imitates a real seismograph. If you gently shake the table then your "Earthquake" will be recorded as a glowing trail on the rotating disc.

Mist Tornado

This museum interactive stands at just 600mm and is one of the smallest versions of this highly popular interactive exhibit. The fan's speed can be adjusted by turning the knob, and depending on the speed this exhibit produces a fascinating range of effects.

Design a wind turbine

This simple and robust table-top museum interactive gives users a chance to design their own wind turbine by cutting and shaping "vanes" from sheets of Correx plastic. These can then easily be attached to the six brass rods that project from the turbines hub. The idea is to experiment with the size, shape and angle of your "vanes" to get the turbine to turn as fast of possible when the fan is activated by a push button.

Water Power

This is one of our new designs. Use the red lever to pump the water up into the upper tank. Once it reaches a certain level it will automatically siphon down onto the turbine wheel. As the wheel turns it powers the generator which is connected to a milliammeter.

Iris recognition

This interactive exhibit allows you to see the unique properties of your eye. Simply put one eye against the red eye piece and press the red button. This will allow you to watch how the muscles of your eyes react to light, making your pupil bigger or smaller. The patterns in your iris are also special as no-one else in the world will have one exactly the same as yours.

Fingerprint Recognition - Biometrics

We have several interactive exhibits that allow us to explore Biometrics. This fingerprint recognition exhibit has a red circle on the back of it and if you press the tip of your finger against it and look through the eye piece you can study the swirls and loops of your own unique pattern. Nobody else in the world will have the same pattern as is on your finger.

Ear Recognition

Lean down between the two mirrors and look into the lower one to see the reflection of the upper mirror. Move your head until the small lamp in the upper mirror is shining into your ear. This will allow you to study the patterns in the folds of your ear, which your DNA makes unique to you.

Thunder & Lightning

Conductors

An interactive model that uses specimens in the model to show that some things conduct an electric current and others do not.

Compass Correction

The compass in the middle of this mini model is surrounded by four small magnets and a stronger magnet is placed on a desk about 6 inches away.

The challenge is to adjust the smaller magnets so that the compass points to the larger external magnet.

Hovering Magnets

The hovering ring magents have blue and red coloured faces to show their south and north poles and are used to illustrate magnetic attraction and replusion.

Turning Magnets

Rotating one of the bar magnets by hand immediately causes the other one to flip round. This is a strangely appealing phenomenon to "play" with...

Electric Motor

Holding down the red button causes a green LED to flash in the battery box.

The motor's internal magnets have been removed, so it does not rotate unless the bar magnet is brought close to the coil while the current is flowing.

The direction of rotation can be reversed by reversing the magnet or by moving it to the opposite side of the coil-commutator assembly.

Hand Cranked Generator

This generator is cranked by hand and has lights that can be switched on. When the lights are on the generator needs extra effort to supply the lamps.

Heat Pump

This Heat Pump mini-interactive makes half your hand warm and the other half cool, depending which direction you crank the handle.

Cartesian Diver

Magnetic Pendulum

Using magnets in this mini interactive model the forces of magnetic replusion and attraction are illustrated by the pendulum.

Shampoo Turbulance

Watch the swirling patterns in the water as the dome is turned.

Spinning Discs

One of the patterns produces a strange, three-dimensional effect, like a wobbly cone when it is spun slowly. The other two patterns somehow cause your brain to see colours when they are spinning.
The colours are an interesting scientific mystery!

What Do You See?

The first of two optical illusions, which side of the white board is darker ?

Chaos Pendulum

In this interactive model the pendulum is spun by turning the red knob.

Each time, the pendulum does something completely different.

However carefully you try, it is impossible to make it repeat exactly the same movements.

Gyroscope

Very simple instructions come with this :-

• Hold the wheel up
• Spin the wheel with your finger
• Let go and watch the wheel

A Million Turns

An interactive model to illustrate gearing, the red handle is turned in the direction of the arrow, this turns the gears wheels.

The bigger gears have 100 teeth. The smaller gears have 10 teeth.

The gearing meas that the red wheel has to be turned a million (1,000,000) times before the 6th gear wheel turns once.

Coupled Pendulums

Two coupled pendulums, swinging one of them will set the other in motion.

Pulleys

By joining different wheels with rubber bands you can change the speed that the wheels turn.

Magnetic Fields

Using iron filings in a tube of oil and a magnet the shapes of a magentic field are neatly illustrated by this mini interactive exhibit.

Electroscope

This mini interactive model illustrates static electricity with the use of a balloon rubbed on clothes to generate a small charge.

Hanging Magnets

Hanging magnets look and feel strange! Especially when two similar poles are repelling each other.

This repulsive force is less commonly noticed when magnets are held in the hand, because they quickly tend to spin round and snap together

The Sliced Whirlpool

Make the curve in the water surface change shape in this interactive mini model.

Pressure

By squeezing the bottle the air inside the glass tube is compressed and the tube sinks in this mini model

Soap Film

This mini interactive model creates a flat bubble film that produces changing colours.

Water Tornado

Make a whirlpool in the liquid in the tube by turning the red disc. There are floating beads that can be made to do "tricks".

Packing Case

The packing cases for these mini interactive educational models are strongly made, and partitioned and lined with soft foam. Each contains the model, sign, spare parts and tools.