A Visit To The Franklin Institute
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- One of my favorite places every since I was a kid! From a heart you can walk through to real Moon rocks - The Franklin Institute in Philadelphia is a cathedral to science that is dedicated to the first great scientist of the new United States, Benjamin Franklin. I take you on a little tour to highlight some of my favorite parts. Enjoy!
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My daughter just gave you a great compliment! "Wow, she's a real geek". (And it was said with true love and respect, btw).
Bless your daughter's tender heart.
Without the glassblowers of his time, a lot of Franklin's scientific research would never have been possible.
Thanks for the tour!
Are you going to call your new lab "The Fran Institute"?
Hear, here! I second this motion!
This was also my favorite place to visit every year as I grew to study electrical engineering. I remember the working steam locomotive engine that took visitors on a 30 foot ride. The physics section was great. Too bad they took out the Bell Telephone exhibit. I loved how you could hear how telephone conversations sounded and improved over the decades. And I could never forget the incredible Picturephone there in the mid 1960s! And the tic tac toe playing machine!
Science gift shop turns Fran into Homer Simpson. "m m m m Gyroscope..."
"mmmmm moon pillow, cratery"
Walking through the giant heart is one of my greatest memories as a kid.
I make it a point to listen to music every single day that is kind of like metaphysically walking through someone's heart. And yes, I've also walked through that giant heart model shown here, it required quite a bit of stooping on my part.
Wow! If I ever get to Philadelphia, I'm going to have to go there! Thanks for the quick tour.
Thanks for taking me back! So good to see several exhibits I remember from the '60's. Way overdue for a return visit.
Ahhh, thank you for this video. I moved away from the Philly area a year and some ago and FI is one of the things I will miss the most. It has been my happy place since I was a very small child and, thankfully, I've had plenty of opportunities to experience its magic in recent years. I think paired with the main branch of the Free Library, the interior of these buildings will grow ever more nostalgic.
Thanks for sharing, glad to see you're making vids.
This is on my bucket list. Thank you Fran
Clicked on this video only because of Frans awesome expression in the thumnail LMAO. Happy Fran!! :)
Whenever I am there, I am 10 years old.
The Franklin Institute used to have a computer based interactive exhibit using Atari 8-bit computers.
Really? That is so Retro! Atari is awesome. Never been here, seems like a great place. And you may run into Fran! Autograph! Autograph! Clam down. OK. Phew.
Thanks Fran - I really enjoyed the tour. It has been many years since I visited the Franklin Inst. and it looks much better and more exciting than the rundown place I remember. I'll have to get down there soon. Bob
I visited the Franklin Institute when I was in like 3rd grade. That was back in the mid 1960's! I was fascinated then, and I am still fascinated now! Thanks for the video tour!
This is a great tour, Fran. I hope things with the new lab are working out!
I haven't been to the Franklin Institute since the late 60,s? And the heart is still there. Memories, thanks Fran!
Moon rocks. Love it
Scrap & Pallet Man The moon rock looks like moldy cheese. 😁
My husband and I need to go back again. I highly recommend going and I definitely recommend supporting the institute via donation and membership. It's exceedingly worth it.
Also to Fran:
Thank you for being an inspiration and sharing your experience and expertise I'm always glad to see videos from a local and even more to see that it's someone who touches all the bases of what I look for in CZcams videos.
My Husband and I.....
@@GeneralPadron thank you, dear sir for being an internet Patriot and fixing an error in my grammar the world is a better place now.
Thanks for taking us along - appreciate it.
Very cool. I love this type of stuff. thank you very much.
Fran, I think you would really enjoy the Science Museum in London. If you ever visit the UK then you must put this on your `to do` list. I occasionally visit London, and as well as visiting the normal tourist attractions I always find time to visit one of the famous museums. After a really busy time at work I was looking forward to my trip to down to London, and in particular a visit to Science museum to unwind a bit and forget about work for a few days. On entering the building, they had a special exhibition on the Flying Bedstead. This flying machine was a precursor to the famous Harrier Jump Jet, it helped prove the concept of using jet engine thrust vectoring to achieve stable flight. This machine was tested at my employers’ site at Hucknall, Nottinghamshire. In the background of the first picture that I came to it depicted the Flying Bedstead taking off and I could quite clearly see the office that I sit and work in each day. Sometimes you just can’t escape from work!
Been going there for a lot of years. Had a membership for a while so I could visit whenever I was downtown and had a little time. Thanks Fran.
