Beau, 

The Aurora Regional Fire Museum has five video kiosks, with a half-dozen short interpretative videos on each.   We've also uploaded them on our YouTube site if you want to take a peek.   The ones most relevant to your question would be:

Firefighting in the Hand Drawn Era - How a Hand Pumper Works
http://youtu.be/z4CFaw_J38U


Firefighting in the Horse-Drawn Era - Getting Water
http://youtu.be/1mMlAlfjAXg

Let me know if you have anymore questions 

 

- David - 
David Lewis, Curator
Aurora Regional Fire Museum
www.AuroraRegionalFireMuseum.org
 

 

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From: George Harris <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Fri, Jun 3, 2011 12:00 pm
Subject: [MUSEUM-L] Interpretive Videos


Hello,
I'm trying to find museums that have some good videos/animation that
interpret things that are on display.  Specifically I'm interested in
videos of things with moving parts that are hard to interpret (we have
machine tools, most of which are relatively hard to interpret).  I've seen
a couple of the videos at the Musee des Arts et Metiers in France (which
are great) and looked at the Waterworks Museum website.  Any suggestions
as to who to talk with would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks.

Beau Harris
Collections Manager
American Precision Museum
196 Main St.
PO Box 679
Windsor, VT 05089
802-674-5781
802-674-2524 fax
www.americanprecision.org
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