- 8:30 a.m. Awake (9 hours sleep)
- 10:45 a.m. Reading Terminal Market - DiNic’s
- Roast Pork with onions and provolone
- Business name comes from combination of Tommy Nicolosi and his cousin, Franky DiClaudio: "DiNic's". Boom.
- 11:00 a.m. Reading Terminal Market - Old City Coffee: double shot espresso
- 11:00 a.m. Walk to Drexel Academy of Natural Sciences:
- Masonic Temple
- Philadelphia Municipal Services Building courtyard, with enormous games pieces
- LOVE Park
- Horwitz-Wasserman Holocaust Memorial Plaza
- Kosciuszko Monument
- Amor Sculpture
- Logan Circle
- Cathedral Basilica of Saints Peter and Paul
- Swann Memorial Fountain
- 11:45 a.m. Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University
- Butterfly landed on me : o )
- 1:00 p.m. Walk to Franklin Institute; passed by:
- Aero Memorial World War I
- Parkway Central Library (also known as Free Library or Central Library)
- How does a train brake work (?)
- Velocipede
- Battery term came from row of guns firing all at once
- Ben Franklin: how reasonable to be a reasonable creature to reason for everything one wants to do
- 1:15 p.m. Arrived at the Franklin Institute
- Exhibits seen:
- Electricity:
- Tesla Coil
- Changing Earth
- The Franklin Airshow
- 1911 Wright Brothers Model B flyer
- United States Air Force 1948 T-33 Shooting Star jet trainer
- The Giant Heart
- Walked inside
- The Train Factory:
- Nice visualization of the magnetic fields of two bar magnets
- Fun exhibit showing various prototypes of rail wheel types
- Space Command
- Clarified for me how battery works at a chemical level
- Amazing Machine
- Your Brain
- Admired the Neural Climber, but it looked like it was made for someone half my size (though one section seemed ok for adults)
- Real neruon from a giant squid
- Hanging piano
- Fels Planetarium
- 3:30 p.m. showing of "Asteroid: Mission Extreme"
- Laughed out loud at intro video which had Star Trek instrumental music and seemed a thinly disguised promo for Space-X
- Foucault pendulum
- 6:35 p.m. Arrive Rittenhouse Square
- Lion with a Snake by Antoine-Louis Barye (1832)
- Dr. J. William White Memorial
- 6:55 p.m. Federal Donuts @ Center City:
- Peach ricotta donut
- Dr. Brown's Root Beer
- 7:00 p.m. Joe's Brick Oven Pizza: slice of tomato pie and slice of black olive
- 7:25 p.m. Back at hotel (completely soaked)
- 11:30 p.m. Asleep
NOTES
- Completely soaked by rain
- Thunder and lightning
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