After this video, Fran is now the proud owner of 20 Apollo Saturn V LEGO kits.
fran! klin! fran! klin!
i remember seeing that same walk through heart model on pbs as a kid and printed in books!
Wow. Franklin's machines were so heavy duty! He didn't mess around... Amazing they made all that stuff with glass, leather, wood, and brass, etc. Nice job, Ben (and Mr Tesla).💡
Great tour Fran. The Pendulum Staircase at 3:40 reminds me of a similar exhibit at the Smithsonian Institute I used to
be fascinated by back around 1963. It used to knock over little blocks placed around it's circumference due to the earth's
rotation and it's precession if I remember the scientificalness of it correctly.
There was also one in the Science museum in London. I also reproduced the demo in a school I taught at.
Perhaps they could ask Fran to be a tour guide? Excellent highlights !
My Dream Job!
@@FranLabpoint out to the museum if they did, that would add nearly 100,000 potential new visitors !
Nice to see you so happy. The Leyden Jar's reminded me of Baghdad Battery's. Static tube is reminder of tech found in paintings on egyptian walls.Technology rediscovered. Wonder how many of those children realize that our heart is (bio)electric. Beautiful art deco railings. Wonderful metal working. I'd forgotten that I use to have a gyroscope when I was a kid. Yup I could spend a day here. Loved the small printing machine - I learned how to use one of those printing machine's and set type but the one I used was a larger floor model. The Atomaton was amazing. Thank you for the tour.
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Thanks Fran for a excellent tour of the Museum.
HOLY COW! I would never want to leave!!!
Very interesting. Thanks for the tour. : )
Thanks for sharing this. What a cool place. I had not known about this place since I've never been to Philadelphia.
Friend should get a check from the Philadelphia Board of Tourism, for encouraging visitors to come check out this wonderful City.
I have very faint memories of going there with my grandma and cousins when I was a really little kid, and again a little older with friends. I was scared of the walk through heart! My favorite part was the train room, and probably still would be, but I haven't been there since I was a kid. Wow I remember the pendulum! Thanks for the tour!
Science and history is everything! 😍🤘
thanks for the visit👍
I had the opportunity to visit the Franklin Institute during a long-weekend stay in Philly 10 years ago. Really amazing place. The Foucault pendulum is probably the biggest one I've seen. Thanks for sharing and bringing back those memories. I definitely need to go back there.
Thank you for sharing your favorite place when you were a kid. Mine was the Chicago Science and industry.
Great tour Fran or Geek in Paradise. Ben Franklin's lightning rods saved a lot of houses. My brothers log home was hit by lightning twice because the insurance company told him he wasn't in a lightning prone zone so he put up a lightning rod to keep his place from being hit a 3rd time.
Haven't been back to the Museum for about thirty years. Great place.
cool stuff
"Look, I'm holding a Moon Rock!"
You Crack Me Up. Thank you for sharing Fran.
Thanks for sharing👍😀
Reminds me of the Chicago Museum of Science and Industry. I grew up going there MANY times and MANY times after I grew up. And the Adler Planetarium in Chicago. Another fantastic place I finally got to a couple years ago was the Henry Ford (Museum) and adjacent Greenfield Village. It is so massive it is hard to put into words. It really is a must see.
Thank you :)
Wow so many memories so much to see - and learn about. Boston museum of science was what i got exposed to as a kid, i remember a few things you showed here. perhaps common to many museums that feature science exhibits.
hours went by like minutes. burned into my memory like phosphor burn, was a Nixie tube display. How i thought that was the damn coolest thing in 1972.......The greatest place to take your child - before the age of ten. And leave the phone in the car, or even better at home.
Love You, Fran!! I see you coming out of the "Funk" and gettin' relaxed in your new crib. What am I talking about?! I hope your new domicile and solid situation is conducive to your creative endeavors and holds long lasting promise to the delivery of quality videos that inspire and entertain us non Philadelphia natives, as well as your neighbors, and at the same time giving you the satisfaction that we crave your, well, creativity. :-)
Fran comes Franklin... I've confusing.
Oh man, that thumbnail! Lmao!
Your a nut! i love it!
Also one of my favorite places!
We are all inside Fran's dream.
Thanks Fran; great tour! I was born in Phily, the Institute was my favorite place to go as a kid. Glad to see they still have the heart, I remember it in the 50's. Do they still have the locomotive?
