Ben Franklin, FTW!

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34. That was a good article

It's unfortunate that they showed a pic of the Ben Franklin Institute of Technology in Boston but didn't bother to show the Franklin Institute Museum here in Philly.





One of the popular exhibits - "The Heart" (re-done from the one when I was a kid) -



There's also a locomotive down in the basement -



That is supposed to be re-done to look like this eventually -



They used to have a Boeing 707 out back (since removed) -



I remember they had one of those old AT&T video-phones (like the one in "2001: A Space Odyssey" ). Took 50 years to finally get the tech acceptable to the public.

The Fels Planetarium and an observatory is there too. Plus they originally did the "official" weather observations (temperature, pressure, wind, etc) before all of that was moved to the airport (that hadn't been built at the time).