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In the depths of London Science Museum
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In the depths ofLondon Science Museum, is a bizarre contraption from the late 1800s

In the depths of
London Science Museum, is a bizarre contraption from the late 1800s

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In the depths of London Science Museum,
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is a bizarre contraption
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from the late 1800s.
Duration
7 seconds
Views
24
Timestamp in Movie
00:30:03
Uploaded
May 30, 2025
Season
1
Episode
10
Genres
documentary
Production
A+E Networks,Blink Films

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Movie Summary

From a piece of meteorite found in Tutankhamun's tomb to the Crown of Thorns, explore some of the most perplexing and unusual objects lying hidden away in museums, laboratories and storage rooms.
S01 • E02 Could reliably predicting the weather be science's next, great conquest? - Strangest Things 00:05
Could reliably predicting the weather be science's next...
S01 • E07 [narrator] People with psychosis - Strangest Things 00:07
[narrator] People with psychosis
S01 • E04 It's an ancient relic with a mystifying party trick. - Strangest Things 00:06
It's an ancient relic with a mystifying party trick.
S01 • E03 Anybody could hire the gang and then they would go there and fight for that person. - Strangest Things 00:05
Anybody could hire the gang and then they would go there and...
S01 • E08 I mean, economy busting sort of a big deal, really, when you think about it. - Strangest Things 00:05
I mean, economy busting sort of a big deal, really, when you...
S01 • E09 Now, instead of human labor, you would use some kind of mechanized labor - Strangest Things 00:08
Now, instead of human labor, you would use some kind of mech...
S01 • E10 It looks like a school science project gone wrong, - Strangest Things 00:08
It looks like a school science project gone wrong,
S01 • E05 [Corey] So this is a geomancy device - Strangest Things 00:06
[Corey] So this is a geomancy device
S01 • E03 And he was killing people and robbing people and making money out of that. - Strangest Things 00:06
And he was killing people and robbing people and making mone...
S01 • E02 By the Victorian times, it began to look possible to bring weather - Strangest Things 00:13
By the Victorian times, it began to look possible to bring w...
S01 • E07 So maybe our basic assumption is wrong, - Strangest Things 00:09
So maybe our basic assumption is wrong,
S01 • E08 We know of at least one cargo - Strangest Things 00:06
We know of at least one cargo
S01 • E04 It's not an optical illusion, - Strangest Things 00:07
It's not an optical illusion,
S01 • E01 Drees claims that, - Strangest Things 00:11
Drees claims that,
S01 • E06 [narrator] In an era before photography, - Strangest Things 00:10
[narrator] In an era before photography,
S01 • E09 So that was really the notion, - Strangest Things 00:06
So that was really the notion,
S01 • E05 But how on Earth does it all work? - Strangest Things 00:04
But how on Earth does it all work?
S01 • E10 This strange thing everything around us. - Strangest Things 00:04
This strange thing everything around us.
S01 • E03 [narrator] Then, at the age of 24, it all goes wrong for him. - Strangest Things 00:05
[narrator] Then, at the age of 24, it all goes wrong for him...
S01 • E07 So maybe, for everybody else except of that person - Strangest Things 00:06
So maybe, for everybody else except of that person