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** ~The Library of Imagination~ **



Dungeons and Dragons (D&D) is a RPG which was originally designed by Gary Gygax and Dave Arneso. It was first published in 1974 by company called Tactical Studies Rules, or TSR. Dungeons and Dragons Board Games widely known as one of the first RPG games out there, and it popularized this style of gaming. I think Dungeons and Dragons deserves to be in The Library of Human Imagination because Gary and Ameso could design and create such a game that would become one of the most played games in the world, 20 million people have played D&D and have spent over $1 Billion dollars in books and equipment.

[] –Dungeons and Dragons Commercial From the 1970’s

** Bicycle ** The Bicycle is the first human means of transportation, with the two wheel principle. The Draizine or other wised called the “walking machine” was invented by Karl von Drais. The Draizine is regarded as the prototype of the contemporary Bicycle. Drais first introduced his invention in the summer of 1817 in Mannheim, an in 1818 in Paris. The rider would sit on the bicycle seat and use his or her feet to run, while sitting. The bicycle now dominates the world of transportation by recreational use, racing, and a method of transportation, so no questions asked, it should be in The Library of Imagination.





The Olympic Games

The Ancient Olympic Games were athletic competitions held in honor of Zeus. The exact time when the Olympic Games where started wasn’t exactly known but records show that they began around 776 BC in Olympia, Greece. They carried on until 393 AD, but it was suppressed by Theodosius 1 as a part of the campaign to impose Christianity as a state religion. The Olympics are held every 4 years. Compared to the modern day Olympics there weren’t as many categories or events. The Olympics deserve to be in The Library of Imagination because it shows how competition can be used as a political tool to assert authority over their adversaries. To represent this concept I would probably try and obtain one of the oldest javelins or batons out there!



Camera A camera is a device that lets you take Images and store them. These images can be still or moving; although, they’re mostly still images, a camera can record short videos as well. The camera uses the visible light spectrum (ROY G. BIV).In the modern day, the camera is used by everyone; tourists, artists etc. The Camera deserves to be in the Library of Imagination because of how creative and imaginative Johann Zhan must have been when he said he wanted to take an image in the real world and put it on paper without a pencil or eraser.

Compass A compass is used as a navigational instrument to determine direction relative to Earth’s north and south poles. The Compass improved the safety and kept people on the right course. You can use a compass to calculate latitude, and heading. Ancient China had come up with this invention around 247 BC, and it was first used for navigation by the 11th century. The compass should be in The Library of Imagination because it was way ahead of its time, and it was a huge help to sailors travelling across the Atlantic and Pacific oceans to discover new lands, when more sophisticated technology was not available.

**__[|The Automobile] __** The first item to display in our museum is the earliest working automobile. Since 1886, driving a car has proved a fast, comfortable, and reliable method of transportation. Though today it may be a burden to the environment, the imagination behind the creation of this vehicle was truly phenomenal. In 1886, Karl Benz designed and patented the first full-scale gasoline-powered automobile, the[|1886 Benz]. Although it may look like a joke compared to today's standards, the Benz was the inspiration for the cars we drive today, and an amazing demonstration of what the human imagination can do. **__[|The Telephone] __** The second item to display in our museum is the very first telephone. The telephone is a device that transmits and receives sound. This has proved handy for situations where one can not speak face-to-face with the person they are talking to, especially long distance communication. Though it is commonly disputed over who created the telephone, many say it was due to the work of Alexander Graham Bell. This item deserves to be in our museum because it has greatly helped with ways of communication, and in many instances, saved lives.



**__[|The Internet] __**

The internet is an international computer network providing access to information across the globe. Origins of the internet exist as far back as the 1960's when the United States government decided they wanted to be able to share information with the rest of the world in an easier fashion. As of today, the internet is not only used as a means of communication, but for entertainment reasons as well. The creation of the internet exists in this library, because it gives us unlimited, free access to infinite information



**__[|The Lightbulb] __**

A light bulb is defined as a glass bulb that when inserted into a socket, creates light by passing an electrical current though a pocket of inert gas. Although this may seem like a fairly straight forward idea, the creativity it must have taken to devise is extraordinary. The light bulb was invented by an American scientist by the name of Thomas Edison. During the early stages of his life, Thomas Edison was looked down upon, and thought of as a fool. Today he is known as one of the most ingenious inventors that ever lived. In popular culture, the light bulb is a symbol of intelligence; in cartoons, the light bulb will often pop up over someone's head when they come up with a brilliant idea. The incandescent light bulb has provided an efficient light source as a replacement for the candle. These are just a few of the reasons we chose this item to be in our museum



**__[|The Guitar] __**

Ever since the beginning of the 14th century, the [|guitar] has been bringing joy to the ears of many. The modern guitar is a plucked stringed instrument consisting of 6 strings, played either with the fingers, or a plectrum. Before this design, the place of the guitar was taken by other plucked stringed instruments such as the lute, the oud, and the sitar. However these instruments are still existent in some music today, none have captivated audiences as largely as the guitar has. This is why the guitar deserves to be in our museum. The way the guitar is constructed is also a link to brilliance of the human imagination; imagine the creativity it took to think of producing music with strings wound across a piece of wood~! .

Our facility, in which we will host our Library of Imagination, will look somewhat like a gigantic spa

Library of Imagination

1) Model of Human Evolution



We have evolved from walking on all fours to the somewhat civilized people we are now. We created cell phones, laptops, and all the items that are listed below. This is the library of human imagination.

2) Flyer/Kitty Hawk For hundreds of years people have dreamt of flying. They imagined the feeling of lifting of the ground and feeling the weightlessness. Lots of them have made their own "flying machines" and failed. The Wright Brothers did not. On December,17, 1903, Orville Wright made the first powered and piloted flight in history. Although the flight was only 12 seconds long, it was the start of the whole new world of flying.



Click here to see a replica flight of the first Flyer/Kitty Hawk nearly a hundred years after the original flight. (The Youtube user disabled embedding.)

3) Models Architecture by Frank Gehry The Walt Disney Concert Hall and the Experience Music Project building have one thing in common. They are both the result of Frank Gehry's imaginative designing. He and some of the buildings he designed, including his personal residence, were even featured on an episode of the Simpsons.

For more of his cool architecture click [|here].

4) The Feather and Hammer Dropped on the Moon  On the last moonwalk of Apollo 15, David Scott dropped a hammer and feather to demonstrate the concept of gravity that Galileo had come up with 400 years ago. Galileo went against the beliefs and people in that time period and even whe n everybody said he was crazy he continued on with his research. Unfortunately the people of the renaissance were not very open to Galileo's seemingly crazy ideas. He was charged with heresy and spent the rest of his life under house arrest.

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5) A Model of the Original Disneyland and the Current Disneyland  "As long as there is imagination left in the world, Disneyland will never be finished." Walt Disney sure was right about that. Disneyland began as a an idea formed by Walt Disney, grew into a few sketches, and finally turned into a 160-acre theme park opened on July 16th, 1955. Walt Disney imagined and created a place where " age relives fond memories of the past ... and here youth may savor the challenge and promise of the future." Now, more than half a century later, Disneyland is 510 acres with over 50 attractions and has many locations around the world.

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6) An Early Print of the New York Times Before TV and radio, newspapers were a way to deliver and receive information. And while the New York times isn't the oldest newspaper in the world or even in North America, it remains one of the most widely known newspapers in the world. As people started shifting from newspapers to going online to check the news the New York Times did the same. Their website is the most visited news website in America with more than 18 million different visitors every month. This newspaper has survived through over a hundred fifty years of rapid changes to our society and the world.



7) Original Scores of Antonio Vivaldi (If anybody ever found any) Antonio Vivaldi wasn't just a composer, he had a day job too. He worked at an orphanage for girls. He looked over the fact that these girls were not wanted by the rest of society and created an orchestra with them. They eventually became famous and toured all over Europe. For this to happen, Vivaldi had to imagine what those girls could do and help them reach their full potential.





8) Statue of David Before the Renaissance, paintings and sculptures and art in general lacked depth. Paintings looked flat and sculptures had no real detail. With the Statue of David you get an amazing amount of detail. The hair has individual curls and you can actually see the muscle structure. The art of the Renaissance was just a huge step up from the art of previous time periods.

9) Animal Farm by George Orwell Instead of it being a boring textbook about the Russian Revolution, George Orwell used his imagination and made it interesting by using animals. The story still talks about "Animalism" and the abuse of power but on a new and different platform. Orwell gives each of the animals a unique personality that represents a important figure or group of people. Once you actually get into the Russian Revolution it's really quite interesting but at a first glance would you rather read a dusty old textbook or a story about animals?

Animal Farm was made into a animated movie on Youtube. 10) Henry Gray's Anatomy of the Human Body This was the first widely available textbook that covered all of human anatomy. No else had thought, or at least taken action, of putting together a complete book. the textbooks before just focused on a specific part of the body. The book is considered a classic work in the subject and now more than a hundred fifty years later forty editions have been published. Considering that this book was first published in 1858 and is still regularly being used is amazing. (It also inspired the name of the TV show Grey's Anatomy.)                              From the 20th edition ---> to the current one.

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Items: Nuclear Bomb. This represents the human impulse to eliminate one another when threatened. Throughout the centuries, weapons keep getting deadlier. The nuclear bomb was an unfortunate invention which can be used to kill many people without putting others in harm's way.

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<span style="display: block; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Computer. This device is a way to receive, transmit, share, and store information. Almost anyone can find what they are looking for through the use of a computer. You can do anything from talking with friends to completing homework to playing games. Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. The charter provides equal rights and freedoms to Canadian citizens, and is embedded into the Constitution. Prior to this, was the Bill of Rights which was often ignored by the judicial system. The charter was an improvement of the Bill of Rights.<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; cursor: pointer; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 0px;">[|The Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms] Telescope. People have always wondered what was beyond Earth and invented a way to see it. Through the telescope, people could see stars and planets. Telescopes provided an insight into what was outside of our atmosphere and how even the greatest monarchs were small in comparison.

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Motion Picture. Motion pictures are a way to translate morals and concepts to large amounts of people. The story can be anything you want to convey and can sometimes show what might be possible. Different films communicate different aspects of humanity such as comedy or drama, or in the form of non-fiction such as a documentary. media type="youtube" key="IErXg5kBXXg?fs=1" height="385" width="480" Vaccine. Prior to vaccines, people were dying of diseases. With the invention of vaccine, scientists created immunity for the general population to certain diseases by injecting a small amount of the dead disease cells into the body. As a result of the vaccine, many diseases have been eliminated or controlled to avoid making us sick. Car. The car transformed the world in the way of transportation. It took many people with great ideas to get the car the working the way it is today. Before the car was horses and carriages which could be unpredictable. The car gave people stability and control over their transportation.



The Thinker. Many people express their creativity through art. The Thinker was made by Auguste Rodin and represents philosophy, internal struggle, and deep thinking. A combination of artistry and intellect make this statue the essence of the capability of human imagination.



Plough. People are always trying to make their lives easier. The plough made less work of cultivation, and was more efficient than doing it by hand. This agricultural instrument lessend the work load for farmers, but also brought up nutrients from the soil. By hand, this process would be very arduous, and take up too much time in a farmer's day. The plough helps provide more food and makes our lives today possible.<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; cursor: pointer; padding-right: 10px;">[|The Invention of the Plough] The human imagination comes from the brain and that inspired the design for our building. In this front view, you can see the frontal lobe where the main entrance is located. The windows on the building show how you can look out at the possibilities in the world. Inside the building, there are staircases beginning from the bottom floor to the top. These symbolize how any idea can only go up from where it begins. A rainbow bridge in our building shows how imagination can be unlimited and the ideas are rich like a pot of gold at the end of a rainbow. <span style="clear: both; display: block; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 0px; max-width: 1280px;"> <span style="clear: both; display: block; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 0px; max-width: 1280px;"> On the first floor of our outstanding structural masterpiece, are some crucial inventions that have helped shape civilization. Some of these inventions are examples of the evolution of transportation, modern technology, and past versus present weapons.



As you enter the main floor, the first imaginative object you will feast your eyes upon is the ever-helpful wheel. The wheel, invented in approximately 8000 B.C., possibly somewhere in Asia, has been the building block for almost all transportation to date. The wheel, in its early age, made transportation of goods easier for merchants and travelers, therefore making trade faster and a simpler way to make a profit. Nowadays, the wheel is used mainly for transportation, including cars, trains, airplanes, and bicycles. media type="youtube" key="mNRXG8Izprk?fs=1" height="385" width="480" The simple idea of a wheel has evolved into many modern transportation devices. For example, the wagon and carriage of the early middle ages which over time transformed into a motorized vehicle, invented in approximately 1885. On December 17th, 1903, the Wright brothers piloted the first ever successful manned flight which lasted for a total of 12 seconds!!! The original "Flyer" plane is one of our many exhibits in the Library. However, the Wright brothers' invention was not the first aircraft; the first hot-air balloon was flown on September 19th, 1783. The 'Aerostat Reveillon', invented by Pilatre De Rozier, stayed in the air for 15 minutes with three passengers: a duck, a rooster, and a sheep. This is the next exhibit on display! As we fly on around the Library, the next extraordinary exhibit we will come across is the original model of the plans of the Sydney Opera House. This remarkable structure showcases the creativity that the human imagination puts to use. media type="youtube" key="2Ewy_II_Nm0?fs=1" height="385" width="480"(1:12 - 2:27) We move on from Sydney to Rome to Giza, Egypt, with each place contributing an amazing piece of work. Rome, Italy is the home of the famous Roman Colosseum, completed in AD 80. The southern side of the Colosseum collapsed in an earthquake in 847, but it remains an incredible piece of architecture. We have on display some of the original marble from the ruin. In Giza, the Pyramid of Khufu and the Great Sphinx rest among the dunes. The Pyramid is the only one of the Seven Wonders of the World still remaining. Snug in it's glass case is some of the original polished limestone casing, chipped from the apex of the Pyramid. From architecture to art in the form of paintings and statues, we move on to the works of famous artists from around the world. For example, on display we have da Vinci's "Mona Lisa", and the exemplary Greek statues "Venus de Milo" and "Winged Victory". These statues and paintings are very creative examples of art that draw huge numbers of visitors and admirers. From here we move on to the second floor via an invention right out of a sci-fi movie. Climb aboard our Moller M200G hovercraft! The hovercraft can hover 10 feet off the ground and cruises at a speed of 50 mph. Something that has been imagined for decades, the Moller M200G Hover Car costs $125,000. The company, Moller International, has classified the Moller M200G as a recreational device, so you do not need a driver's license! However, if you are somewhat hesitant about riding our hovercar, you can climb our lovely spiral staircase! As we enter the second floor, the first item on display is a model of the first firearm as well as gunpowder. These are examples of how the human imagination can take an inventionand turn it into something negative, usually for personal gain. <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"> The next item on our tour is an ingenious creation that is a simple solution for many of the water problems that occur in remote African villages. PlayPumps International is operated by a nonprofit South African company called Roundabout Outdoor. The "PlayPump" is a merry-go-round that is installed in the ground. Every turn of the PlayPump generates clean, drinkable water to a holding tank. The PlayPump is a creative way to solve a complicated problem. media type="youtube" key="qjgcHOWcWGE?fs=1" height="385" width="480" <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: 19px;">(1:53) Finally in our Library of Imagination, we have on display the complete original works of William Shakespeare. Shakespeare was an English poet and playwright who wrote 38 plays and over 150 poems. Many of his plays are still performed all over the world, and have been translated into every major language in the world. Shakespeare was a very creative man and his imaginative writing lives on centuries after his death.

