Sunday, March 13, 2011

World's Largest Pinball Machine, Franklin Institute Science Museum

The Franklin Institue Science Museum

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

"The World's Largest Pinball Machine"
The world's largest pinball machine invites visitors to start a billiard ball on a roller coaster course.  The ball sets other parts of the machine into motion, demonstrating many transformations of mechanical energy and a delightful chain of physical events.

unused - from 1978

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The Franklin Institute (named after the noted American scientist and statesman Benjamin Franklin) is a museum in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and one of the oldest centers of science education and development in the United States, dating to 1824.


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