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	The Tech Museum of Innovation URL: http://www.thetech.org/ ODP description: A hands-on technology museum devoted to inspiring the innovator in everyone. Page title: The Tech Museum of Innovation \| Welcome Page description: The Tech Museum of Innovation - Welcome! The Tech Museum inspires and educates the innovators of the future
	The Internet Craftsmanship Museum URL: http://craftsmanshipmuseum.com/ ODP description: Primarily an online museum, has workshop and displays of small machine tools open to the public. Photographs, hours of operation, and a map.
	Early Television Foundation URL: http://www.earlytelevision.org/ ODP description: Early television hardware, restoration tips, database of prewar sets and historical TV information.
	The Bakken Library and Museum URL: http://www.thebakken.org/ ODP description: A center for education and learning that furthers the understanding of the history, cultural context, and applications of electricity and magnetism in the life sciences and medicine. Page title: The Bakken: A Library and Museum of Electricity in Life! Best of Minneapolis St. Paul Museums Award Winner Page description: The Bakken Museum is a center for education and learning that furthers the understanding of the history, cultural context, and applications of electricity and magnetism in the life sciences and their benefits to contemporary society.
	British Lawnmower Museum URL: http://www.lawnmowerworld.co.uk/ ODP description: One of the world's leading authorities on vintage lawnmowers and the largest import and export specialists in antique garden machinery. From Ransomes' horse and pony mowers to racing mowers and the world's first mower designed in 1830 by engineer Mr. Edwin Beard Budding of Stroud in Gloucester. Site has music.
	The Museum of Radio and Technology, Inc. URL: http://oak.cats.ohiou.edu/~postr/MRT/ ODP description: Antique radio museum with vintage radios, TVs, tubes, parts, posters, communication radios, early hi-fi, and broadcast transmitters. Includes hours and travel directions. Page title: Museum of Radio and Technology Page description: The Museum of Radio and Technology is the largest antique radio museum in the eastern United States. See vintage radios, TVs, tubes, parts, posters, ham, military and communication radios, early hi-fi, broadcast transmitter, early computers, a large CB radio collection, the West Virginia Broadcasting Hall of Fame, and lots more. Free admission.
	American Museum of Radio and Electricity URL: http://www.amre.us/site/ ODP description: Features 11 galleries spanning a period of nearly 400 years. Includes hours, suggested donation and directions. Located in Bellingham, Washington. Page title: American Museum of Radio - Home
	Hammond Museum of Radio URL: http://www.hammondmuseumofradio.org/ ODP description: Over 1,000 operating receivers and transmitters, which span the time from the Spark Era to the first solid-state radios, all collected by Canadian Radio Pioneer, Fred Hammond. Page title: Hammond Museum of Radio Home Page Page description: The Hammond Museum of Radio in Guelph Ontario Canada features over 1,000 operational receivers and transmitters from the Spark era to the first Solid State HRO.
	Westonzoyland Pumping Station URL: http://www.wzlet.org/ ODP description: Museum of stationary steam engines and land drainage history of the Somerset Levels, at the county's oldest surviving pumping station. Includes details of location, opening times, exhibited engines and how to support their work. Page title: Westonzoyland Pumping Station, a Somerset museum of steam powered stationary engines and land-drainage history Page description: Museum of stationary steam engines and land drainage history of the Somerset Levels, at the county's oldest surviving pumping station. Open all year
	American Wind Power Center and Museum URL: http://www.windmill.com/ ODP description: Features water pumping windmill and related machinery with exhibits on windpower. Includes photos, hours, details of collection, membership form and directions. Page title: Windmills 806-747-8734 Page description: Windmill museum featuring American Style water pumping Windmills and related machinery from the 1800's to the present
	Devil's Rope Museum URL: http://www.barbwiremuseum.com/DevilsRopeMuseum.htm ODP description: Barbed wire history, identification, hobby, books and educational information. Located in McClean, Texas. Page title: Devil's Rope Barbed Wire Museum Homepage Page description: Devil's Rope Museum designed for students, teachers, historians and collectors who need informaiton about barbed wire history and collecting.
	The Schroeter Diesel Technology Museum URL: http://www.dieselmuseum.org/ ODP description: Collection includes tools, equipment, fuel injection parts, diesel injection pumps, nozzles and turbo cut-a-ways. Includes hours, location and contact form. Page title: Diesel Technologies
	Olin's Covered Bridge Museum URL: http://www.coveredbridgemuseum.org/ ODP description: Non-profit organization provides guided tours, educational programs and a gift shop. Includes news and events, photos and a visitor's guide. Located in Ashtabula, Ohio, United States. Page title: Home
	Dutch Museum of Electricity URL: http://www.radiotron.nl/engels.html ODP description: The history of power generation in the Netherlands providing general and visitor information. Located in Hoenderloo, the Netherlands. Page title: Dutch museum of electricity
	Cambridge Museum of Technology URL: http://www.museumoftechnology.com ODP description: Preserved Victorian pumping station. Includes functional steam engines and historical engineering items. Page title: Cambridge Museum of Technology - Entrance Page description: The Cambridge Museum of Technology is based in the Old Pumping Station with the original pumps and boilers with many other engines. There are a number of hands-on pumps, a printing room, a collection of early Cabridge wirelesses, instruments and other local artefacts.
	Rubens Maskinhistoriska URL: http://www.rubens.se ODP description: Features vintage machinery such as tractors, steam engines and other working equipment. Includes photos, FAQs, activities, contact information and directions. Located in Samlingar, Sweden. [Swedish, English, Dutch and German]. Page title: Rubens Maskinhistoriska Samlingar
	U.S. Marconi Museum URL: http://www.marconiusa.org/museum/ ODP description: Displays early Marconi wireless equipment together with a progression of radios including broadcast, amateur, mobile two-way radios, as cell phones as well as early medical RF therapy. Houses the John Frey Technical Library, collecting radio periodicals from the 1920s. In Bedford, New Hampshire.
	The Technical Museum URL: http://www.cimec.ro/Muzee/mteh/mteh_eng.htm ODP description: Bucharest museum featuring technology exhibits including steam engines and an electrical tram engine.
	Kew Bridge Steam Museum URL: http://www.kbsm.org/ ODP description: Collection of giant pumping engines in a Victorian waterworks on the Thames, and the history of water supply. Description of the major exhibits and visitor information. London. Page title: Kew Bridge Steam Museum, London - Home Page description: A steam engine you can walk through while it's working, in a building like a cathedral - that's just one of our engines. Steam power comes alive at London's Kew Bridge Steam Museum. Built in the 19th century to pump London's water supply, the museum is recognised as the most important historic site of the water supply industry in Britain and houses a world famous collection of Cornish steam pumping beam engines.
	TheTech Museum of Innovation URL: http://sizzle.thetech.org/ ODP description: Hands-on and interactive exhibits, divided among themed galleries. Features exhibits, IMAX, learning programs, and store. Located in San Jose, CA. Page title: The Tech Museum of Innovation \| Welcome Page description: The Tech Museum of Innovation - Welcome! The Tech Museum inspires and educates the innovators of the future