** Our Library of Imagination ** <span style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px;">The outside of our library would be a replica of the first wonder of the world, the Great Pyramid of Giza. There would be many entrances to the building, four of which would be secret, and the main entrance would require a person to successfully navigate a series of tests, challenges, and traps before gaining admittance.



<span style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px;">Our Library of Imagination would have three floors. The first floor would be constructed of illuminated red glass to symbolize the earth’s core. The second floor would be marble, representing the earth’s crust. Inlaid in the center of the floor would be a large medallion made of precious metals and rare gems.



<span style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px;">The third floor would be clear glass to represent the atmosphere. The ceiling would be a large, oval dome 15m high. In the centre of the dome there would be a 3m long diamond chandelier, symbolizing the sun. The ceiling itself would be a computer screen. Webcams attached to the roof would project images of the sky outside onto the dome ceiling inside (like the ceiling in __Harry Potter__). To connect the third floor to the first and second floors, there would be a hover craft people could ride in. However, if someone is not brave enough to take this form of transportation, there is also a spiral glass staircase that will take people to all the levels of the “earth “(floors of the library), if they are ready to take a leap of faith.



<span style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px;">Our library would also contain a water fall, which would start on the third floor and descend to the main floor. It would pour down the outside of the spiral glass staircase so that when someone goes up or down the stairs, she could stick her hand out and feel the cool water falling endlessly, like time. In the winter, the temperature of the waterfall would decrease so that it could freeze in place and then be warmed in the spring and resume its journey.

=<span style="font-size: 1.4em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;">__Structural Design__ = The outside of the Library would basically be a castle until you walked in. From there it would be a quite high-tech Library with many wings featuring the many items with a central theme for each wing. It would be on an island so it is more private; it would also have several entrances from around the castle so you can start at a different wing. From there, it would be a quite high-tech Library with many wings featuring the many items with a central theme for each wing. Each wing would include a screen where text would be printed along to tell of the theme's evolution and creation.



The interior of each room would be something like this. This would be the basic design, but for each theme there may be different designs and add-ons for the room.


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Each wing would include a screen which text would be printed along to tell of the theme's evolution and creation.

=<span style="font-size: 1.4em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;">**<span style="display: block; font-size: 1.4em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;">__Main items for wing themes in the Library__ ** =

<span style="font-size: 1.066em; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;">__-Famous sculptures__
Famous sculptors have been moulding their sculptures from their imagination since the beginning and trying to get it as close as possible to what they imagined, so sculptures are direct examples of human imagination.

<span style="font-size: 1.066em; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;">__ -Early bicycle __
<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; cursor: pointer; padding-right: 10px;">[] One of the creations from the wheel and axle is the early bicycle. This was one of the first forms of convenient transportations from the wheel and axle. The one in the picture is a Penny-Farthing which is a name for the first type of bicycle with a large front wheel and a smaller rear; this was the first machines that could be called “bicycles”.

<span style="font-size: 1.066em; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;">__ -The wheel. __
This is one of the simplest items we have in our Library of Imagination. The wheel is in our Library because it was included in many different inventions; some examples are the wheelbarrow, bicycle, cars, and planes. This is an example of human imagination because people imagined that they would find a way to speed up transportation so they could travel faster and more conveniently.

<span style="font-size: 1.066em; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;">__ -Movie's plotline. __
Almost all movie plot lines are created directly from imagination (unless it's based on a true story) and some of the most captivating stories of all time are movies.

-__Books. (Hence library)__
Like movies, Books are mainly created completely from imagination.

<span style="font-size: 1.066em; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;">__ -Da Vinci flying machines. __
Da Vinci was one of the most successful early flight seeking inventors of all time and he made several sketches and designs of his machines which he imagined would later bring flight to the world

<span style="font-size: 1.066em; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;">__ -Wright Brothers (flying machine) __
The Wright Brothers were some of the first beings to imagine powered flight and were the first to ever achieve success in their dreams of flying.

<span style="font-size: 1.066em; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;">__ -The first personal computer __
<span style="display: block; font-family: verdana,sans-serif;">Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs created the first mass produced personal computer (PC), they imagined that they could sell a computer to nearly everyone and help them progress.

__-First car replica__
<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; cursor: pointer; padding-right: 10px;">[] Gottlieb Daimler invented the first high speed petrol engine and imagined that he could keep reinventing it and making it better. He attached it to many different methods of transportation, one including the first car which blossomed into the world's largest industry.

====<span style="display: block; font-size: 1.066em; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;">__ - __ __Music__ ==== ====<span style="display: block; font-size: 1.066em; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;">Music is in our Library because it takes imagination to create and compose music, anyone can become musicians, but you need a great deal of imagination. To symbolize music, we would put instruments and songs created by famous composers. ====

====<span style="display: block; font-size: 1.066em; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;">__-Games__ ==== Games were created at a very early time, and may also need imagination to be played. Games come in a wide variety of forms. Such as board games, video games, etc. People can also create new games at any time, but you need imagination to make it fun and entertaining. In our Library we would have ancient games like chess, and present day games like video games.

<span style="font-size: 1.3em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;">**Structure**
The living quarters are above ground. The Library appears to be a sort of temple from the outside. All of this library of imagination is underground, to symbolize all the great ideas being buried, for fear of financial issues or some such reason. As you enter, four glass elevators in an x-shape take you underground to the 4 different wings, to symbolize the paths taken in life. You can also simply pass through, not taking any of the elevators, if you wish to reach the living quarters. Each of the elevators take you to a different wing.

<span style="font-size: 1.3em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;">**Wing 1 - Computers**
Take the southwest elevator to reach the high-tech computer wing. A giant holographic cross-section of a computer dominates the wing. Every part is selectable, and when selected, can be rotated, zoomed in on, and gives a description and function. Different models of computers can be selected to put up on the giant hologram. All this symbolizes the human race's thirst for knowledge. The difference between each computer is fascinating and need-to-know for humans. A computer timeline shows a model of every different type of computer in existence, and shows the year created and who created it. This shows the progress of the human race. All of these computers can be put up on the giant holographic cross-section. A brief biography of all the creators is put above the corresponding computer the person created.



**Wing 2 - Art**

The art gallery of the museum of imagination will consist of three main pieces. The first, being a square based pyramid with the base dimensions of 4 ' by 4 ' and a height of 4'. This "perfect" pyramid would represent hypothetical perfection of an idea that that would exist in human imagination. The Square based pyramid has long been considered the most stable of geometric shapes in existence. This would symbolize the required stability of an idea for it to attain perfection. The tapering of the pyramid symbolizes a multitude of unconnected or clunky ideas that are drawn together, either through necessity or invention to a single, perfect point. For example, if one looked at the computers of the 1940s, he/she would see an ugly abomination, the size of the average living room. Nowadays, we have thin pads that can fit into our pockets and complete the functions of a normal computer. We are now much closer to the top of that pyramid of perfection. To symbolize imperfection, a roughly hewn square based triangular prism that lacks its top. This represents the necessity of invention, for invention essentially closes the gap in between perfection and imperfection. Humanity cannot, and never will be perfect. Yet by using inventions, we make our lives easier.

**Wing 3 - Inventions** This wing has all the sketches, plans, and blueprints for many an invention. Countless ideas are hung from the ceiling, plastered to walls, and put on tables. Actual models for almost every invention is placed next to the blueprint. Many Da Vinci pieces adorn this wing, including his war machines, his music machines, and most of all, his original flying machine. Built perfectly to scale, this machine hangs from the ceiling to symbolize great ideas taking flight. A massive hourglass stands in the middle of the wing. Straight out of the 1600's, in perfect shape, it's 4 meters tall and 1.5 meters wide. The sand inside takes 5 hours to completely trickle out, at which point the hourglass flips, using two large pistons that go through the middl of the hourglass, lock in place, and turn. it takes 1 minute to fully flip. The hourglass symbolizes that ideas take time, but when that time is up, everything is as clear as the upper half of the hourglass.

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<span style="font-size: 1.3em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;">**Wing 4 - Miscellaneous**
The 4th Wing carries items with no real spot in any of the other Wings, such as a giant Rube Goldberg (below), a zero-gravity water model, and a table with quiksilver on it. The Rube Goldberg is a large, usually one-use machine that uses many mechanical pieces to complete one everyday task, such as making lunch, like the one shown.

media type="youtube" key="1kvdq8cRNBM?fs=1" height="385" width="480" This machine symbolizes that most people think that whatever they do won't affect anybody else, when in fact it is the exact opposite. The analogy is that this machine has a linear effect on the person who made it, but could also affect many other people in the long run.

The zero-gravity water model is a symbol for a human's creativity. Should the floating water sphere rupture, it simply comes back together or repairs itself as two seperate bubbles. media type="custom" key="7018073" Quicksilver shows human ideas going on and on, without ever stopping as long as there is drive, with no resistance. The human desire to see things to the end is portrayed perfectly with quicksilver.

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=Library of Imagination=

EXTERIOR~ You will see a run-down garage as you approach my Library. To be granted access inside, you have to have the keys to the red 105-series Spider that's parked in the driveway. Once you put the keys into ignition, the car will drive further into the garage, and you will have begun an imitation of the Jurassic Park ride from Universal Studios. By the end of the ride, you'll have reached the real entrance of the Library. The exterior would be alike to that of Roppongi Hills, Tokyo. I like it's modern and artistic look; especially at Christmas time, where there are lights and colors everywhere. The buildings are high, built like cylinders.

The items I would like in my Library of Imagination, and why ---

❖ THE FIRST MUSICAL SCORE
Music is phenomenal. Just the idea of it is amazing. The fact that someone actually came up with a way to put it in it's own 'language' is really ingenious.

❖ THE FIRST SCULPTURES MADE OF ANCIENT GREEK GODS This is an interpretation of the gods from one of the earliest and most enthralling genres of mythology in history. Ancient Greeks showed how beautiful the felt their gods and goddesses are through their art. Also one of the building blocks of the more 'realistic' art genre.

❖ AN ANCIENT PYRAMID Pyramids are an extraordinary innovation. Astounding that such enormous structures could be built thousands of years ago, when there weren't any cranes, or trucks, etc. Despite their age of more than thousands of years, there are still many pyramids standing from 2575-2150 B.C, and earlier. The Pyramid of Giza is one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World.

❖ SUNDIAL One of the earliest forms of telling the time. Being able to tell time by looking at how the shadow of the sun falls = cool.

❖ COURTNEY de RYSBACH's LETTER A letter written by a German spy during the First World War. Using invisible ink, she wrote a message in between the lines of a musical score.

❖ A HOT AIR BALLOON Hot air balloons are the oldest successful form of human-carrying flight transportation.

❖ A REFRACTING TELESCOPE made by HANS LIPPERSHAY Refracting telescopes were the first telescopes created. The beginning of a useful innovation. Thanks to Lippershay, and two others, we had the 'base' to making telescopes that eventually let us see the moon, etc.

❖ THE MONA LISA PAINTING I think it's rather funny that this painting became so famous and precious to the world. I'm not sure what's so imaginative about it, why people started making a big fuss about it. But I'd like this painting in my library because it sparked people's imaginations,not because the painting itself is incredibly imaginative.

❖ THE 35, 000 YEAR OLD FLUTE This is the first instrument ever! The beginning of something great. It's made out of the bones of a giant vulture.

❖ A CUNEIFORM SCRIPT Cuneiform was the first type of writing known to us people.

INTERIOR~ Inside, the ceilings would be white, the floor made of glass. There would be several levels, the stairs connecting the floors also made of glass, to make the interior seem more open. The walls would be shelves filled with books -- 3/4 of which would be fiction, all for my own reading pleasures. More of the larger artifacts, such as the sculptures and the pyramid, would be placed on the bottom floor. Items that would need special care, like the Mona Lisa, and the Cuneiform script, wold be placed on the top most level. Everything else would be placed alphabetically in the middle levels.Lights would be strewn across the library; all would have bright, obnoxious colors and shapes, none of which would be similar at all❖❖❖ In the very center of the library, there would be a structure that resembled a glass pillar that stretched from the top of the library to the bottom. It would actually be an elevator. All you would have to do is say the artifact that you wanted to go to, and a door would open. The elevator takes you to the correct floor, and just as the doors open again, a slip of paper prints out of a slit in the door, informing you what section of the floor your desired artifact is in.

=<span style="font-size: 1.4em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;">**//__Library of Imagination__//** =

In our library of imagination, numerous extraordinary objects are on display. There are three extraordinary rooms containing various types of creation originated from imagination.

<span style="font-size: 1.3em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;">**Exterior Design**


This is our Library of Imagination. It is built in the shape of a pyramid which comes from the idea of Egyptians; They created this structure completely from imagination. The Pyramid was created as a stairway to reach the Gods as they believed connecting to the Gods was important.

The floor within the pyramid lowers down into the Earth carrying a load of people to view our exibit. This is a modern way of presenting our Library of Imagination in the shape of an ancient architect. In this way, we wanted to connect the modern world with the ancient world.

