{"id":3472,"date":"2013-11-05T12:05:31","date_gmt":"2013-11-05T17:05:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/?p=3472"},"modified":"2013-11-05T12:05:31","modified_gmt":"2013-11-05T17:05:31","slug":"mining-at-the-deutsches-museum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/mining-at-the-deutsches-museum\/","title":{"rendered":"Mining at the Deutsches Museum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I recently had the opportunity to travel to Germany and visited the Deutsches museum in Munich.\u00a0 The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.deutsches-museum.de\/index.php?id=1&amp;L=1\">Deutsches museum<\/a> has exhibitions on science and technology.\u00a0 One of my favourites is the Mining exhibit.\u00a0 It contains life-size models of miners in different situations, such as manually drilling blast holes, transporting ore by barges, surveying, hole mining, etc.\u00a0 One interesting fact I learned is that horses, called \u201cpit ponies,\u201d were lowered underground and used in coal mines to haul materials in the past.\u00a0 Below are some of my photos from my visit to the \u201cmines.\u201d<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/files\/2013\/11\/Mining-exhibit.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-3475\" alt=\"Mining exhibit\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/files\/2013\/11\/Mining-exhibit.jpg\" width=\"602\" height=\"399\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/files\/2013\/11\/Mining-exhibit.jpg 602w, https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/files\/2013\/11\/Mining-exhibit-300x198.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/files\/2013\/11\/Mining-exhibit-452x300.jpg 452w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 602px) 100vw, 602px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recently had the opportunity to travel to Germany and visited the Deutsches museum in Munich.\u00a0 The Deutsches museum has exhibitions on science and technology.\u00a0 One of my favourites is the Mining exhibit.\u00a0 It contains life-size models of miners in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/mining-at-the-deutsches-museum\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[99],"class_list":["post-3472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-places"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3472"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3472\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3479,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3472\/revisions\/3479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}