25-07-2023 17:23 via theguardian.com

‘Think like an engineer’: Wonderlab to open at National Railway Museum

Interactive exhibits in £6m gallery aim to spark children’s imaginations and an interest in engineering “This one takes a bit more effort,” said Lorna Hogger, energetically spinning a wheel to slowly lift rubber balls into a rollercoaster network of metal tubes high in the air. They whiz round and thud out and a lesson is learned about how complicated things are often simpler than they seem.Elsewhere there is a wind tunnel, a create-your-own hydrogen rocket, fun with marb
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