Today I visited a meeting at Gotlands Fornsal, a museum. After the meeting, anyone who wanted was invited to come to the new exhibition about Christopher Polhem.
This is an exhibition you are supposed to touch. There are wheels and buttons, cog wheels and handspikes. And if you want to understand the greatness of Christopher Polhem, that’s the way to handle this exhibition.
I find his mechanical alphabet especially interesting. A way to teach young people the laws of mechanics, combining the mechanical ”letters” and also using a model for ”how to think” when you are solving a mechanical problem.
This is Lisa Johansson, who is responsible for the exhibition about Christopher Polhem. If you are going to Gotland, don’t miss this! It is amazing to see what a boy can achieve, growing up under difficult conditions, fighting to gain the knowledge he desired, and being ahead of his time with some of his inventions.