Philly is a wonderful city, not only for the art and history museums, but for the food as well. Go to Cuba Libre for lunch or dinner, and if you drink, have a Mojito as well. I strongly recommend the pumpkin ravioli, and the BBQ ribs with guava black bean sauce. My wife isn't big into ribs, but she absolutely loved those, she was stealing them off my plate.
Thanks for taking us on a tour of the Fran-klin Institute! :-) Did they have an armonica exhibit? (I did a report in 6th grade on Benjamin Franklin, and was surprised to know he had his hands in a lot more pies than politics and electricity!) I wish I had CZcams and the internet 30 years ago, I could've written one heck of a report!
The pendulum staircase brought back fond memories of my trips to the Boston Museum of Science, they have one, and I used to just stand there at the bottom for a good ten minutes to watch it go.
_{cue wavy childhood flashback}_
I was also transfixed by their IMAX projector room, which has a massive glass wall so while waiting in the queue, you could see the massive film reels and the transport mechanism, and the rear of the projector itself... The staffer monitoring the queue would talk about having a positive atmospheric pressure in the projector room to help keep dust out of the room because the tiniest speck would be massive on-screen... Yeah, fond memories.
I also remember going to a computer lab - my mind suggests it was accessible through the Boston Museum's parking garage? - where I met Everybody's Favorite Computer Psychologist, ELIZA, running on an Apple IIe (with the green Apple monochrome monitor)... That one moment with ELIZA started my interest in computers.
_{end wavy childhood flashback}_
**sighs** Seems like a lifetime ago. Early 1990s, so yeah, a "long" time ago - ages, technologically-speaking. It's funny what memories stick with you with amazing clarity.
I always loved going there, on the few visits back to that area there hasnt been time to go so thank you very much.. Is the train room still there? The heart was always a special attraction because of our family history, my one brother was born with a hole in his heart and was the youngest, at 7, to undergo open heart surgery to repair it, nearly 50 years later they repaired the hole in my granddaughters heart when she was 1 by going up to the heart from the groin via her femoral artery. Our youngest brother is about to make history at the U of Penn by being the first to get a heart and liver transplant..Its great to see the automaton working
I loved going there when I was a kid. Interesting how some of it is just as I remember, like the loud ambient sounds in the hall at the beginning of the video. The heart looks better than I remember. I don't remember the gift shop or space stuff at all. A school field trip there is corrupted by what I think was an episode of House MD where a kid got sick in the heart. What I think I liked best didn't make it into the video or maybe they're gone--display cases with a push button to activate the machines inside. Pretty sure there was a Jacob's ladder in one of those.
Love from belgium
4:28 & 4:55 - The implications of both those objects is absolutely mind blowing!
That was Frantastic! ~ Thank you Fran ~ off to find the first American (;
Went here when I was a kid in the 80s.
Can't wait till my kids a wee bit older and I can take him there.
One of the most interesting demonstrations was the lightning demonstration, with it's high voltage vacuum rectifiers and capacitor banks. They would charge it up then switch the caps from parallel to series and Bang! A lightning bolt! Do they still run that or has it been mothballed?
7:08 *Love it*
I forgot how cool the Institute was
Hi Fran,
If I didn't know you were at the Franklin Institute I would have sworn you were at the Chicago Museum of Science and Industry. When you were showing the heart and then the pendulum staircase it was as if I was in Chicago again. I wonder if there is a submarine there also?
Great recollections from my school trip visit some 60 years ago -- the walk-through heart and the meteorite I remember distinctly. Of course all the Apollo stuff was 10 years in the future. I picked up a radiometer in the gift shop that sparked an early interest in solar energy, which I also exercise with death-ray zapping of ants with a magnifying glass. (Sorry ants.)
Fran, if you ever visit the Netherlands 🇳🇱 ( poplar name... Holland), go to HAARLEM (yep with two “a”) and goto the Teyler museum. Sure you will love it! It is not a Hugh place, but has the good stuff for sure.
You can touch moon rock at the Air and Space Museum in D.C.
So much to do and see in Philly. Do the Franklin Historical trail, The Academy of Natural Sciences. Wagner Free Institute, so many art museums, history and cultural museums (I have a family affinity for the Swedish museum), so many Revolutionary War parks and museums in and surrounding the Philly area. Valley Forge is but a few minutes drive for me.
Thanks for taking us on a tour of Ben's accomplishments, life, and influences. I'm just glad his suggestion for the national bird didn't get accepted. ;)
TheTrueVoiceOfReason The Mütter museum is awesome too.
