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Fun-Engineering Steam Museum 1-330c

The Fun-Engineering Steam Museum story introduces young people aged between ten and fourteen to the principles of steam engines. It is also suitable for adults who wish to teach young people about steam technology and the industrial history of the Steam Age. Some adults have read it for their own interest and have said they enjoyed it! The story is presented as a hypertext document that can be read with a standard web browser. Blackboard sketches and other diagrams, some of which are animated, illustrate the principles involved. Precise definitions and explanations of technical terms are provided in pop-up windows. Notes for teachers are included. In the story you will meet Miss Tumble, a teacher who can really make concepts come to life. When she draws on the blackboard and explains something, you begin to understand immediately. For best results you will need a recent browser, the more recent the better, e.g. Internet Explorer or Netscape version 4 or later. The story works well for a full class if you have a video projector or a large screen monitor. It is a good idea to supplement the text with your own comments appropriate to your students. You set up the hypertext story simply by running the self-executable download file. This creates a folder, fesm, which contains all the necessary files. Click on the file index.html in this folder to open the story in your browser. To uninstall, simply delete the folder fesm. Here are some of the benefits and features of the story: - Children can read the story on their own, in groups of two or three, or with adult assistance. - Children are encouraged to look up the meaning of technical terms by clicking on highlighted words. - For Chapter 3, you have a choice of an easier or a more technical version. - Links are provided at the end of each chapter to the previous or the following chapter and to the title page. - A comprehensive grounding in the underlying scientific principles is provided.

This software is a commercial software. You will be able to download and test Fun-Engineering Steam Museum during a certain period of time, then, if it does what you need, you will have to acquire the full version. The trial version available for download on www.softandco.com has a size of 717 KBytes. For additional information and support request, please contact directly Fun-Engineering Steam Museum publisher.

Fun-Engineering Steam Museum 1-330c was released by Simtherg Limited on Monday 15 April 2002. Its known requirements are : Internet Explorer or Netscape version 4 or later.

Fun-Engineering Steam Museum will run on Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows Me, Windows 2000, Windows NT and Windows XP.

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1-330cMonday 15 April 2002