The Best of the Dentsches Museum - Intriguing Inventions and Masterpieces from the Worlds of Science and Technology (Hardcover, illustrated edition)

Celebrating the centenary of the world's largest interactive science museum, this opulent volume offers a history of astonishing discoveries as it takes readers through the museum's countless treasures. Founded by German engineer Oskar von Miller in 1903, the Deutsches Museum in Munich was designed as a place of learning and entertainment. Today it continues to be a center of cutting-edge developments as it constantly modernizes to follow recent achievements in science and technology. With more than six hundred illustrations, this book shows the museum's matchless collection, while documenting the building's history and the collection's dynamic evolution. Filled with information about the most exciting international discoveries in the fields of the physical and natural sciences, from acoustics to zeppelins, mining to hydraulics, this book is a visual delight for anyone interested in the history--and art--of science.