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Gadgets

Crank the Biggest Gadget of All: Your Brain!

Gadgets solve problems, do work, and make us laugh.  Have you ever asked "How does that work?"  Gadgets help us unlock the secrets to everyday appliances when you take apart old machines and computers in the Gadgets Café.  There’s no age limit as both adults and kids try their hand at engineering principles.

Try to pull your own weight on the pulley chair, split a laser beam, or build a bridge!  Take in a show as the Gadgets stage provides a venue for guided exploration of physics, chemistry, engineering, and energy.  Warning: sometimes science can be loud!


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Gadgets Café
Build a Bridge
Pulley Chair Laser Table


Concepts Include

Simple Machines Aerodynamics
Forces & Motion Lasers & Optics
Electricity & Simple Electronics Gear Ratios
Magnets & Electromagnets Structures


Resource Links

How Stuff Works! Scientist Biographies
Physics 2000 The National Inventors Hall of Fame
How Things Work Invention Dimension

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Parent's Tip
This exhibit has ideas for young scientists

Infants   Infants

Toddlers   Toddlers

Preschoolers   Preschoolers


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