**Interior Designs and Objects on Display**

**__The first room__** is a room of science. Science is a big part of imagination and we decided to make a seperate room for all the objects that have any connections to science. Once you enter this room, you will be amazed at all the models and orginal copies of scientific objects. Mini models of trains go round and round around the whole room and even the room itself is made in the shape of an engine, containing all the intricate designs. Anyone who enjoys science will fall in love with this room and will refuse to come out. The objects that are on display include the following:

(Without engines, we would not have the transportations that we use frequently now. Engines were first invented by Sir Samuel Morland in 1897. He invented"water engines", and early kind of water pump. He used gunpoweder to activate his engine and it was used to pump up water with less proportion of strength. He even worked on ideas for a steam engine. His pumps were vastly used and were develped for such things as wells, fire fighting and draining wells and ponds.)
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(In our opinion, invention of computers is one of the best things humans have done in the last couple hundred of years. The question everybody asks-"Who invented computers?"-is not a question that can be easily answered with one specific answer. Computer is made up of many complicated parts, each of which were invented by numerous different inventors; therefore, computer was not actually invented by one person. Only one thing we know for sure. It is that the first computer ever made was actually our brains.)
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(Submarines enabled to explore a whole new world under water and discover things never seen before. With this type of transportation, we vastly improved our understand of earth. A lot of invetors tried to create submarines but most of them failed and many died in their experiments. Those inventors include, Wiliam Bourne, Cornelius Jacobzoon Drebbel, and John Wilkins. The first successful submarine was invented by Cornelius Jacobzoon Drebbel, but his model was not very useful.)

media type="youtube" key="uT2dQB_OgFE?fs=1" height="214" width="291" (Airplanes allowed us to travel around world in a very convenient and fast way. Men have wanted to fly for a significantly long time. The first attempts were efforts to fly by flapping their arms, but they were not successful. The first actual success in fling was in hot air balloons. Next inventions were gliders invented by Sir George Cayel. Finally, Orville and Wilbur Wright found a way to make a machine fly without human force. The history of airplanes started from then.)
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(Microscopes helped us discover microorganisms that nobody ever thought existed. Nobody had even thought that there were living organisms that were so small that we can not even see them. The earliest microscopes were nothing but a tube and a lens. About 1590, Zaccharias Janssen and his son Hans discovered while experimenting with lenses that objects appeared enlarged when looked through the lenses. In 1609, Galileo, heard of these experiments and invented a much better early microscope witha focusing device.
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(In our opinion, science fiction books are one of the objects that require the most imagination. Ofcourse, science fiction was orginally came from people's stories which they told to others, but who actually started to write them down is a hard question to answer. Author and editor, Lester del Rey states that the first work of science fiction is the first recorded work of literature, __The Epic of Gilgamesh__, but others argue differently.)
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<span style="background-clip: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; display: block; padding-right: 10px;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; cursor: pointer; padding-right: 10px;">How William Shatner Changed The World media type="custom" key="7029621" width="150" height="150" (Movies like Star Trek were completely from imagination and Star Trek is said to have changed our lives by influencing others to invent objects. For example, Martin Cooper, the inventer of Cellphones was inspired by Star Trek to invent cellphones.)
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**__The second room__** is the smallest, but is our favourite. The objects in this room are all about astronomy. Discovering that Earth was not the only place in the whole wide universe was a chaos. People could not believe it but eventuall had to because it was the truth. However, with lack of accuracy, astronomers stated completely wrong facts and fought each other. We tried to make this room look as similar to space as possible. The ceiling of the room is extremely high and the room is somewhat dark. The ceiling shines with lights in the shape of stars and objects are shown with a ray of blue light. The room includes the following: media type="youtube" key="sI2uWOk25gI?fs=1" height="249" width="363" (Without these space ships we wouldn't have able to actually experience the space outside the Earth. Who would have ever thought that travelling to somewhere other than Earth was possible? Apparently, an inventor named John Hillman Jockenhowser thought it was possible. He invented the first Space ship in 1453. He was a college dropout but he was very intellegent with a load of imagination.)
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(These telescopes enabled us to realize that there was a whole another world up in the space. Before the age of telescopes, nobody had ever thought about looking in to space. Telescopes changed the whole world completely. The earliest known working telescopes were invented in 1608 by Hans Lippershey. Galileo used these telescopes and significantly improved the quality. With his improved instrument, he discovered the satellites of Jupiter, spots on the sun and so on.)
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(Ptolemy develped a theory in astronomy from complete imagination. He thought that the Earth was in was the center of rotation for every planets. Everyone believed this theory until Galileo proved it wrong.)
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__**The Hallway leading from the second room to the third**__ is called the hallway of mathematical equations because it is literally full of mathematic equations. This hallways is also part of the library because the mathematicians could not have invented the equations without their imagination. The equations below are only some of the many equasions written on the wall of this hallway.



__**The third room**__ is the last but not least. This room is the biggest and is the fanciest with gold decoration on the ceiling and luxurious and elegant designs everywhere throughout the room. This room is like a typical library of imagination with loads of books stacked on the shelves. All of thse books contain somekind of information that was essential to our lives long time ago. Antiques are on display all around the room and the objects including the following: (Who would have ever thought that making a musical melody with a stick of wood or metal was possible? It is impossible to determine when musical instruments were actually invented because it was so long ago. Many evidence of muscial instruments have been found but it is impossible tell for sure that they are actually muscial instruments. In 1995, a Solvenian archaeologist Ivan Turk discovered a bone carving that possibly could have been used to play fournotes of a diatonic scale.)
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(Mozart is one of the most well known composers in the world. He had a tremendous musical talent and were able to compose beutiful songs just from his imagination. He was able to imagine how each instruments were going to sound the together. He composed his first piece of music at age of five and his amazing career started from then.)
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(For me, eyeglasses are one of the important things every invented. If there weren't any eyeglasses, many people would not have been able to see. Throughout the history, eyeglasses have been one of the oldest and improved objects in the world. These eye glasses were invented somwhere between 1500 to 1700. They were made of steel and were just simply designed to sit on the wearer's nose. No body had ever though this simple object would benefit millions of people around the world today.)
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All of these objects presented make up our extraordinary Library of Imagination which we have created in our heads. In fact, our whole Library of Imagination is part of many objects presented here, because we, ourselves, created this library with our imagination. We hope we actually get to build our Library of Imagination in reality, containing things that we have listed here for our library.

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Library of Imagination September 13, 2010 By Ben and Ben

Our library would have one floor. It would have glass book cases in a circle around the centre. Where there would be a large computer that held a huge historic database. Right beside the database computer there would be a hot tub. In the computer there would be digital versions of all the old books in the library. Each book case would have a touch screen on the front were you could read how to safely handle the books inside and enter a code to open the book case. Walls and ceiling would be bulletproof glass and one way tinted. There would be alarm systems and video cameras watching inside and outside the library viewed by the database computer. The ceiling has a telescope built in so that you could view space form the database computer.

Our library would contain:
 * <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">The Wright brothers flying machine. We think we should have this machine because it was the first stable flying device.
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 * <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Da Vinci's sketches of the human body. We think we should have Da Vinci's sketches because they gave us great understanding of our muscular system, bones and internal organs.
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 * <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">The Hubble telescope. We would have this in our library because it let's us look into other galaxies billions of light years away.
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 * <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">An ancient bow. We would put this in our library because it was the most common hunting tool or weapon ever invented.
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 * <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">A compass from ancient China. We would have this in our library to because it was the first ever and most used navigational device.
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 * <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">An original book binding from India. We would have this because it enabled us to make books today.
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The First Personal Computer:

The first personal computer was a ground breaking invention because without it the world would not be as it is today. The first computer was a gateway into the new possibilities of inventions; it was a breakthrough that led to the new age of technology we see and use every day. The computer is so complex and takes so much understanding only the smartest and most imaginative minds can create one. The computer has opened up the entire world in the size that can fit into your bag or even your hand. Anything is possible with it - you can access social networking, access art and my favorite share your ideas with the world all on one device. The computer is honestly magnificent it has made almost all other forms of technology possible which has created a sky’s the limit type attitude for inventors, anything and everything is possible. Instead of thinking about what limitations they have instead all they do is imagine the possibilities, all thanks to one invention the computer. So if anything deserves to go into an imagination library the first computer would certainly be one because after all it has led to so many imaginative ideas and will keep doing so for ages as it is certain anybody with a good imagination will have a computer to let their imagination run wild. Since it is possible to create something so awesome and inspiring there are no limits for the future all thanks to one thing the computer.

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The Automobile:

The automobile is a truly revolutionary invention and created a new era for transportation. An automobile is a wheeled vehicle which is used to carry a passenger(s) which also carries its own engine or motor. The automobile is revolutionary because it used one of the most complicated designs to date and utilized one of the most simple yet profoundly useful inventions, the wheel. The automobile is extremely advanced in its nature and because of this we think it has easily earned its spot in the imagination library. The automobile is a unique invention as it utilizes natural resources to create motion using a complex system of gears and cogs which to me make me visualize the essence of imagination. The automobile is an inspired creation which is the ultimate invention to satisfy consumer needs along with the aspiration and desire by the creators to make something out of the box, something original and something only an imagination could think of. To us we think that the sky’s the limit when we look at the remarkable innovations by automobile makers today. Automobiles can park themselves now in some cases. Automobiles have created the world you see today in my mind the automobile is an art, we am sure of this because cars need designers and designers don’t make the newest model, they make a new work of art. Although that may seem a bit abstract, cars are designed just like art and are painted just like art. So if it walks like a duck and talks like a duck it must be a duck, just as automobiles are art. Another thing is automobiles push the limits of human imagination and are always making new challenges to create greener and more fuel efficient cars while at the same time faster and more aerodynamic. In my mind anything that pushes the boundaries of human imagination and is a leader in technology is an easy choice to put in my library of imagination. Ford Model T Advertisement for the Ford Model T

Rube Goldberg Machine:

We believe the Rube Goldberg machine should be in our imagination library for many reasons. One of those reasons being because the Rube Goldberg machine is not a specific design or creation but can be or do whatever you can think up and dream. A Rube Goldberg machine is any machine that is over-engineered and does a simple task in an extremely difficult way. In some cases the objective of one of these machines may be to pour a glass of milk but have 300+ parts. That is one of the reasons we want the Rube Goldberg machine to be in our library of imagination, because it can be anything you want it to be and do anything you want it to do. It’s up to you to do decide, and it’s even up to your imagination to think up crazy possibilities. In a way a Rube Goldberg machine is almost the definition of what should be in a library of imagination because it can be whatever you want it to be. When we think of a Rube Goldberg machine we think of one that we have seen personally but when other persons think of it they may think of a completely different thing. That’s why it is so perfect for the library of imagination, because its interaction is different to everyone depending on different people’s imagination. It’s because it’s not a specific design that we love it so much, the typical invention, if you will, comes with blue prints and plans on how to build it and how to mass produce it. The Goldberg machine cannot be duplicated nor mass produced because it is a single entity, has its own identity and can completely differ from machine to machine. That’s why we know it’s a perfect fit because it has its own personal identity and can differ just like all people have their own identity. We also like the invention because it is pushes the limits of personal imagination and it makes you think and expand and think about human limits and what is truly possible. So not only does it require an imagination to make but also can expand your imagination to new possibilities. We also always connect the human brain to a Rube Goldberg machine because it is so complex and makes you wonder how it works, and we get the same feeling when we watch a Goldberg machine perform a simple task in such a wondrous way.

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The First Modern Camera:

The camera was a truly wondrous and inspiring machine but why should we put it in our imagination library, we will tell you why. One of many reasons that the first modern camera should be in our imagination library is because not only is it a truly remarkable advance in technology but it is also an amazing advance in understanding how an eye works. The camera is complex and that it is why we want it in our imagination library. For something to be complex it needs to have a truly fascinating and imaginative creator and in return be a fascinating and imaginative machine which is what the camera is. The camera offers what the eye can do and more by in turn capturing an image. The eye is an intriguing thing and it is mind boggling thing how and why it works the way it does. To me when something makes me think "hmm we wonder how that works, and why is that like it is?" we know that, that something is a great invention or creation. When we look at a camera that is what we think how could somebody's imagination think up to take the design of a human eye and use that to make a device which could capture in essence an image that a human eye could see. Also we believe it should be in our imagination library because the camera allows to people to express their creativity and release their imagination. Photography is an art form and without the camera, the images would simply die. Not only is the camera a mind blowing invention but it is also one which allows people to express their inner imagination and creativity. Another thing is that a definition of imagination is being able to form a mental image and cameras capture an image which can forever be revisited. So those two things are directly related in that both create mental images, whether they be real or imaginative. First Camera.

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The Hubble Telescope:

The Hubble telescope is a fascinating invention and at all turns is constantly working and re-working my imagination. Because you see to me imagination in part means what kind of image something puts in your head and when we think of the space telescope my imagination runs wild with possibilities: the possibilities of life on another planet or pondering thoughts on the solar system and galaxies. The Hubble telescope was a space telescope put into orbit by a space shuttle. To this day it still takes valuable information for NASA and still pushes the boundaries of lingering questions. For us that is easily enough to put it in any imagination library because it goes beyond the limits of almost any other technology. It studies space, something we know little about and we can for the most only speculate about. The Hubble telescope is easily one of the most imaginative inventions out there because it was made because of curiosity and its purpose was discovery. That’s why we think it should be in the imagination library because it explores one of the littlest known places on earth, space. And space being where people’s minds seem to wonder the most. After all with the imagination of the average person an identity of extra terrestrials has been made. Green men living on mars is the ideal image that people think of when they think of extra terrestrials and this is because of inventions like the Hubble space telescope. It helps us as humans discover things that we could only imagine and that’s why it’s so perfect for the imagination library because it can create a sense of silly child like imagination in the most serious of people. Hubble Telescope.

Image captured by the Hubble Telescope.

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Perpetual Motion Machine:

A perpetual motion machine is something so out there and so edgy that we couldn't help but put it in my imagination library. A perpetual motion machine is something that needs no source of energy to move and theoretically will keep going forever. Perpetual motion machines are so creative because they have no set design and better yet, only a few have ever been made, and even those have been unsuccessful as the motion is not continuous forever. The imagination it takes to make one is immense; there would be no thinking inside the box. That is what we like about it - that truly imaginative ideas don't come from copied ideas or already thought up plans, they come from originality and a great imagination. A perpetual motion machine belongs in an imagination library because it is so unique to other inventions as its only purpose is to keep moving and its design is unset. That is why it should be in the imagination library because the design is completely up to the inventors imagination and in our mind the sky's the limit. Another reason is because of the complexity in which the perpetual motion machine works the amount of parts and most of all the defiance of the laws of physics. The laws of physics state that nothing can move forever without any powers source but we know that one machine has been working since 1996. Because the perpetual motion machine so so unique in its function, building plans or, the lack of it, purpose and most of all its originality. media type="youtube" key="us7YB7eiOeQ" width="425" height="350"

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The Tesla Coil is one of the most inspiring and imaginative designs I have ever seen. The Tesla coil is a type of resonant transformer which produces high frequency, current and voltage electricity. I think the Tesla Coil is one of the most imaginative inventions of all time because some children do not even have wild enough imaginations to think up something as amazing. Although the Tesla Coil has almost no practical functions I personally believe it was built to show off human achievement and the capabilities of machines. This invention is truly inspiring with new age technology and the fantastical light show the Tesla coil is to me easily the most intriguing inventions of all time. The reason I find it so fascinating is because it is so electrifying that I would think only the mind of a child could dream of a tower shooting out electricity but instead was not a dream but a reality, realized by a full grown man. The Tesla Coil is now being used as a visual aid for students taking a music class, as the lightning bolts are inspiring for art and music and most anything creative. One of the things I look for in an invention to go in my imagination library is does it inspire people to do fantastic and wonderful things, does it encourage people to be creative and have an imagination of their own, does it make people think about how they can push the envelope in the future. If the invention does not do that then it will have a hard time getting into my imagination library. So you see although the Tesla Coil has almost no practical function it can still inspire and cause people to be creative and push the envelope. media type="youtube" key="Zi4kXgDBFhw" width="425" height="350"

The Magna Carta:

The Magna Carta, in our minds is an easy choice to put in our Imagination Library because of many reasons. Fisrt of all the Magna Carta is a charter depicting the United Kingdom laws and liberties. The Magna Carta was the first of its time, at that point no other charter had been made at that time. So this book was in a way a pioneer for later generations of law books and liberty charters. This book was in essence the first expression of free speech through law. The Magna Carta led into the rule of constitutional law in the United Kingdom. So in other words although this book was created over 800 years ago it still effects people today. It is still in use today in Wales and England and also has effected us right here in Canada as Canada used to have a constitutional monarchy as a governmental power. Also this law book was in the way it was written and the content it contained also the first of its time. at that point no other such book was written like it was and to create something that is the first ever created is clearly an imaginative and creative piece of art. Since there is nothing like it and also it is such a ground breaking creation that changed the face of law, that is why we chose to put it in our Imagination LIbrary, since it is so unique and creative.

