Musée des Arts et Métiers
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The Musée des Arts et Métiers is an industrial design museum in Paris that houses the collection of the Conservatoire national des arts et métiers, which was founded in 1794 as a repository for the pr
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A 1985 supercomputer Cray-2
Plaque of the Conservatoire national des arts et métiers (Paris)
The original Foucault pendulum at the Musée des Arts et Métiers in 2005
Foucault's Pendulum
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Foucault's Pendulum is a novel by Italian writer and philosopher Umberto Eco. It was first published in 1988, with an English translation by William Weaver being published a year later.
Musée des Arts et Métiers
…Cugnot's 1770 Fardier has been in this collection for over 200 years. The museum appears in literature as the scene of the climax of the 1988 novel Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco, and is featured in the 2019 documentary film about the Statue of Liberty, Liberty: Mother of Exiles. The museum can be accessed by the…
First edition (Italian)