Museo Nazionale Scienza e Tecnologia Leonardo da Vinci in

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, dedicated to painter and scientist

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, is the largest science and technology museum in Italy. It was opened on 15 February 1953 and inaugurated by

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. The museum, in the ancient monastery of San Vittore al Corpo in Milan, is divided into seven main departments: * Materials * Transport * Energy (including Thermal power station Regina Margherita) * Communication * Leonardo da Vinci, Art & Science * New Frontiers * Science for young people Each of these departments have laboratories, especially for children and young students. The Transport section is made up of four different parts: air, rail, water and Submarine Enrico Toti-S-506.

Materials section

The Materials section treats the life cycle of modern products from

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s to

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. Specific sections are dedicated to polymeric and synthetic materials and to basic chemical manufacturing. There is also a

metal A metal () is a material that, when polished or fractured, shows a lustrous appearance, and conducts electrical resistivity and conductivity, electricity and thermal conductivity, heat relatively well. These properties are all associated wit ...

section that illustrates the metal extraction and processing techniques and exhibits the first

electric arc furnace An electric arc furnace (EAF) is a Industrial furnace, furnace that heats material by means of an electric arc. Industrial arc furnaces range in size from small units of approximately one-tonne capacity (used in foundry, foundries for producin ...

for melting steel invented in 1898 by Ernesto Stassano.

Transport section

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The Transport section is divided in four different sections: * The ''Air transport section'' exhibits several aircraft including a Farman 1909 replica and an original Macchi MC 205 V used by the Regia Aeronautica Militare Italiana during the

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. There are also several modern military aircraft like an Italian

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, a North American F-86K and a

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. * The ''Rail Transport'' section is sited in a pavilion from the 1906 Expo with an added reconstruction of a late 19th-century railway station facade. The collection exhibits vehicles from the 19th and 20th centuries with a particular focus on the historical public transport of

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. * The ''Water transport'' section displays the bridge of the

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'' Conte Biancamano'', and the

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''Ebe'' launched in 1921. Also exhibited are a slow running torpedo (or ''Maiale'') and an explosive punt (1940) both used by the

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in the

. * The last section is dedicated to the ''Toti''-class submarine ''Enrico Toti'', built by Italian shipbuilders after the Second World War for the

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and launched in 1967.

Energy section

The Energy section is dedicated to energy sources and devices. In this part of the museum there is the Margherita thermoelectric power station (1895) and an

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industry/

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section.

Communication section

The Communication section is divided into three areas: *The ''Astronomy'' section shows several antique astronomic and topographical instruments, including two 17th-century celestial and earth globes, the Salmoiraghi

refracting telescope A refracting telescope (also called a refractor) is a type of optical telescope that uses a lens (optics), lens as its objective (optics), objective to form an image (also referred to a dioptrics, dioptric telescope). The refracting telescope d ...

, and a

Foucault pendulum The Foucault pendulum or Foucault's pendulum is a simple device named after French physicist Léon Foucault, conceived as an experiment to demonstrate the Earth's rotation. If a long and heavy pendulum suspended from the high roof above a circu ...

. *The ''Telecommunication'' section is dedicated to all forms of modern-era communication from

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telephone A telephone, colloquially referred to as a phone, is a telecommunications device that enables two or more users to conduct a conversation when they are too far apart to be easily heard directly. A telephone converts sound, typically and most ...

and wireless communication, and from

radio Radio is the technology of communicating using radio waves. Radio waves are electromagnetic waves of frequency between 3 hertz (Hz) and 300 gigahertz (GHz). They are generated by an electronic device called a transmitter connec ...

television Television (TV) is a telecommunication medium for transmitting moving images and sound. Additionally, the term can refer to a physical television set rather than the medium of transmission. Television is a mass medium for advertising, ...

, with a global view of the technical history of Italian television. *The ''Sound'' section shows the main technologies for recording and reproducing sound from the 19th century to modern times.

Leonardo da Vinci, Art & Science section

The ''

, Art & Science'' area is divided into four parts: *The

Jewelry Jewellery (or jewelry in American English) consists of decorative items worn for personal adornment such as brooches, ring (jewellery), rings, necklaces, earrings, pendants, bracelets, and cufflinks. Jewellery may be attached to the body or the ...

collection shows precious objects from stones and gems to metals, including gold and ivory jewellery. *The

section exhibits many Leonardo machines reproduced from Da Vinci drawings, including a hydraulic saw, a spinning machine, a flying machine and Leonardo's tank. The models of the collection are the fruit of a reinterpretation by a group of experts who have translated and completed his drawings. *The

Horology Chronometry or horology () is the science studying the measurement of time and timekeeping. Chronometry enables the establishment of standard measurements of time, which have applications in a broad range of social and scientific areas. ''Hor ...

collection shows the evolution of watchmaking and shows several pendulum clocks, ancient clocks, personal watches and tower mechanisms. *The

Musical Instruments A musical instrument is a device created or adapted to make musical sounds. In principle, any object that produces sound can be considered a musical instrument—it is through purpose that the object becomes a musical instrument. A person who pl ...

section exhibits instruments from the 17th to the 20th century. There is a reconstruction of a lute maker's workshop from the 17th century.

Gallery

File:20110726 Celestial globe Museo Milan 6151.jpg, A

celestial globe Celestial globes show the apparent positions of the stars in the sky. They omit the Sun, Moon, and planets because the positions of these bodies vary relative to those of the stars, but the ecliptic, along which the Sun moves, is indicated. ...

. File:050MilanoMuseoScienza.JPG, View of some trains in the museum. File:055MilanoMuseoScienza.JPG, Another view of the rail section of the museum. File:066MilanoMuseoScienza.JPG, An ''Italian Financial Guard'' helicopter. File:Republic F-84 F thundersteak - Museo della scienza e della tecnica - Milan - 01.JPG,

. File:Museo della scienza e tecnica sottomarino toti.jpg, The Submarine Enrico Toti-S-506. File:Sottomarino enrico toti - museo della scienza e della tecnica - milano - controllo per siluri.jpg, Control room for torpedoes of Submarine Enrico Toti-S-506. File:Maiale - Museo della scienza e della tecnica - Milano.jpg, An Italian ''Human Torpedo''. File:Fiat G-91 R Aircraft - Museo della Scienza e della Tecnica - Milan - 02.JPG, Fiat G-91R

Fighter aircraft Fighter aircraft (early on also ''pursuit aircraft'') are military aircraft designed primarily for air-to-air combat. In military conflict, the role of fighter aircraft is to establish air supremacy, air superiority of the battlespace. Domina ...

. File:20110726 Museo Milan 6123.jpg, Regina Margherita Thermal Power Plant. Sala Cenacolo Pietro Gilardi Museo scienza e tecnologia Milano.jpg, The Cenacolo hall, frescoed by Pietro Gilardi File:Unità centrale - Museo scienza tecnologia Milano D1260 foto.jpg,

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