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Mona Lisa:

When people speak of imagination they speak about the image that a certain thing can place in your head without you actually seeing it. Automatically when we think of art our mind jumps straight to the Mona Lisa. The Mona Lisa is a prime example of Renaissance art to us it is one of the greats paintings of all time. The Mona Lisa was painted by Leonardo DaVinci, it was painted in the 16th century using oil and and on a poplar panel. We know the Mona Lisa belongs in the Library of Imagination because the Mona Lisa is incredibly well painted and and it is still one of the most remarkable paintings to date. Not only in the way that the Mona Lisa was painted but the essence of the Mona Lisa the way that it can make your imagination run wild with excitement. Her smile asks a million questions and in the way that the background was painted the Mona Lisa makes us wonder every time why the mysterious background was drawn, and what does it mean? Finally without a doubt Leonardo DaVinci created a one of a kind creation, not only was it original but extremely imaginative.

The Wheel:

The wheel is said to be one of the greatest inventions of all time and not only is it one of the greatest inventions of all time but also one of the most unique and imaginative. At such a primative time, a creation like the wheel was so unexpected. The wheel is one of the greatest inventions ever because it gave man the ability to transport quickly and efficiently. At this point you’re probably wondering why the wheel is special. In two dimension it’s just a simple circle. At that you would be wrong. The wheel is special in every way because nothing like it had ever been invented before and it was the first of a kind. The wheel is not only used for transportation though, in fact wheels are everywhere in the world and because it is such a versatile invention it can be used for whatever your mind can think up. If you want the wheel to be used for fashion – wheelie runners - it can just as it can be used for almost anything else. An invention that requires an imagination to use and find an applicable use for is truly ingenious because in a way as it is adapted for personal needs each modification is as if it’s a brand new invention. Another reason the wheel is so great is because when we imagine a wheel, we imagine something round and wooden but not all wheels are the same. In fact most wheels are different! We think that’s amazing because in your imagination the wheel can look like, be attached to or made out of anything you can imagine and that’s what we believe the imagination library is truly about. We also like this invention a lot because it is so commonly used and since there are so many applications this invention is without a doubt a fantastic object. The wheel can be found just about anywhere in the streets in your house almost anywhere. That’s why I think the wheel would be a great addition to the library of imagination. Stone Age Wheel.

Wooden Wheel.

Tire.

Interior Architecture

The inside of our Library of Imagination is a large circular room that is surrounded by windows looking out over the city. Each artifact has its own section of the library all stretching out around the library pushed up against the windows. We wanted to do this to make visitors think about the global affect each of these items have made not just around the world, but right where they live. The floor is made of glass so that visitors get the affect that they are in someones mind that is racing with great ideas. Beside the artifact is a brief description of why we believe it belongs in our library.

External Architecture

For our Library of Imagination we chose to have it elevated into the sky, to represent that the people who came up these great ideas and discoveries, had to reach for the sky to have them become a reality. We also wanted our library to be elevated in the sky to show how everyone's ideas are floating around them in their brains and how important it is to actually try to make their dreams reality. Leading up to our library is a structure with eight pillars all feeding into our library to symbolize someones ideas all fitting together like puzzle pieces holding up and supporting the main idea. Windows in the library allow visitors to see out into the world that the very artifacts they are standing beside has changed.



n our library of imagination, we have various objects that have been created because of human imagination.

Design: Exterior: The exterior of our Library of Imagination is very similar to Antonio Gaudi's architecture. The complete exterior is built with no straight lines, only curves, and is covered in colorful mosaics. From afar, you can see that the mosaic constructs a picture of _

When you enter our library, the first thing you see is a big brown box in the middle of the room. Placed evenly around and on top of the box are all the inventions from our Library of Imagination. This symbolizes outside-of-the-box thinking.

If you continue walking through the library, you come to an ornate stone staircase. This leads up to a small round room that represents all of the revolutionary ideas from our library of imagination.

Items:

1) The Wheel It is probably the most useful invention of all time. Without the wheel, life would be in a standstill. It would not be possible to build houses, move heavy things, travel long distances in a short period of time or trade goods far and wide. The invention of the wheel provided a passage for pottery, agriculture and jet engines.  Spinning Wheel:

Pottery Wheel

2) Human flight When Leonardo de Vinci was alive, he tried to invent practical solutions to human flight. He built machines with the same structures as birds. Although his machines never functioned properly, these ideas led to inventors inventing more functional solutions to flight.



3) Video Camera In 1951, the first video camera was invented by Charles Ginsburg. The video camera was a great step for human imagination, because it allowed people to keep visual memories of important events. It allowed middle class people to experience the beauty of the world, without having to travel, and it was able to entertain people.

This is one of the first modl's of photography cameras. One of the first video cameras.

4) Magna Carta The Magna Carta was the first step towards democracy. Before the Magna Carta, England was ruled by a monarchy, and the king had complete control over the country. In 1215, King John was forced to sign the Magna Carta by barons, because he had taken advantage of his power. The Magna Carta was written so that life could be more fair for peasants, who had been taken advantage of by King John. Some of the rules on the Magna Carta are that all people convicted of a crime are entitled to a fair trial, and that the King cannot pass any bills or taxes without approval of the court.

Magna Carta

5) Civil Rights Because of Civil Rights, oppression was lifted off of African-American people in the US. All people were allowed to go to school and university, and no one was forced into segregation. All citizens were given political and social equality.

6) Weapons Countries with the most powerful weapons have much more power than countries with less advanced weapons. Weapons have gone through a huge evolution, from being made out of the users surroundings to being able to destroy a whole city. 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8) Telephone Many inventors contributed to the invention of the telephone. The invention of the telephone was so revolutionary because it allowed people to communicate with each other faster than mailing letters. It allowed for both people, one on each end, to be able to hear what the other has to say, and it allowed important messages to be received immediately.

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// The telescope was an important invention because scientists were able to learn more about outer space // // 10) Antonio Gaudi's architecture //

// http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5BSixChAvBY //

// 11) Darwinism //

// While in the Galapagos, Charles Darwin imagined that all life wasn't created by God. This led to the idea, of evolution. This idea was so revolutionary because before, the Catholic Church had convinced everyone that all living things were made by God, and Darwin had evidence that that wasn't the case. //

// 13) Vaccines //

// The first vaccine was used in 1770 by Edward Jenner to treat smallpox. To treat smallpox, Edward Jenner extracted a small amount of cowpox and injected it into his patient, so that the patient's body had already created white blood cells to treat smallpox when he got it. //

// 14) Microscope //

// 15) Pasturization //

// 16) Electric Car //

// 17) Recycling //

// 18) Aquaducts //

// 19) Anasthetic //

// 20) X-ray //

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// 1. The original script for the movie "Citizen Cane" because it has influenced most movies that came after it. // media type="youtube" key="zyv19bg0scg?fs=1" height="385" width="480" // 2. The Breguet watch that Napoleon wore because it's the hight of elegance, class, and genius. //



// 3. Napoleon's tomb because he was one of the greatest thinkers of all time. // // 4. Winston Churchill's cane because he had a genius political mind. He was the ultimate human being, he loved his country so much that he made some unpopular choices because he thought he was doing what was right for his country. // // 5. The "Last Supper" painting because it's so influential on so many paintings after. // // 6. A big picture of the Oakland A's team of 1972 because they showed a lot of heart in the face of adversity, Oakland hadn't won a world championship since 1930. // // 7. A piece of the great wall of china because it took so much imagination to even have the idea of a wall going around a whole country. // // 8. The original Pac Man game because whoever created it must have been a genius // media type="youtube" key="FWRs6X3y310?fs=1" height="385" width="480"

// 9. A rock from the moon because it took a lot of imagination for someone to thing that humans could travel to the moon // // 10. the original plane the Wright brother's flew because people had tried to fly for so long and they finally broke the barrier //

==<span style="font-size: 1.3em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;">**<span style="font-size: 1.3em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;"> __The Guggenheim museum, New York__ ** ==

// We chose the Guggenheim museum in New York as the place for our museum because we thought we couldn't create anything more imaginative. The building itself is a piece of art with it's one of a kind design. It's location is in New York one of the most innovated and fast moving cities in the world. //

Our library of Imagination would be a collection of different styles and elements. Beside the building, there would also be an area outside of the library where items that could not fit inside would be. The decor of the library would include lots of glass and wood, making it modern while keeping a historic feel to it at the same time. There would be hard wood floors, lots of big windows, and skylights. There would be multiple sections and floors to the library. Items would be grouped by genre, and would be in different sections of the library. Depending on where you were in the library, you could study, interact, find out more about the items, and there would be multiple tours a day. In our library, there would be everything from African drums to an original copy of Pride and Prejudice to the Mona Lisa, as well as a conservatory and an art gallery.



One of the many subjects in our library would be music. There would be music from all eras and places with instruments common to that time. Music is a very important thing in culture and in human nature. It reflects on how we feel, and can change the mood of others. It adds dynamic to a play or movie and it can send a message to the world. Also, it is important to sports such as dance and synchronized swimming. People use music to express their feelings. Items that would be in the library are things like african drums, an aulos, a hydraulic organ, strings instruments from the baroque period and all sorts of record and CD players.



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Technology is very important, and we would have many examples of it in our library. As the years have gone by, people's minds have expanded and the best inventions in history have resulted in that. We use technology every day, and use it for everything from communicating to expanding our knowledge. There would be lots of items that we would like to display, and some of them include vintage telephones, typewriters, telegraph machines, and gramophones. Along with older technology, there would be items we use today such as ipods, cellphones and computers.



http://www.apple.com/mac/

Art comes ﻿ in a variety of forms, all of which are full of showing inner feelings and passion.We would display many items from different time periods and from all over the world, in different styles, like paintings, sculptures, pottery, and photography. Art is a way of expressing yourself in a different way than through writing or music. It lets you show others your interpretations, and allows you to express to others your feelings or send a message without using words. Also, before they had photographs, the only way to create an image of someone or something was through art. In our library, we would have many famous pieces of art, such as The Mona Lisa, Starry Night, and Girl with a Pearl Earring. There would also be items such as pottery from ancient civilizations, and modern pieces of photography.

http://www.vangoghgallery.com/painting/starryindex.html





Literature would be a very important part of our library. As in all other libraries, ours would have books, such as vintage copies of books such as Pride and Prejudice, Jane Eyre, and the complete works of William Shakespeare. We would also have examples of cuneiform, the first type of writing, The Epic of Gilgamesh, which is often credited as the first fictional piece of writing, along with the world's most famous books, poems, religious texts and short stories.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pride_and_Prejudice

http://gilgamesh.psnc.pl/

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OuBmLOgMwd4

http://hubpages.com/hub/Gazing-in-Giza
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http://www.ausbcomp.com/~bbott/cars/carhist.htm
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The Library of Imagination that we have created was not only made for displaying artifacts of human imagination, but also to let patrons create their own; as you will see from our "Tree Top Theme" and it's metaphor of an idea. When you observe the many items in our library, you will notice the diversity between them, and the different concepts of imagination they each portray. So now we shall give you a brief tour of our library.
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1. Blob of Clay - We chose this object because it shows how your ideas can transform into whatever you want them to be, in this scenario the unshaped blob is your imagination. A blob of clay has lots of potential, and you have the power to shape it into whatever you want.

2. Plants - We chose plants because it represents the evolution and growth of an idea. It starts off as a seed, then takes root in your mind then grows into such a great idea you can't get rid of it. (video is on Ryley's)

3. Famous Novels __without__ pictures - This will permit readers of these books to use their imaginations by creating an image of the scenes and characters from the book.



4. The Rosetta Stone - The rosetta stone is a landmark in imagination and invention history because of the language encrypted on it. It takes sheer genius and creativity to come up with language, look at the french language for example. It is so diverse and has such an array of words that it's a wonder that somebody actually made it, and now it is one of the most spoken languages in the world. <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; cursor: pointer; padding-right: 10px;">Rosetta Stone Info

5. Blueprints of Famous Inventions - We would add these artefacts because they would showcase some of the greatest imaginations throughout history. From Leonardo Davinci's weapons to The Wright brother's airplane (Look at famous inventors link below).



6. Cafe with Different Meals Each Day - Not only would this cafe be healthy, it would inspire our chefs to use their culinary imaginations to come up with different meals, each unique. It would be like eating little bits of imagination! The cafe would have the same theme as the rest of the library.



7. Biographies of Famous Inventors - We would have these biographies to showcase some of the greatest minds throughout history. The biographies of Alexander Graham Bell, Leonardo Da Vinci and many more would be included in our library.

Here are some links of samples of these biographies, <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; cursor: pointer; padding-right: 10px;">[|Leonardo Da Vinci], <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; cursor: pointer; padding-right: 10px;">[|Alexander Graham Bell] , <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; cursor: pointer; padding-right: 10px;">[|Thomas Edison]. For many more inventors, and their inventions (see 5. above), click <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; cursor: pointer; padding-right: 10px;">[|here].

8. Mozart Compositions, Written and Playing - We chose these objects because we think it would take an exceptional amount of imagination and intelligence to create and to note such amazing and complex sounds. The most astonising part of all is that even when he became deaf the music remained played forever in his imagination which let him to continue on doing what he enjoys most. Here is one of his pieces...

9. Famous Paintings - We chose these objects because they show visual imagination in the form of brush strokes, paint and a canvas. Preferably Picasso, because he had a very unique imagination which allowed him to interpret all that we see in a completely different manner. When you observe his later paintings, you can see they're all drawn, as if looked at from all different angles and perspectives. For more famous painters, click <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; cursor: pointer; padding-right: 10px;">[|here].



