The New England Aquarium in Boston has a big wave machine (or used too,
anyway) that takes up a whole wall.

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> In various science museums I have seen visitor-activated wave
machines--basically a
> prop that shows that a wave is not moving water, but moving energy. I
want
> one big enough so that we could illustrate the break when the wave pulse
 encounters the bottom.  I would prefer to fabricate our own, since we have
> a pretty sophisticated exhibits shop inhouse.  Anyone seen one of these
and
> know where we could find plans?

> Barry Dressel
> Turks and Caicos National Museum, Grand Turk, Turks and Caicos Islands,
> British West Indies
>