When we decided to go to London for New Year's, Bill asked if we could avoid any and all castles and churches. For the last year and a half he has gone to every historical sight I've suggested (usually castles and churches), so I thought it was more than fair to accommodate his wishes.
After spending the last day of 2014 window shopping, seeing a play, fine dining, and fighting the hordes at the fireworks show, we spent the first day of 2015 doing science-y stuff.
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| Charles Babbage's differential machine |
We spent the majority of the day at the Museum of Science & Technology, where we saw Charles Babbage's early computer, created in 1822. Ada Lovelace, the daughter of Lord Byron and an amazing mathematician, was Charles Babbage's working partner. An unsung hero, she is the namesake for one of our cats.
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| Radio Shack's TRS-80 |
They also had a display with some of our childhood computers, including Radio Shack's TRS-80 and the Mac Apple computer.
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| Apple II |
Later that day, we walked across the way to the Natural History Museum where we saw a complete stegosaurus skeleton. If you look closely in the first picture, you can see a blurry Bill!
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| Bill and a Stegosaurus |
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| Stegosaurus |
We also saw a real, still-wrapped dummy. It was kinda creepy!
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| Mummy |
That evening we made our way to Leiscester Square and saw The Theory of Everything, the movie about Alan Turing and decoding the Enigma Machine at Bletchley Park. It was wall-to-wall science, all day long, and we both enjoyed every minute of it!
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