10. Artifacts from Ancient Civilizations - We chose these objects because they show the first inventors and the range of their imaginations. Take the egyptians for example, they created so many tools to make life easier; it's amazing how they invented them so long ago.

11. Hubble Space Telescope and Photos - We would put these on display because one day, someone wondered what was out there in the deep bowels of space, imagined so to say. Thanks to Hubble, now we have millions of images at our fingertips, which encouraged us to send out space craft to other planets. Which led to finding water on Mars, and it only makes you wonder, what else is out there? <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; cursor: pointer; padding-right: 10px;">[|Hubble Info]

And now to explain the design and theme of our library. Our building would be shaped like a giant lightbulb, it would be solid on the sides, covered with murals by famous artists. (see 9. above) The top of the structure would be a skylight, with the Hubble Telescope visible from a distance through the skylight, with a glass ring for viewing around it with hundreds of pictures of space on stands. For the interior of the building we were thinking of having towers shaped like trees because it highlights the metaphor of plants and ideas above (see 2.). Inside the trees we would have spiral staircases extending to the top, where there would be flat surfaces where trees would be connected by bridges or other cool obstacle course items. This would let people let their imaginations run wild as they would be scaling the equipment pretending to be monkeys or kids again. Inside the trees would be the objects of interest (see above) on different levels of the tree, connected by the ascending spiral staircase in each tree. They're would also be elevators for the elderly. The floor would be flooded with water to give it a more beautiful sensation. To get to the base of each tree you would take small paddleboats or other floating transportation. There would also be bridges connecting the trees covered with net to bounce possible falling people away from a solid object. We hope you have a good image inside your mind of what our theme would look like, because for the sake of imagination, we will not show any pictures or drawings of it. In our human library of imagination we have many items that symbolize human achievement, history, discoveries, and things that stimulate the mind and imagination. <span style="color: #a324a3; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">These are the things we would like to have in our library of imagination:

<span style="color: #a324a3; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> 1. We would like anything to do with religion or mythology (old bibles, etc) because we find the theory's people come up with to explain things they can't understand (eg, why it rains) very interesting. <span style="color: #a324a3; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: 0px; margin: 0px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden; padding: 0px;">

<span style="color: #a324a3; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> 2. Artwork from famous artists that make you want to stop and stare because they display the emotions, stories and thoughts of people through amazing creativity and imagination. <span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; color: #000000; cursor: pointer; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 0px;"> [|Youtube: Paintings of Salvador Dali]

<span style="color: #a324a3; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> 3.We both wanted some of the very first musical instruments, because inventing something that may just be a wooden box with strings and having some sort of idea that it will have the capacity to create beautiful music is fascinating. We also find it amazing how much effort they put into the making of musical instruments hundreds of years ago, and how they were all pretty much works of art. Just like art, music is another way for someone to express emotions and stories. Not only that but it is also a great entertainment that everyone can enjoy. <span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">

<span style="color: #a324a3; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> 4. Leonardo da Vinci's journal had about 1300 pages of notes and drawings that were made throughout his life and travels. It contained paintings, studies of detail and drapery, studies of faces and emotions, of animals, babies, dissections, plant studies, rock formations., whirl pools, war machines, helicopters, architecture, designs for wings, and shoes for walking on water. This belongs in our library of imagination because all of his studies in natural philosophy, engineering and artwork were all recorded in here because he used his knowledge and imagination as he observed the world around him. <span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">

<span style="color: #a324a3; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> 5. We would also like to have any existing records of the conviction of people who had the bravery to believe something outrageous to many people at the time, like that the world is actually round, not flat. These people must have had a great imagination and a lot of courage to defy many people to stand up for their beliefs. <span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">

<span style="color: #a324a3; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> 6. The first man made machines that could travel into space so humans could discover the universe around us. Before, there was no point to even think about going into space. Now we are trying to terraform other inhabitable planets so we will be able to live on them. This definatley goes to show that imagination can take the mind wherever it desires. <span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="color: #a324a3; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">7. Ancient appliances. When I was in the Pompeii museum last year, I noticed that in Pompeii two thousand years ago they used many of the same things as we do today, like keys, faucets, and even muffin tins. I think it's amazing how people so long ago came up with these great ideas and inventions that are still used all over the world. <span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">

<span style="color: #a324a3; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> 8. The Rosetta Stone. We think this deserves to be in our library of imagination because it was the basis of decoding the Egyptian hyroglyphs. With the stone, people have been able to discover and learn more about the culture and life in ancient Egypt. <span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; color: #000000; cursor: pointer; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 0px;"> [|All About the Rosetta Stone]

<span style="color: #a324a3; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> 9. If it were possible, we would like to have one of the very first wheels created. The wheel (invented about 5000 BCE) is an amazing invention for it's simplicity and and practicality. The people who made and used the first wheels, must have imagined it as a great way to make work and moving things easier. Therefor we definitely believe it belongs in our library of imagination. <span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">

<span style="color: #a324a3; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> 10. Gandhi's spectacles because they're iconic and they bring to mind Gandhi's great capacity to imagine victory over the British by non violent means. <span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">

<span style="color: #a324a3; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> 11. We want Sigmund Freud's first edition of Interpretation of Dreams. It was his Magnum Opus published in 1900. It only sold 351 copies, and went out print, yet it was a massive influence on the way humans knew themselves for the next hundred years. He and his associates created the science of psychology, and he was know as the grandfather of psychology. We want his this book, his greatest work, in our library because of the way Freud changed things. In the book, he tries to show people a phycological method to interpreting the meaning of dreams. <span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">

<span style="color: #a324a3; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Building: ~ glass roof so you can always see the sky ~ 3 floors - floor floor is all artwork and instruments - second floor is for items like ancient appliences, the first wheel, Ghandi's spectacles, and the Rosetta stone - third floor has all the records, bibles, Sigmund's books, and Leonardo's journal with real models of some of his ideas.(eg. his aircraft design could hang from the ceiling) <span style="color: #a324a3; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">~ tons of glass bridges and stairways interconnecting the levels ~ a planetarium with interactive space rovers ~lounge areas facing the artwork on the walls ~a pillar in the middle of the floor to the roof with some inspiring quotes about imagination engraved on it like:"Tthe real source of wealth and capital in this new era is not material things...it's the human mind, the human spirit, the human imagination and our faith in future" - Steve Forbes"Imagine all the people living life in peace. You may say I am a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you will join us so the world will live as one." - John Lennon"You can't depend on your eyes if you imagination is out of focus." - MarkTwain"What is proved now was once imagined." - William Blake"It's kinda fun to do the impossible." -Walt Disney"Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh the thinks you can think up if ony you try." - Dr. Seuss"Everything you can imagine is real." - Pablo Picaso"Nothing happens unless we first dream." - Carl Sandburg For our objects, we chose things that we thought represented imagination and the potential of the human race.

FLOOR 1 OF OUR BUILDING - IN THE PAST TIMES


 * 1) <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">The f<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; cursor: pointer; padding-right: 10px;">irst telescope that Galileo created to help further our knowledge of space and the universe, to show that even in the past, people still wanted to know more and more.
 * 2) <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; cursor: pointer; padding-right: 10px;">Ptolemy's map, which is an upgraded type of map that sailors in the Renaissance period used to help navigate the oceans, to show once again, people wanted to know more about our world, in space, and in the seemingly endless oceans.
 * 3) <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">The model of the new ships they created, called <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; cursor: pointer; padding-right: 10px;">Caravels, to be able to sail faster, due to a new shape of sails, and because of the type of wood they used, and the shape of the body, they were able to stand up to a harsher beating of the storms at sea. We chose this because they were invented near the time of Ptomely's map, so that together, they could sail faster and reach new places, so that further generations of the human race would know more about where everything is in the world.
 * 4) <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">The Wright Brothers' first <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; cursor: pointer; padding-right: 10px;">plane that flew in Kitty Hawk, representing the brothers' hard work and will to succeed.

FLOOR 2 OF OUR BUILDING - IN THE PRESENT


 * 1) <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Some interesting brain puzzles, like <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; cursor: pointer; padding-right: 10px;">optical illusions, to show that our eyes and brain cannot see everything, sometimes you need your imagination to help fill things in.
 * 2) <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">A copy of the missile that<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; cursor: pointer; padding-right: 10px;"> N.A.S.A. shot at the moon, representing the wanting for knowing whether or not there is water on the moon.
 * 3) <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">The rocket that was the first to go to the moon, called <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; cursor: pointer; padding-right: 10px;">Lunik II, because it represents knowledge and evolution of technology, and also shows advancement, from Galileo's wish to know about space to actually going to space itself.
 * 4) <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; cursor: pointer; padding-right: 10px;">Stonehenge, because it represents the air of mystery that still confuses the human race.

FLOOR 3 OF OUR BUILDING - IN THE FUTURE
 * 1) <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">The evolution of technology, as in <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; cursor: pointer; padding-right: 10px;">computers and <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; cursor: pointer; padding-right: 10px;">televisions, to show that while the human race ripened with new knowledge, the technology and inventions were also racing along with us.
 * 2) <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Last but not least, we'd have the <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; cursor: pointer; padding-right: 10px;">evolution of transportation, from horse-drawn carriages to convertibles, to (hopefully) flying cars in the future. This is to show that as humans evolve, they require better and stronger forms of transportation that can get them to their destination faster.

OUR BUILDING ITSELF

We figured that for our building, we would have it be the spitting image of the Greek Colosseum, to show how man wanted entertainment, so they took many long years to build it just to have fun in it. On the inside of our building, we made it so the the first floor has the inventions from the past times, so we would make it look old. The second floor would be present time things, so the room would look like a normal room now. The top floor would have a very futuristic appeal to it, because inside it would be technological things and machinery. That is a run through of what our building would look like.

__Library of Human Imagination__

__The Museum Building:__ The building that houses my library of imagination, known as __Imagination Tower__, represents an idea that has been around for thousands of years: the bigger, the better. In every age someone would build the biggest thing possible in their time, and if it was already built then they would try to make a bigger thing possible. This lead to many advances in architecture, and as a result astonishingly high building are commonplace in most large cities. The size of Imagination Tower is proof of how a little idea can lead to great advances that eventually result in a positive contribution to humanity, in this case saving lots of space. The tower also means that we can organize Items in chronological order, starting at the bottom and going up. This reflects how the imagination needs something to build on in order to reach new heights. The "floating" wing of Imagination Tower (that bit sticking off to the side) isn't really practical and it doesn't look particularly nice, so why is it there? Most importantly, it represent one of the main reasons that people attempt difficult feats, whether in architecture, art or anything else, a simple yet powerful drive: people do things because they can. //This is probably because the human imagination is not satisfied with theoretical proof of the ability to do something when physical proof is possible. The floating wing also represents the power and persistence of the imagination, without which people would have given up on trying to build things like this irregular piece of architecture.//

// The giant flag hanging near the top of the tower not only expresses pride in our country, but also represents symbolism. Symbolism is central to all art. In fact, almost all art is a form of symbolism. Since art is almost //the //embodiment imagination, symbolism is a concept that must be included in a library of imagination.// // The dome atop Imagination Tower is a 3D Omnimax theatre. Hundreds of years ago the concept of a moving picture would have seemed ludicrous, yet now humungous three-dimensional moving pictures with sophisticated accompanying sound systems are reality. This is the power of the human imagination. The dome is also covered in solar panels, partially powering the building. These solar panels also represent the way that the human imagination can be used to solve a problem, such as the problem of finding a renewable energy source. // // Inside the museum is a maze of hallways with lots of glass and mirrors. This requires visitors to use their imagination to find their way through the building. It also represents the way that the human imagination overcomes obstacles and gaoes in many different directions before arriving at an idea. // // In terms of practicality, Imagination Tower is a perfect home to the library of imagination. The great hight saves lots of space, and offers an inspiring view from the top floors. The 3D Omnimax theatre is perfect for showing informative movies and generating some revenue from concession sales. The building saves money on power by generating solar electricity. The floating wing is a useful helipad, and also makes the building unique and recognizable. This means that postcards showing Imagination Tower can also generate a bit of revenue. The maze inside may not be practical, but if the lobby gives out free maps, it shouldn't be a problem, plus everyone will get a free souvenir. //

// __Exhibits in our museum:__ //

// __1 - The Stone Age Room:__ //



// The pottery in this room shows that things made thousands of years ago by ancient humans are still covered in simple yet beautiful designs. This is proof of how the imagination has been the same for thousands of years. // // The complex stone age armor displayed here shows that humans were just as intelligent thousands of years ago as they are now, and even with limited materials could create protective, yet flexible armor. In fact, the system of interlocking stone squares shown here is in some ways more complicated than armor of the middle ages. //

// __2 - The Globe Room__: //



// This room embodies one of the most outrageous, yet true, ideas that any human has ever been able to grasp. This is the fact of the earth's curvature. The earth seems entirely flat, and if it were round people should fall off. Therefore, it took great imagination for the idea of a round earth to even enter someone's head, and even more to prove it. The shelf behind the viewpoint of the camera contains everything from ancient greek scrolls proving that the earth is round to photos of the earth taken from the moon. The globe symbolizes the idea of a round earth. //

// __3 - The Non-Human Intelligence Room:__ //



// Despite the fact that there is no strong evidence to suggest fairies, aliens, or other non-human intelligent life, many people still believe in it. This shows how imaginations all throughout history have felt alone on this planet, with only other humans to talk to. It also shows that the human imagination will work hard to prove that anything it wants to be true is true, even if it isn't. This room contains some evidence, which may or may not be genuine, that suggests extra-terrestrial life. //

// __4 - The Cantaloupe Room:__ //



// This room contains a cantaloupe. A cantaloupe may seem to have no relevance to the human imagination, but the fact of its irrelevance is why it is relevant. Without imagination, categories or themes cannot exist, and as such irrelevance cannot exist. This cantaloupe is proof of both the ability to classify things and the ability to make difficult connections, such as finding relevance out of irrelevance. //

// __5 - Stone boat:__ //



// Rock is one of the materials most known for sinking. However, the enterprising human imagination has actually managed to construct boats from stone, which is a testament to the way the human imagination forgets about what is "impossible" and does it anyways. Obviously the museum cannot fit a real stone boat, but there is a library containing, among other things, photos and schematics of stone boats. //

// __6 - The Glass Bottomed Room:__ //



// This room in the floating wing gives the impression of flying above the city, about to fall at any moment. This will induce in many people a fear of heights. Fear is meant to warn us when something is unsafe, but like many other bodily safety systems it can often work against us by telling us we are in danger when we aren't. This room represents irrational fear and how the imagination has downsides. //

// __7 - The Aviation Room:__ //



// This room contains posters and models illustrating the history of human flight. Centuries ago it was an accepted fact that humans could never fly, yet now people can fly to see relatives or a take an overseas vacation without unreasonable expense. People can even go into space for only a few hundred thousand dollars. Aviation is similar to the stone boat in that it represents how the human imagination can accomplish impossible tasks. //

