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The Rosetta stone that unlocked thousands of years of Egyptian history by allowing the translation of hieroglyphics.
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The Elgin Marbles. "Purchased" in the early 1800's by Lord Elgin and brought back to London from Athens. These statues once decorated the Parthenon. We viewed them just weeks before the scandal broke about how they were cleaned in the 1930's.
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Adam shooting some info on Alexander the Great. A photo of the bust next to Adam appears on his Alexender the Great web site, www.egltd.com/alex_web, that has received over 82,000 hits since they put it up in March of '97.
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Doug in front of busts of Arisotle and the other great Greek philosophers.
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My favorite sign in all of England. In the US these guns would be surrounded by a barbed wire fence. What a difference 20 million too many lawyers makes.
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Adam and the 15" Naval guns outside the Imperial War Museum in London.
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Main entrance hall to the Imperial War Museum.
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Haunting words of Edward R. Murrow. There is a somber exhibit on the liberation of Belsen by the British troops.
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Across the street from the museum we noticed this plauque. History is around every corner in this city.
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Steph and Chari celebrate the drinking age being 18 in England.
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Our bartender pulls Doug a proper English bitter. Hand pumped from the cask and room temperature, just as God intended.
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A street sign directing traffic toward the data warehousing conference that Doug keynoted.
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Steph and Chari at our local tube stop up the block from the hotel.
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Two shots of the interior of hanger one at the Imperial War Museum at Duxford. This former WWII fighter base is now used for display of aircraft and land warfare items too large for the main museum in London.
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A B17G. This remains the only type of aircraft I've ever flown, which is quite an adventure story in itself...
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The P51 Mustang, the aircraft that changed the face of the European air war.
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A section of the Berlin wall. There is also a section outside the Imperial War Museum in London. We also recently saw a section at the USS Intrepid museum in New York.
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Adam in front of a German 88. First developed as an anti-aircraft gun, it was the most versatile, deadly and feared artillary in the conflict.
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Adam and Doug in front of one of the dioramas in the land warfare building. Very detailed dioramas from WWI through the Falklands provided realistic settings for the various vehicles and weapons.
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Doug in front of a Spitfire that was being moved. The Spitfire and the Hurricane were the two aircraft that beat back the Luftwaffe during the Battle of Britain and prevented the invasion of England. In the words of Winston Churchill, "Never has so much been owed by so many to so few..."
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Our little rental Fiat that pulled an honest 125mph on the M4.
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Fish and Chips on our last night in London. Best service and some of the best food of our stay in London on this trip.
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The cast of "Chicago." We saw this show on our last night in town. Very enjoyable musical.
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On our last day in London, I went down to the Science museum to see an exhibit on Leonardo Di Vinchi and his contemporary renaissance engineers. It was quite an experience to view his notebooks in person. I'm even more impressed by his overall brilliance than I was before. This is a full scale model of his flying machine, which was hindered by its weight.
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The exhibit featured scale, working models of various engineering triumphs that Leonardo and his contemporaries had designed. This was a ratcheting lift hoist.
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A human powered "automobile."
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A device used to lift the giant columns used in the architecture of the day.
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A three speed, reversing, oxen powered hoist. You did not have to unhitch and turn the animals in order to raise, then lower, objects.
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While there I also spent a few minutes in the "History of Computing" exhibit. This is a section of Babbage's Differential Engine, the first computer. This section was built to demonstrate that the machining processes of the day could indeed produce the design. This section works perfectly, although the entire engine, which would have been several meters long, was never completed due to a falling out between Babbage and the machinist who was building the assembly.
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This is the printer for Babbage's computer. It is being built from the original designs on-site by a team from the museum. It allows variable margins, and several thoroughly modern features.
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This is an early analog computer built by the British or military purposes.
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This is a circuit board from the ENIAC, the first general purpose programable computer in the world. It was built in the US.
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In the cab on the way to the airport.
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At dinner at the airport Sheriton in Frankfurt. Probably one of the greatest hidden meal bargains on the planet. An all you can eat buffet (very handy when traveling with teenagers) at a major city airport hotel for about $14.
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