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The Polytechnic exposes a thousand pieces, among which the Enigma encryption machine, the first models of calculators and a centenary X-ray device of the Hospital de la Caridad stand out
The Museum of Engineering, Technology and Industry (MITI) of the Polytechnic University of Cartagena (UPCT), after years of preparation and specific exhibitions, opens permanent opening hours in the undercover of the Industrial School, former Marina Hospital , where the original wooden beams of this 18th century building are preserved.
The MITI has 900 square meters of exhibition space, as well as a repair workshop for gadgets, and currently shows a thousand technological pieces, which show the evolution of different disciplines of Engineering.
The section of encryption machines stands out, with an Enigma of those used by the Nazis in World War II and the rebel side in the Civil War, and the mathematical decoding of the Caravaca Apparition window, a sixteenth-century skylight.
It also exhibits the first models of calculators and calculation systems dating back to antiquity, cinematographers, calculation machines for cannons and an X-ray machine of the first decade of the twentieth century, which was in service for seventy years in Cartagena. Virgin of Charity
The rector of the UPCT, Alejandro Díaz, the director of the School of Industrialists, Patricio Franco, and the general director of Cultural Assets of the Community, Juan Antonio Lorca, attended the inauguration in the Museum of the exhibition 'Industry and Technology of the Enlightenment ', in which representatives of the Armed Forces and the Hospital de la Caridad have also participated, organizations that have donated some of the exhibited works.
"I was surprised.
It is a fantastic museum in an unbeatable space, "said the head of museums of the regional government.
"The objective is to promote engineering," said the director of the Museum and former professor of the UPCT, Joaquín Roca Dorda.
"We must thank the enormous work of the team of volunteers and scholars who contribute every day to improving the archive, services and capacity of this Museum, the efforts of the previous directors of the Industrial School and the support we have given to through the Office of the Vice-Rector for Students and University Extension, "said Patricio Franco.
MITI will open from Monday to Friday from 10:30 am to 1:00 pm and from 4:30 pm to 6:30 pm and will have guides that will explain the different exhibits.
For group visits, an appointment must be made in advance with the management of the Industrial School.
This Tuesday, at 10:30, there will be a guided tour for the university community.
Source: UPCT
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