// __8 - The Old Radio Room:__ //



// This room represents the evolution of technology. Electronic & electric devices, like radios, used to be extremely bulky and not very functional, but worked never the less. Still, people worked radios them and improved them until they could be carried in a pocket, with much clearer sound and more functions. This represents how the human imagination values improving existing technology almost as highly as inventing new technology. //

// __The Technology Room:__ //



// At the top of Imagination Tower, this room contains links to the websites of products that the Museum recognizes as examples of imagination. The main two are the following. //

// __9 - Mindstorms NXT:__ // // Robots were once a fanciful idea, but now any child can make their own robot out of Lego. This represents how the human imagination is enterprising enough to make some of the most advanced technology of the time available to everyone, including children // //<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 0px;">[|NXT Website] //

// __10 - iPhone 4:__ // // The iphone is something that no one even a hundred years ago could have imagined. Lots of new hardware and software and at least two new materials were developed for the iPhone 4. This represents the lengths that the imagination will go to to make something that people don't actually need. This also represents how something seemingly impossible can come about relatively quickly (at least compared to how long some inventions took from conception to completion). // // The link to the iPhone website is in the above picture. //

// __Museum Rules:__ //

// The Library of Human Imagination tries to allow interaction with the exhibits whenever possible. However, due to the fragile nature of some exhibits, touching and photography must be prohibited. Fragile exhibits are clearly marked and rigged with alarms. Besides the exhibits shown above, there are many more, interactive, exhibits. //

// __Other:__ //

// City background photo from photoeverywhere.com // // Other photos from Wikimedia Commons and own photo library. //

// All images are available under the GNU free usage licence (Basically, you can do whatever you want with them as long as you make them available under the same licence. Look it up.) //

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">The Octagon of Imagination

__** Stone age wing **__**exhibit #1 Items representing the elements and how they forced humans to survive**We think that this exhibit is important to have because they have forced humansto be creative in order to live.**exhibit #2 clothing**The invention of clothing is probably one of the most important inventions of alltime and it truly shows the extent of the human imagination.**exhibit #3 weapons and traps**We think that without the primitive weapons and traps that the stone age men inventedthere would be no us.__** Ancient world wing **__**exhibit #1 pyramids**The pyramids built by the egyptians and the ancient mayans are some of the mostcreative designs ever made and they truly inspire human imagination.**exhibit #2 anatomy**This exhibit shows how much our understanding of how we work and how other beingsworked evolved in this time and how it will keep on evolving it the present day.**exhibit #3 roman architecture**We think that roman architecture was very creative because they imagined uniqueconcepts using math that are still used in buildings today.**exhibit #4 clothing**The clothing in the ancient world was innovative in how they created their clothes forexample they started dying their clothes using plant and animal pigments/dyes and they alsograsped the concept that lighter colors are colder than darker colors.__** Medieval wing **__**exhibit #1 weapons**In the medieval age people were fighting for power more often. This lead to the invention ofmore efficient ways to kill people to steal their power which ties in nicely with the class theme. **exhibit #2 food**this exhibit shows how our food and how we prepare it using our creativity reflects us as a race.**exhibit #3 clothing**The invention of better weapons in the middle ages also sparked the inventions of ways toprotect against the weapons which ended up with the creation of efficient armor.__** Renaissance wing **__**exhibit #1 telescope**The invention of the telescope was great because it allowed humans to look up at the skiesand imagine what could be out there.**exhibit #2 printing press**The printing press was revolutionary device because it sparked the industrial revolution whichis one of the most important events in history.** exhibit #3 important and creative people ** in this exhibit we feature was statues of important and famous people who helpedshape our world into what is is today with their creativity and curiosity. ** exhibit #4 famous and important works of art ** This exhibit displays copies and origanals of famous and important works of art from paintings to sculputersto music __** Victorian wing **__**exhibit #1 evolution of some house hold objects**The evolution of some house hold items really shows how humans strive to do better in theirown creations.**exhibit #2 lightbulb**The invention of the lightbulb is one of the most imaginative inventions evermade because it allowed humans to have light without a fire for the first time ever.** exhibit #3 educational facilities ** this exhibit shows how the people of the Victorian Age wanted to evolve a child's creativy. __** Present wing **__**exhibit #1 intriguing modern technology and ob** In this exhibit we think that there should be many interesting objects such as magnets repelling each other because these items always make humans imagine the impossible.media type="youtube" key="OsW8zctD7CM?fs=1" height="305" width="482"**exhibit #2 architecture**this exhibit hold's scale models of buildings that push the boundaries of our race's creativity and the lawsof physics.**exhibit #3 world records**here world records are made, shown in videos, and shown in pictures. this exhibit shows how far we willgo to push the boundraries. **exhibit #4 clothing**The final clothing exhibit will show how much modern clothing has evolved compared to how clothingduring earlier history.__** Misc. wing **__**exhibit #1 religons**this exhibit shows the world's different religons from around the world and from every time period.this exhibit will include real artifacts and models.**exhibit #2 useless inventions through the ages**this includes really random inventions like the chop stick fan to the sham wow. and failed inventions**exhibit #3 books,scrolls,tablets...**this exhibit displays a huge collection of literary work from around the world and times. this showsthe infinant creativity of ther human mind. some litrary work are aloud to be read and touched. **exhibit #4 mash**This exhibit will be a mash up of history, hands on items, facts about the exhibits in the other wings. **A certian wing in the Octagon of Imagination will be selected every month to host the****Ever Changing Mind exhibit. This special exhibit will change every month and may not****obviously fit into the wing theme. This exhibit will once a year be chosen by the visitors****of the Octagon of Imagination.** ** WARNING! some exhibits of the Octagon of Imagination may be found disturbing or insulting **** to some visitors. All complants may be submited anonymously to the Octagon's website. **

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Octagon of Imagination building __** Stone age wing **__
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__** Ancient world wing **__
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__** Medieval wing **__ ** Renaissance wing **
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** Victorian wing **


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** Present wing **


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** Misc. wing **

> ====<span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 1.066em; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;">1. Small Scale Model of the First Working Spaceship - We'd put this in our museum because it shows how we were once very narrow minded and only thought our community was the world. Then we opened our minds and we ventured out, not just out of our country, our universe. After years of research and failed moon-landing tests, on July 20, 1969, the United State's Apollo 11 was the first manned mission to land on the Moon. Because of its extreme difficulty and otherworldly nature, the first successful Moon landing is seen as being one of humanity's greatest achievements, A new era for mankind. ==== > >   > <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; cursor: pointer; display: block; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 0px;">[] > [] > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RMINSD7MmT4 ====<span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 1.066em; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;">2. A Fake Human Brain - Every human being has vital senses: sight, hearing, touch, smell, etc., which lets us know what is going on around us making it possible to survive on this planet. Human Imagination is an additional sense, a special one that allows humans to reach much deeper into the mysteries of reality and become aware of the many wonders of nature. Imagination is not a vital sense, the Hominids survived for million of years without human Imagination. The Neanderthals may have had a powerful brain but they lacked the creative power of 'Human Imagination' that humans these days possess. Although there is no way of physically showing a mind, a brain is what controls the functions of your body and mind and without a brain we would not have this special sense, so after gaining more knowledge and evolution of the human brain, this is how human beings figured out what imagination is, and that is why we decided to put a fake brain model in our library. ====
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> > > **3.** <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Modern day fiction books - Books have changed a lot from the past with examples like twilight and the lighting thief, they both show how modern writers today use fictional things like gods and vampires to catch a reader’s attention. Authors use different techniques and styles in writing today with lots more variety in topics that are very creative and imaginative. Lot's of common books today have also been created into very successful movies as well like; Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings, Twilight, the Lightning Thief, The Chronicles of Narnia and lots more. >  > <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 0px;">[] > <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 0px;">[] > > <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 14px;">4. First Airplane - In 1899, the Wright Brothers designed their first aircraft: a small, biplane glider flown as a kite to test their solution for controlling the craft by wing warping. (Wing warping is a method of arching the wingtips slightly to control the aircraft's rolling motion and balance) They figured this out by spending a great deal of time observing birds in flight. They noticed that birds soared into the wind and that the air flowing over the curved surface of their wings created lift. They believed that they could use this technique to obtain roll control by warping, or changing the shape, of a portion of the wing. In 1900, the Wrights successfully tested their new 50-pound biplane glider, in both unmanned and piloted flights. Creating a form of transportation used very commonly in the modern day that humans use to take hundreds of people to a different destination, being one of that fastest ways of traveling. We think it was a revolutionary idea and would put the first ever airplane in our museum. > > > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uT2dQB_OgFE&feature=related > > <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 14px;">5. A model pyramid - For thousands of years, the largest structures on earth were pyramids: first the Red Pyramid in the Dashur Necropolis and then the Great Pyramid of Khufu both in Egypt. The largest pyramid in the world ever built is the Great Pyramid of Cholula, in the Mexican state of Puebla. It revolutionized the world of architecture, one of thie best structures ever created, the size of the pyramid was amazing considering the period it was built in. Like all the other wonders in the world it is spectacular and changed the way we live nowadays deserving a spot in our museum. > > > <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; cursor: pointer; padding-right: 10px;">[] <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; cursor: pointer; padding-right: 10px;">[] > > > > <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 14px;">6. Alien Models - Extraterrestrial life means life that does not originate from Earth. It has never been proven whether any such life exists or ever existed in the past, but many scientists believe that life either exists or has existed, on Mars. Various claims have been made for evidence of extraterrestrial life, such as those listed in a 2006 New Scientist article, which the magazine describes as "hints" rather than proof, Also there have been a number of movies about such kind like : ET, Aliens, Star Wars, War of the Worlds and The Forth Kind. We think it takes loads of imagination to create something like this like another form of life, and takes even more imagination to get some people to believe it. > > > <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; cursor: pointer; padding-right: 10px;">[] > http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20527441.400-the-face-of-first-contact-what-aliens-look-like.html > > <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 14px;">7. Mars Rover - A Mars rover is an automated motor vehicle which propels itself across the surface of Mars after landing. The Rovers have many advantages over stationary landers: they can examine more territory, they can be directed to interesting features, they can place themselves in sunny positions to weather winter months and they have the knowledge of how to perform very remote robotic vehicle control. There are three successful Mars rovers, all of which were robotically operated. The Jet Propulsion Laboratory managed the Mars Pathfinder mission with its Sojourner rover and currently manages the Mars Exploration Rover Mission with its two rovers, named Spirit and Opportunity, for NASA’s Office of Space Science, Washington, DC. > > > <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 0px;">[] > > <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 14px;"> > > > <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 14px;">8. Satellites - They are a way of looking at our universe and far away parts of our planet without venturing out of our homes. It is now part of our daily life, unlike in the past when all we needed was food, shelter and water and if we took it out of our lives, life would be a lot more less chaotic but of course, there are many reasons for them. Common types include military and civilian Earth observation satellites, communication satellites, navigation satellites, weather satellites, and research satellites. Space Stations and human spacecraft in orbit are also satellites. > > >  <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; cursor: pointer; padding-right: 10px;">[] > > > <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 14px;">9. Evolution of sports equipment - How in the beginnig everything was made from everyday material such as leather and wood but nowdays they are made from uncommon stuff such as car tire and carbon-fiber reinforced polymer. It also shows how much sports and life styles these days have changed so we'd like to show people that. > > <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 14px;">** to ** <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s91erUAji-I&feature=related > > <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 14px;">10. Evolution of Video games - It used to be just a simple joy stick and two buttons if you were lucky but now its all theses fancy controls with hard drives and internet connection, there are even ones where they detect the movement all over your body not just controlling everything through your hands. From this you know the extreme changes people have worked hard on to create and we think it'd be a fun interactive station to put inside our museum. > <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 14px;">** to <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; cursor: pointer; padding-right: 10px;">[] **<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">**http://www.play.vg/games/1-Pac-Man.html****http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7B0Z6FQPE1Y** > <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 14px;">11. 3D TV - How black and white television changed into looking like its real and happening right in front of you. When it first came out you could only watch it in theaters and it has been updated to a simple television which can be watched from home. It's difficult to create this effect and we think a 3D TV is a good item to put in our museum. > <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 14px;"> > > > <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 14px;">12. Mona Lisa is a sixteenth-century portrait painted in oil on a poplar panel in Florence, Italy by Leonardo da Vinci during the Renaissance. > <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">The painting is a half-length portrait of a seated woman whose facial expression is frequently described as enigmatic. Others believe that the slight smile is an indication that the subject is hiding a secret. The uncertainty of the subject's expression, the monumentality of the composition, and the subtle modeling of forms and atmospheric illusionism are all qualities that have contributed to the continuing fascination and study of the work. This painting took da Vinci approximately seven years to paint, not including the time he left it unfinished. There is lots of curiosity and uncertainty in this painting that makes someone wonder and imagine what it's about and how it was made, a perfect object for a library of imagination. > > > <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 14px;"> <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; cursor: pointer; padding-right: 10px;">[] > ==<span style="font-size: 1.3em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;">**<span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 19px; text-align: center;">Building ** == <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 14px;">Our Library of Imagination is a treehouse because we believe kids are the ones with the craziest, detailed imagination and one of a kids favorite spots to be is in a treehouse so that's what we chose. There are three floors in our treehouse and all the floors and stairs are made out of glass so you could see what's underneath you. There are two interactive parts in our museum, the Evolution of Video Games room, with a 3DTV in it to play all the high tech and super ancient video games all popping out at you as if it were really there and there is a tennis court where you can try out all the tennis rackets and see how they have changed over time. At the top, the roof can be opened and there is a telescope inside of it so you can see all the planets and stars. > <span style="display: block; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font: normal normal normal 15px/normal Tahoma; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 14px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Level one: Taking two ideas and combining them to make a new idea. > <span style="font: normal normal normal 15px/normal Tahoma; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 14px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Level two: Taking one of your own ideas and combining with another to create another product. > Level three: An idea or idea(s) of your own pure creation. e1 First Computer > > ====<span style="font-size: 1.066em; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;"><span style="font-size: 1.066em; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;">e1 First Computer- The first computer is so different from the technology we have today, years ago no one would have expected to have a flat screen computer, let alone a touch screen computer! Whoever had the idea of being able to search the internet for information and to u se it to communicate to people for free was a genius! Level three on the scale. ==== ====<span style="font-size: 1.066em; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;">  ==== ====<span style="font-size: 1.066em; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;"><span style="font-size: 1.066em; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;">s2 Bill Gates- Bill Gates said there would be a computer in ever y household and no one believed his idea. Now computers are apart of most peoples everyday life. He developed technology and he started the computer craze. Level two on the scale. ==== > <span style="font-size: 1.066em; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;">s3 Photography/Video- Photography and Video helps humans express them self and gives us entertainment. Years ago portraits of rich people were popular, now an kind of picture can be interpreted as photography. Photography and Video are important because it is an interesting type of creativity because instead of putting ideas out you are taking pictures and putting new ideas in. Level two on the scale. > > > e4 Evolution of Architecture- Architecture went from being practical and to function for people and their needs, now architecture is more about esthetics. Architecture iseternal because you can put modern twists on old designs, like roman columns. It's important to show the different types of architecture in our library of imagination and show how peoples imaginations have developed over the years. Level two on the scale. > > e5 Art: Picasso, Michael Angelo, Van Gogh, Andy Warhol- Art shows different peoples imagination very well, art is infinite and pure creation. Art gives something for people to look at in our library. Level three on the scale. > > s6 Da Vinci Notebook- Da Vinci's notebook showed designs that were years ahead of his time and showed that just because you dream of something one day doesn't mean its not possible the next. Level two on the scale. > > <span style="font-size: 14.924px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;">e7 Teslas Visionary Drawings- Tesla's drawings showedhis inventions, like the death ray. His drawings showed inventions that were to come years after his death. His drawings would be a great display in the library because his drawings showed original ideas that he create <span style="font-size: 1.066em; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;">d usi ng his imagination. Level three on the scale. > > s9 Wright Brothers-First Airplane- The Wright Brothers created the first airplane using their imagination. They saw birds flying and thought, if birds can do that so can humans. I think it would be good to show some of the first airplane drawings because it shows people that anything can happen. On the scale this would be a three. > > > > <span style="color: #333233; font: normal normal normal 15px/normal Tahoma; line-height: 14px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">e8 Music- Music is important because like art, music is as close as you can get to pure imagination. Music does not have to obey the basic scale of music therefore like imagination; music is infinite. Music playing in the library would be a good idea because music helps the brain think and focus. Level three on the scale of imagination. > > <span style="color: #333233; font: normal normal normal 15px/normal Tahoma; line-height: 14px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">http://www.youtube.com/v/hrML6s1wNHk?fs=1&amp%3Bhl=en_US Oldest music. > <span style="color: #333233; font: normal normal normal 15px/normal Tahoma; line-height: 14px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">http://www.youtube.com/v/dmKeIlJq4gM?fs=1&amp%3Bhl=en_US Old music. > <span style="color: #333233; font: normal normal normal 15px/normal Tahoma; line-height: 14px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MmZexg8sxyk&ob=av3e Recent music. > > > > <span style="color: #333233; font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 15px; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">s10 Mark Zuckerberg- Facebook-Mark Zuckerberg t ook two brilliant creations and from the two make a social tool thought to signify a new age in social communication and connectivity. Make Zuckerberg is now one of the worlds richest men and his profits grew an astounding 240% this year. Level one on the scale of imagination. > > > <span style="font: normal normal normal 15px/normal Tahoma; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">The building itself would have a Penrose staircase. Similar to the staircases in Harry Potter and the movie Inception. Our library would have a glass ceiling so you could stare up at the stars if it's night time, or during the day you could just look up at the sky. Inside the building it would be very open and spacious. The building would have various painting and photography on the walls, but not very many books. I think that people would be more interested to look at visuals then read books. > > <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">http://www.housedesignnews.com/contemporary-house/modern-glass-house-frames-luxurious-features-by-hillery-priest-architecture/ > <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CKtIDUWpunE&feature=fvw > > =<span style="font-size: 1.4em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;">**Imagination Library** = > > > the evolution of music technology: > Music has always been a huge part of different cultures an art form and a way of telling stories; the advancement of musical instruments and music players has changed and evolved the way people listen to music. > > media type="youtube" key="W4wBnSk6nYM?fs=1" height="499" width="624" align="center" > > > > media type="youtube" key="ptK9QsskXh8?fs=1" height="499" width="624" align="center" > > > > > > > =<span style="font-size: 1.4em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;">Photography = Preserving a moment in time has been done for centuries, it's evolved from painting, to black and white, then to almost as real as life. > > > >  >  > >  > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Weapons of war: > > hwacha > > While maybe not so peaceful, weapons have been evolving since humans starting fighting; only the most clever and imaginative would win the war. > > A hwacha, meaning fire machine, is a korean war weapon that shoots 200 flaming arrows, with a range of 500 metres. This weapon was very effective, that unlike cannons or mortars, it was very light and amunition was light, making it possible to move quickly. It also had more ammunition in one go. This weapon was used in the Japanese invasion of Korea, from 1592 to 1598, in which 3,400 Koreans 30,000 Japanese with the help of 40 hwachas. > > > > =<span style="font-size: 1.4em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;"> = =<span style="font-size: 1.4em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;">Transportation: = > Since the invention of the wheel, people have been wanting to get around faster, easier, quieter, and safer. There are many inventions including a wheel used for transportation, but the two main ones in the modern world are cars and bikes. We've placed a car and a bike in our library of imagination, because of the effect of these certain inventions on everyday life. People use these inventions on a regular basis, and faster transportation means more time for other acti > > > > > > > > > > > > > The evolution of food production: > Everything in human evolution is to get things done better, faster, easier. If you asked a farmer 100 years ago they would've never predicted the farming technology of today. Using greenhouses, we're able to produce food all year round, in any climate. Ask any housewife 100 years ago if cooking dinner could take only one minute. They would've scoffed at the idea. Now, with mass producing, freezers, and especially the microwave, we can make dinner in under a minute, complete with sauce and dishes. > > > Vaccines: > Vacinations have only been around for a short time, but they could be the different between life and death. Vaccines deserve a place in the library beacuse are an amazing medical advancement, and are connected to the human imagination, imagining preventing disease and viruses. > =<span style="font-size: 1.4em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;">__Building and decor of library__ = > > > The building for our Library of Imagination is connected to it's contents, because of the imaginative shape and design. Although it's a difficult build, it's a work of art. The building is practical, because of it's streamlined qualities, no frills or flashy lights. It has a big entry way, and many floors complete with windows, to house all the items and books of the library. > > =<span style="font-size: 1.4em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;">Interior = In the interior, we would have lots of artifacts to see, and many, many books.

