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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
Mark Brown North of England correspondent

THE TRUTH ABOUT: Think like an engineer wonderlab to open at national railway museum - The Untold Story

Pupils from Burton primary school enjoy one of the interactive exhibitions in the Wonderlab at the National Railway Museum.
Pupils from Burton primary school enjoy one of the interactive exhibitions in the Wonderlab at the National Railway Museum. Photograph: Gary Calton/The Guardian

“This one takes a bit more effort,” said Lorna Hogger, energetically spinning a wheel to slowly lift rubber balls into a rollercoaster network of metal tubes high in the air. They whiz round and thud out and a lesson is learned about how complicated things are often simpler than they seem.

Elsewhere there is a wind tunnel, a create-your-own hydrogen rocket, fun with marbles, and the chance to see how much better and brilliant everyone looks when filmed with an infrared camera.

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