Older news 23.12. 9.00–17.30 24.12. closed 25.12. 13.00–18.00 26.12. 10.00–18.00 27.12. 10.00–18.00 28.-30.12. 9.00–17.30 31.12. 9.00–14.00 1.1. 13.00–18.00  The exhibition is a collaborative effort between the National Technical Museum and the National Cheng Kung University Museum of Taiwan. It is dedicated both to taiwanese traditional city culture, modern technology and the oceanic culture. Thus I C Taiwan introduces visitors to the unique culture of Taiwan, which is the maritime crossroad of East Asia, through selected chapters from history, culture, academics, and industry development.  Exhibition of the winning books from 2014.  This event celebrates the 200th anniversary of the first presentation of Josef Božek’s steam car in 1815. Three days will be filled with an exhibition ride of the replica of Božek’s steam car and an accompanying programme in cooperation with the Czech Technical University.  The exhibition summarizes 150 years of steamboat transportation on the Vltava River. Steamship models, historical documents, as well as paintings depicting steamboats on the river Vltava by famous Czech painters like Jakub Schikaneder, Bohumil Kubišta and Josef Šíma are on display.  The exhibition commemorates the first presentation of Josef Božek’s steam car in 1815 and presents the development of steam engines from the beginning of the 18th century to the 1950s.  The bombing of Czech and Moravian cities during the Second World War is still a vivid topic. The exhibition throws a light on air raids by the Red Army on the first day of peace, May 9th, 1945.  One of the most acclaimed Czech writers, Karel Čapek was also a dramatist, poet, translator, art critic, philosopher and esthetician. The exhibition presents Karel Čapek’s photographic work.  The Port of Trieste was one of the first industrial ports in the world, together with Hamburg, Buenos Aires, Calcutta and Genoa, being equipped with a hydrodynamic plant. The water under very high pressure of up to 54 atm produced by the plant, was distributed into the port through 6,500 metres of underground pipes, directly feeding the cranes installed on the quay, the warehouses and the freight elevators. The plant consisted of a battery of ten steam boilers, four main pumping steam engines and auxiliary pumps manufactured by the company of Breitfeld Daněk & Co. of Prague.
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National Technical Museum Kostelní 42, 170 78 Monday: closed
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