> > __ Library of the human imagination __ > > <span style="display: block; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14pt; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm;">Our imagination library would be made of glass nothing else, there wouldn't be any right angles and it would look completely abstract from the outside. It would be two stories tall and centred in a garden which would play on its beauty. The glass would vary from clear, speckled, one way and any other type of glass you could imagine. The two floors would all be different, for example the first floor would house inventions from the past such inventions would include those which were ahead of their time and those which could have changed the world. On the first half of the room the glass would be older and there might even be some stained glass all this would help to show just how old some of these inventions are. The other half of the room would house all of man's failed inventions and be completely abstract to show what life may have been like. The second floor would have all the inventions that are currently changing the world therefore the second floor would have modern day glass including speckled, sandblasted and even multicoloured glass. The floors would be one way glass so you could look down onto the previous floor or you could look up to get a different view of yours. Around the outside there would be a multi-storey deck with models of the world’s greatest feats of architecture in a chronological order. In the center of the garden we'd have a fire pit to remind us of man's greatest and oldest invention: fire. > > <span style="display: block; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm;">On the first floor there'd be two categories of inventions: inventions that were ahead of their time and inventions that are changing the world. > <span style="display: block; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 10pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm;">Inventions that were/are ahead of their time: > > <span style="color: blue; display: block; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 10pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; cursor: pointer; padding-right: 10px;">[|BLOOD TRANSFUSION] > The principle of blood transfusion was understood as early as 1665, when an Englishman, Richard Lower, transfused blood between two animals. Two years later, Jean-Baptiste Denys, King Louis XIV's personal physician transfused one litre of blood from a sheep to a young man. But since they didn't understand the four blood types, a transfusion was rarely attempted at the risk of a patient receiving blood incompatible with his own. . Although Dr. James Blundell of Guy’s Hospital gave human blood to a patient in 1818, transfusion did not become safe until 1900, when Karl Landsteiner, an Austrian identified the four different types of human blood. He developed the groupings (known today as the ABO system) that made it possible to match donors and patients. This relates to the human imagination just think about how someone would have come across this idea? What were they doing? Well they didn’t read it in a book they were using their imagination. > > <span style="display: block; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm;"> > > <span style="color: blue; display: block; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 10pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; cursor: pointer; padding-right: 10px;">[|DNA PROFILING] > DNA (Deoxyribonucleic nucleic acid) profiling (also known as DNA testing, typing, or genetic fingerprinting) is a technique employed by forensic scientists to aide in the identification of individuals based on their personal DNA profiles. DNA profiles are encrypted sets of numbers that reflect a person's DNA makeup, which can also be used to identify that person. DNA profiling is used in, for example, parental testing and rape investigation. Although 99.9% of human DNA sequences are the same in every person, that 0.01 is different enough to distinguish one individual from another. DNA profiling was first reported in 1984 by Sir Alec Jeffreys at the University of Leicester in England. DNA profiling relates to the human imagination because it is a creative and accurate solution for many problems. > > <span style="display: block; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 10pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm;"> > <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 0px;">[|PORTABLE PHONES] > > <span style="display: block; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 10pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm;">The first portable phone was invented in 1973 by Motorola and was much bigger than today's cell phones which can fit in your pocket. The first portable phones were also a lot less sophisticated and were used primarily used for verbal communication unlike today’s phones. This invention changed the world and continues to change the world one call at a time. The portable relates directly to the human imagination because the inventor Dr. Martin Cooper was inspired to create the first cell phone after see a Star trek episode where they used a portable communication device. > <span style="display: block; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 10pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm;"> > <span style="display: block; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 0px; margin-bottom: 10pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden;"> > The biggest challenge we face today is one we created our selves. We provoked global warming and now we’ve got to stop it be for it becomes irreversible. Here are some inventions that are changing the world by solving the biggest problem man has ever faced: > > <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 0px;">[|CLOUDSHIPS] > > <span style="display: block; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm;">John Latham came up with the idea for these ships after explaining to his son how clouds acted as mirrors for incoming sunlight. He thought what if we could create artificial clouds that could block out the sun light? Would it slow down global warming? If you were to ask him he would tell you yes. If we were to artificially create 2% more thin low-level clouds called marine stratocumulus it could slow down or even stop the effects of global warming caused by the high levels of CO2 in our atmosphere. Latham’s idea is to have a robotic fleet of these ships which could create these clouds by spraying sea water in to the air navigating around the world's oceans to help slow down the effects of global warming. > <span style="display: block; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 10pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm;"> > > <span style="color: blue; display: block; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 10pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; cursor: pointer; padding-right: 10px;">[|COILGUN] > <span style="display: block; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 10pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm;">Roger Angel an astronomer know for coming up with dramatic and even revolutionary ideas he is most know for his new large binocular telescope and has now started thinking of ways to combat global warming. One of his newer ideas the coil gun which would launch sixteen trillion glass shades in too deep space. Angel says that if these shades were to impede 10% of sun light directed for the earth it could return the earth's temperature to what it was before the era of carbon emissions. Unfortunately this project would be extremely expensive plus each shade is made by hand and takes about a week to make. > <span style="display: block; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 10pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm;"> > <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 0px;">[|ARTIFICAL TREES] > > <span style="display: block; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 10pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm;">Kalus Lackner a professor at the Columbia University and like a growing number of scientist he thinks that we won't find a way to combat global warming before it becomes irreversible. We all know that leaves and needles from evergreens absorb CO2 from the air to make sugars and starches through photosynthesis. His idea is to create an artificial tree that would do the same. Artificial trees would be much more efficient at removing CO2 from the air as they would have more "leaves" (or filters) and be active during the winter. As the air moves over the filters/leaves the CO2 is trapped and turned into sodium carbonate. Lackner’s goal is to create an artificial tree the size of a football goal post with several thousand leaves which could absorb the equivalent amount of CO2 of four thousand cars! If such a tree was built we'd need only 250000 of them to achieve a carbon neutral world. The big problem is what to do with the CO2 once it's been trapped it could sent to the bottom of the ocean, buried or even combine it with hydrogen to make hydrocarbon which could be used as fuel. > <span style="display: block; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 10pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm;"> > > <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 0px;">[|WAVE DRIVEN OCEAN UPWELLING SYSTEM] > > <span style="display: block; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 10pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm;">Sir James Lovelock and Chris Raply, head of the science museum in London, announced a desperate plan to remove CO2 level in our atmosphere. His heir plan is to lower groups of huge tubes tethered together down 600 feet into the ocean. These tubes 10 meters in diameter would be equipped with a one way valve near the bottom (like the valves we have in our veins that prevent blood from slipping back into our heart in between beats). The tubes would bob up and down in the waves causing colder and richer water from the depths to rise until it reached the top. This nutrient rich water would inspire the growth or phytoplankton which takes up vast amounts of CO2 as they bloom. The phytoplankton would then die and sink to the bottom of the ocean trapping the CO2 with them. > <span style="display: block; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 10pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm;"> > <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 0px;">[|WIND TURBINES] > > <span style="display: block; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 10pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm;">A study in England found that wind turbines were generating an average of 35% percent of the energy of what the public was told they would generate. A Canadian research team turned to nature for the answer. And found that the humpback whale is incredibly agile for its size and this thought that maybe it had to do with their fins which have bumps on the back. One would think that this would cause more drag because of the added surface area but it actually has the opposite effect. They found using a wind tunnel that with these bumps humpback whales fins could generate lift at angles 40 percent steeper which would also grip the water to help the whale to make sharper turns. Wind turbines work the same way, and if they could "grip" the air this in turn would cause them to turn faster and generate more energy. >  > > <span style="display: block; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 10pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm;">These five inventions all relate to the human imagination because they are all creative and intelligent solutions to one of the world’s most difficult problem. > <span style="display: block; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 10pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm;">On the second floor we'd have failed inventions such as: > > <span style="color: blue; display: block; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 10pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; cursor: pointer; padding-right: 10px;">[|THE HINDENBURG] > <span style="display: block; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 10pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm;">The Hindenburg crashed on Thursday, May 6, 1937; the German passenger airship caught fire and was destroyed as it was attempting to dock with its mooring mast. 35 of the 97 people on board died in addition to one fatality on the ground. The actual cause of the fire is still unknown, although many theories have been put forth for both the cause of the ignition and the initial fuel for the ensuing fire. The accident served to shatter public confidence in the giant, passenger-carrying rigid airship, and marked the end of the airship era. Had the Hindenburg safely landed who knows what the world might have been today? We might take cruises in the air and not just on water. It may have taken a week to fly to Europe, but why is it airplanes that rule the sky’s today? After all more airplanes have crashed than airships. > media type="youtube" key="cIO1AJgnBMg?fs=1" height="385" width="480" > > <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; color: #0000ff; cursor: pointer; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 0px;">[|ELECTIRC CAR] > > <span style="display: block; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 10pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm;">The electric car did not fail just once but twice first in the early 1900's and they again over one hundred years later. The car powered by fossil fuels won both times even though the electric car was quieter didn't need to be hand cranked to start (where cars powered by fossil fuels in the early 1900's did) and still got great mileage on a single charge. The only reason it failed the second time was because it would cost car companies more money in the long run because it didn't need to be fixed as often. Imagine what the world would be like today had electric cars not failed the planet would be quieter, cooler and a more peaceful place. > <span style="display: block; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 10pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm;"> > > <span style="display: block; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 10pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm;">These two inventions relate to the human imagination because they suggest what the world may have been had they not failed. <span style="display: block; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 10pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm;">In conclusion all inventions are products human imagination because that is where they are all born. > <span style="display: block; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 10pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm;"><span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;">All of these items we put in our library give you an understanding that if you use your imagination, you can create anything you perceive in your mind.

