Norwegian Museum of Science and Technology
Hands-on national museum of technology, industry and science, from early machines to an electric cannon.
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This guide to the Norwegian Museum of Science and Technology in Oslo turns on one day in March 1903, when the physicist Kristian Birkeland, better known for his northern-lights research, stood in the university's grand hall before representatives of the arms industry with a cannon that used no gunpowder. It reaches back to the letter in which he first described the idea to a future prime minister. Best heard standing beside the cannon itself.
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