#MMWTour – Tweeting A Tour Of Making The Modern World

Looking over our Making the Modern World gallery as we hand over tweeting to curator @rooneyvision for his #MMWTour pic.twitter.com/h58Zv7zWpW

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Hi, I'm curator David Rooney. I'll be tweeting through 250 years of science and technology used in making the modern world #MMWTour

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Opened in 2000, it is home to 100 of the most important objects ever made, icons of the modern world #MMWTour pic.twitter.com/MT6P4QYDfB

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But alongside them are 1000 less famous objects that give real depth to the story. It's the unsung stars I'll mostly be tweeting #MMWTour

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We start with a clock. This clock, with state of the art 1780s precision engineering, made for George III #MMWTour pic.twitter.com/Kiz518XBnK

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Now at end of its life, not the clean machine famous on £5. This was a working machine & it bears the scars #MMWTour pic.twitter.com/9tLfVo4QNb

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Next is this working model of an 1875 engineering workshop. It totally rocks #MMWTour https://t.co/Jz7WLMYixX

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A modest object, but heartbreaking. A porcelain bowl pulled from Hiroshima after first atomic bomb dropped #MMWTour pic.twitter.com/ZkOYjcUhGC

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Next is Sierra Susie. She has look of resigned suffering after being flung into concrete walls all her life #MMWTour pic.twitter.com/2rK6n7dtoK

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We finish as we started with a clock. A prototype Clock of the Long Now, telling time for 10,000 years #MMWTour pic.twitter.com/MR0z1d6NWh

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And we are back. Thanks @rooneyvision for an excellent #MMWTour. We'll be storifying the tweets shortly.

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Good example of why museums are awesome. https://t.co/k4rr8Qw1WY (via @alicebell )

— Kishani Widyaratna (@KishWidyaratna) August 16, 2013

The @sciencemuseum twitter #MMWTour is great so far…so many developments rooted in materials science and engineering

— Prof Richard Johnston (@DrRichJohnston) August 16, 2013

Loving the @sciencemuseum's #MMWTour #learningisgoodforthesoul #scienceiscool

— TannahLouise (@TannahLouise) August 16, 2013