@@kenwolfe6093 , the Mütter was in my initial thoughts, but got left out in the rewrite. I still remember the one guy's post about it, years ago, that went with the über distended intestine: "Holy S41t! It's a Colon!"
And don't forget Eastern State Penitentiary, especially on Tastykake day!
It sounded more like an aviary than a place of machines. Neat place! They need some lube bad.
The kids go bonkers for the squeaky stuff!
7:24 Just buy one, you won't regret it. So much fun to build.
Why a sinusoidal element in the bulb?
Very nifty :)
I wonder if the Train is still there..?, Been about 30-40 year I was last there..
4:33 ... I paid a short visit to the Meteor crater in Arizona on my way to the old Los Alamitos Naval Air Station in California in 1970. I think this fragment or one just like it was on display at the time. It was late in the evening near closing time, so while I did not get to hike to the crater floor, i was able to view the crater from a platform built right on the rim. This crater is 600 feet deep and almost a mile across. The pictures of it are not anything like being there. Downtown Memphis would fit inside the crater with its tallest building of about 400 feet well below the crater wall.
Love museums like this. Don't get the opportunity to go to the science museums in the UK.
Was that pie shaped moon rock a Moon Pie?
Very similar to the Deutsches Museum here in Munich. Including a shop as well. Not every city in the world has these historic science expositions. We're pretty lucky, hu? Check out examples on U-Tube. It's fine with them filming stuff. But without a tripod.
Please tell me the steam locomotive is still in the basement! I was struck with trembling awe at its sheer size when I was a young boy.
They should have one of those machines like at the zoo where you put in a quarter and it dispenses food to feed the ducks, only it should have tranquilizers you can pass out to the kiddies.
I wonder if there are any reproductions of the book that Franklin wrote about electricity. That display of that included old bulbs from England should provide information comparing the dates of them vs. ones made by Edison. $12 for that small cup shown at 7:21??
Yes: Google or Amazon "Franklin's Experiments and Observations on Electricity"
I read it as The "Fran-klin" institute.
Audio is out of sync slightly for me...anyone else have that issue?
Next time please shoot some video of the railroad steam locomotives, including the scale models made by apprentices.
BRAINZZZZZ
More like the FRANklin Institute, am I right?
What we see in the selfie parts of the video is FRAN, twinKLIN-g !
7:24 - "50V Shot Rocket Fuel Legs" :)
Leyden jar battery 😁
That is the historically correct term. Not condenser or capacitor. As it is a group (of jars), battery is still correct.
The Moon rock looked like a wedge of cheese, coincidence ? :)
The automaton, the beginnings of Boston Dynamics...or is it Skynet?
Go on, clamber through that heart and see if you can get stuck in the aorta! :D Don't damage the blood vessel walls in case you cause a Franeurysm. I'll get me coat...
Ciao Fran Bilance
Grazie per il video.
La prossima volta, ci porti a visitare il luogo ove e' esposto la Costituzione Americana?
Lascio un cordiale saluto, Fausto (Roma, Italia)
31 marzo 2019
P.S.
Hai mai provato, a replicare le Lampade di Dendera, ?
it.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lampade_di_Dendera
Faccelo sapere, le compreremo!
Ciao
Did you have to get permission to film in there?
Thats funny. The moon rock looks like a piece of ... well ... cheese. 😃
I can't help, but think that she's so cute. And yes, I know, but cute is cute.
Fran, since like me you wear glasses, I think you need a t-shirt with Ben Franklin's image and the phrase "You Had Me At Bi-Focals!". That's what I wear anyway. And of course, they were invented by Ben Franklin.
It's funny how people are frequently making references to our founding fathers in any conversation having to deal with societal issues or politics, but hardly anyone ever invokes Ben Franklin. Franklin would certainly be an anachronism in our highly capitalistic modern society, because he published virtually all of his discoveries and inventions with details so that others could build them and even improve upon them and perhaps come up with new inventions and discoveries based on Franklin's work. Nowadays, nobody dreams of doing any such thing and everyone is vying to get their ideas and inventions patented, or hiring teams of lawyers to protect their ideas and inventions from being copied or counterfeited. You could say he had a strong streak of socialism to him. He helped make us a better country and a better people because of it.
So , whose dream were you in. That part skipped ahead, just like a dream.
I like So Delicious vanilla nondairy frozen desert. I don’t eat ice cream either.
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2:14 - All 's's are 'f's :)
You don't fay?