> > > Glass, hallow walls surround you as you walk down a breezeway towards the main entrance. Greeting you at the main doorway would be your tour guide ready to answer any question imaginable. You look up above you, through the glass ceiling to a galaxy of zillions of twinkling stars carried by a thick haze floating gently in a giant dome, expanding across the whole upper part of the building. Once inside this magical building you are required to walk down the glass spiral stairs filled with pictures of people and items that were imagined, unless you need to take the elevator. The rocket ship elevator takes you to different levels of the building and the staircase spirals around the glass containment of the elevator. Once grounded on the bottom floor, which in this case is the lower basement, you will see in the far right ceiling of the library, the first airplane ever flown. There will be 3-D planets hanging and moving on the same ceiling. There would be glass columns around the museum holding pictures and writings of the past. Your tour guide will take you around the museum and all it's artifacts, including Leonardo Di Vinci's notebook, the first blueprint for space shuttles, pictures of the Colosseum, the Great Wall of China, and the Pyramids of Egypt, the first light bulb and x-ray ever made, the evolution of the telephones and computers, mummies, the first projector, the change in the world map, and explain anything you would wish to know. > >

> > <span style="color: #fa7578; display: block; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Leonardo di Vinci's notebook of sketches: > Leonardo's notebook clearly represents that if you use your imagination you can create anything in your mind.Some of the sketches he drew in his notebook were of parachutes, war tanks, the basis of a helicopter, and much more. All of these sketches came from Leonardo's imagination, so that's why the notebook deserves to be in our Library of Imagination. Under this paragraph you will see a video, it will show you one of Leonardo's creations brought to life. Enjoy! > media type="youtube" key="a2qeZrejZp0?fs=1" height="389" width="486" > <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 0px;">[|more information on Leonardo and his inventions.] > >

> > <span style="color: #f95353; display: block; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Blueprints for space shuttles: > Blueprints for space shuttles led us to an out-of-this-world journey and discovery. It also got people imagining about other planets, solar systems, forms of life, and alternate universes. This item in our Library of Imagination has a domino effect. It shows how one person's imagination for making a space shuttle leads to another man's imagination thinking about what is beyond space once they were in space. > > >

> > <span style="color: #f95858; display: block; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Pictures of the Colosseum, the Great Wall of China, and the Pyramids of Egypt: > These grand monuments grew out of the minds of humans. The creations represent a strong point; that anything can be possible if you have a strong will to build it. > [[image:1093646:.w;'elqp[wq.bmp height="122"]] > >

> > <span style="color: #fa6161; display: block; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">First light bulb ever made: > The first light bulb represented a new idea of controlled light. Humphrey Davy imagined of a more reliable and advanced light source instead of candles and oil lamps. Below you will see images of the basic elements that make up a light bulb and two old-fastioned lamps. >  >

> <span style="color: #f65151; display: block; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">First x-ray ever made: > The first x-ray helped with medical assessments that could never be recorded before. It took imagination to think of creating such a useful device, so that's why we decided to put it into our imagination library. The picture on the left and the right are images taken by an X-ray machine, and the center picture was taken of scientists testing the X-ray machine. > > >

> > <span style="color: #fb7070; display: block; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">The evolution of telephones and computers: > After the first invention of the computer and telephone humans realized how inconvenient, massive, burdensome the devices were and thought of something more suitable for daily use. People decided to making these devices smaller and thinner. They also added more memory and tried to make different ways to use it, such as a cellphone, home phone, or lap top. This item in our library shows enhancement of technology overtime and how the humans, using their imagination, created more entertainment and working options for the future generation. > > >

> > <span style="color: #f87272; display: block; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Mummies: > Mummies were chosen as an item in our library because the ancient egyptians imagined a way to preserve the dead and the past. They found a way to mummify a deased human or animal so that it could live on in the afterlife. In this video, you will learn how the ancient egyptians mummified a human being. > media type="youtube" key="-MQ5dL9cQX0?fs=1" height="345" width="584" > >

> > <span style="color: #f96666; display: block; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">First projector: > The first projector projected images that people could only imagined in their own heads to something other people could also feel and see together. It was the first step tooken towards making Televisions for family's at home and now 3-D televisions. > >

> <span style="color: #fa5c5c; display: block; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">The change in the map of the earth: > Overtime people changed the image of the earth from being flat to being sphere when they realized they were wrong about how they viewed the world. Civilizations always thought as the world to be completely flat, but then someone imagined that there was no end of the world, it just kept going around to become a sphere. The left image shows you a picture of the world when they believed it was flat, while the right -sided image shows a picture of the world being a sphere. > >

> > <span style="color: #fa5757; display: block; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">First plane flown: > The Wright Brothers visualized of human flight, and finally in 1899 their dream came true. They designed and flew a glider, amazing everyone around them. > >

> <span style="color: #ef2525; display: block; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">References > <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 0px;">[] > <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 0px;">[] > <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 0px;">[] > <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 0px;">[] > <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; cursor: pointer; padding-right: 10px;">[] > <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 0px;">[] > <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 0px;">[] > <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 0px;">[] > <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 0px;">[] > <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 0px;">[] > =<span style="font-size: 1.4em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;">**Library Of Imagination** = > Brian Chen and Isaac Waller > > If you could open your own “Libra ry of Imagination” and could store anything from human history what would you put on display? Remember the items in the library should reflect the potential of human imagination. List the items and state why they deserve to be in your museum. What features would the building itself have? > =<span style="font-size: 1.4em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;">media type="file" key="MLOI2.swf" width="601" height="601" align="right" =

<span style="font-size: 1.1em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;">**Main Floor**
The main floor of our museum holds a permanent exhibit containing some of the most important objects that ever existed representing the potential of the human imagination. Most items are inside clear glass cases and are for viewing only, though some replicas are interactive exhibits. Five examples of these objects are listed below.

> > > || || **ENIAC** > ENIAC was the first general purpose computer, created for military purposes. It represents the potential of human imagination because they had thought up using their imagination something which was better then them at something (mathematics.) > > Picture: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_pictures/7090811.stm || > || || **Thumbtack** > A thumbtack is a small pin you use to attach documents to a wall. This simple tool represents that even the simplest imagination can be useful. > > Picture: http://intannyata.com.my/store/index.php?cPath=50&language=en || > || || **Pencil Sharpener** > A pencil sharpener is a small tool that will sharpen a pencil. Before a pencil sharpener was created, you would have to sharpen a pencil with a knife. Someone obviously realized that this could be made easier, and imagined the pencil sharpener. This deserves to be in our museum because even though it is simple, it improves the lives of millions of people by a small amount, every day. > > Picture: http://www.weirdomatic.com/pencil-sharpeners.html || > || || **Smoke Alarm** > A smoke alarm is a small device that will sound an alarm if it detects smoke in the air, to warn anyone nearby that their may be a fire. The smoke alarm is an application of human imagination towards safety. > > Image: http://www.solarjamaica.com/firesfe.htm || > || || **Toothbrush** > A toothbrush is a small brush with a long handle attached, used to clean one's teeth. The toothbrush is an example of imagination used to improve our health. > > Image: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Toothbrush_x3_20050716_002.jpg || > > ===<span style="font-size: 1.1em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;">**Featured Exhibit** === Our museum contains a featured exhibit which is replaced every few months. The featured exhibit features large or large amounts of numerous, often trivial items centred around a main subject. This month's featured exhibit is __Ancient Imagination__.

> > || media type="youtube" key="UhN6v7E5Yhk?fs=1" height="190" width="320" || **Fireworks** > We have always been fascinated by fireworks. They captivate our imaginations - and it must have taken some imagination to think them up! after all, fireworks really are just leisure items, and gunpowder itself is so difficult to link to those coloured flashes in the sky. || > || || **Rope** > What is as long as a piece of string? Rope has been around for centuries, yet is often overlooked. It's hard to find the imagination in rope, but if somebody didn't have the extremely random yet imaginative idea of weaving plant fibres, we might still be tying things together with vines! || > || || **Candy** > From chewing on licorice root to today's high-end chocolates, candy has come a long way. It is an imaginative concept to create something for the pleasure of eating it and selling it at ridiculous prices! || > || || **Waterwheel** > A waterwheel is a great example of imagination - who turns something like a wheel, which moves along, into a stationary object that (as far as the ancients were concerned) had no practical use when it was thought up of. Waterwheels should not be overlooked, however. To this day, they provide us with a steady source of power. > > Image: wellingtoncelebrant.com || > || || **Paper** > Making something purely for writing on is a very imaginative concept - especially since there were already many natural materials to use. We have become more and more dependant on paper, especilly with the invention of printers || > > ===<span style="font-size: 1.1em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;">**Ground Floor** === The ground floor of our museum consists of a movie theatre with a 360 degree panoramic screen that surrounds the viewer for an exceptional viewing experience, with a concession stand that sells popcorn, drinks, etc. Films played at our theatre educate viewers about the human imagination, including documentaries and especially imaginative feature films.

> > Our Library of Imagination would have artifacts from human history. > Including: > <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 0px;">[|Great Pyramid of Giza] > - we decided to put the great pyramid of Giza in our library because the Egyptians had the concept of creating the ultimate gift for pharaoh. > <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 0px;">[|The library of congress] > - we think that the Library of Congress would be a superb addition to our library because it's all of America's great innovations collected in one place > <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 0px;">[|Leonardo da vinci's 'Mona Lisa'] > - The Mona Lisa is in our library because it was painted in the renaissance era, an era of new thinking and even painting styles. > <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 0px;">[|The Eiffel Tower from france] > - we chose the Eiffel Tower because the French had the power and perseverance to have a elaborate national landmark that they created it through wind and snow. > Artifacts and <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; cursor: pointer; padding-right: 10px;">[|pieces from the Titanic] including <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; cursor: pointer; padding-right: 10px;">[|jewelry], and the <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; cursor: pointer; padding-right: 10px;">[|engine] > <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 0px;">- We put in the Titanic because Thomas Anderson imagined a luxury ship that was "unsinkable", which many people probably would have wanted to design. > The very <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; cursor: pointer; padding-right: 10px;">[|first diving suit] > <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 0px;">- We have the first diving suit because it was an thought turned to reality, giving people the ability to walk on the ocean floor for extended periods of time. > <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 0px;">[|A space ship] > The very <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; cursor: pointer; padding-right: 10px;">[|first gas powered car], allowing people to travel conveniently and in comfort > <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 0px;">[|Train] > <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 0px;">[|SST aircraft] > <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 0px;"> > <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 0px;">[|ipod generations] > <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 0px;">[|greek statues] > > > <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 0px;">[|Theme Song] > For our library, we decided to theme it after mystery. The exterior of our building would be based off of the the unfinished pyramid on the US one dollar bill. > The unfinished top of the the pyramid represents the progress that lays ahead in the future. The eye on the top portion of the pyramid is the Eye of Providence, also known as the Eye of God. It is a symbol found in cultures all over the world, and was used usually as a religious symbol in ancient times. > Today, the eye of providence is is mainly used in Freemason symbology. > > > For the actual design of the pyramid, the pyramid would be close to the Egyptian pyramids, except for the seemingly floating top, which would be supported by steel I-beams attached to the top of the base of the pyramid. The material would concrete with a white marble coating on the base, and gold-plating on the top. > > The inside of our library would have pressure-sensitive glass floors, which changes colours where anyone steps. The walls would be adorned with artwork by famous artists such as Picasso, Van Gough, and Da Vinci. Finally, the ceiling would be a giant domed 3-D map of the stars. > > The various items in our library would include: > > // __1. The Capsule of the Spacecraft__ //__Vostok 1//://__

> // On Wednesday, April 12, 1961, Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin manned the //Vostok 1 //spacecraft, and became the first man to in outer space. The flight lasted 1 hour and 48 minutes, and the spacecraft orbited the just once. Although this seems a mediocre achievement today, it was and unimaginable feat in 1961. This represents the human imagination because it proved that somehow, life in space// was//possible, and gave people some of the first realistic ideas about life in space.// > > > > > // __2.A Copy of Plato's__ //__Republic:__

> // Plato was a ancient Greek philosopher and mathematician. In approximately 380 B.C., he wrote his most famous piece of work, called //The Republic//. This dialogue was one of the first pieces of writing to outline the definitions of democracy, tyranny, and other systems of government. This is a good example of the human imagination because it gave people some of the first examples of political theory.// > > // Further information on //Republic //is available here:// > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plato%27s_Republic > > __3.A Compass:__ > Over the course of history, the invention compass has repeatedly been sighted as one of the turning points in naval exploration. Without the invention of the compass, the Europeans would have not been able to explore nearly as much as they did. It is also reasonable to assume that the Americas would never have been discovered, and we would not be living here today. > > Further information on the compass is available here: > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compass > > // __4.A Copy of Charles Darwin's__ //__The Origin of Species:__

> // On November 24th, 1859, Charles Darwin's //The Origin of Species //was published in the UK. Darwin's book was to become the framework for modern evolutionary science. Although was (and still is) largely criticized by the church, it attracted large attention upon its publication, and is now required reading in many institutes across the world.// > > More information on Darwin's book is available here: > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_the_Origin_of_Species > > __5.A Steam-Powered Train Engine:__ > The invention of the steam engine was a major turning point for transportation. Before the steam-powered train, the fastest and most efficient means of transportation was a horse carriage. As horses are living things, and require food, water, and rest daily, people encountered many problems. But when the stream train was invented and perfected, people finally had a cheap, efficient, and quick way to travel. > > More information on the steam engine can be found here: > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steam_engine#History > > __6.A Bag of Gunpowder__ > Gunpowder is a mixture of sulfur, charcoal, and potassium nitrate. Gunpowder is primarily used as a propellant for bullets in firearms. Originally invented in China, gunpowder has drastically changed warfare- for better, or for worse, depending on how you look at it. > > More information on gunpowder and its origins can be viewed here: > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gunpowder > > __7.An Incandescent Lightbulb:__ > An incandescent lightbulb is a source of light powered by electricity. Before Thomas Edison invented the lightbulb, the only sources of light were the sun, stars, moon, and fire. Although expensive and rare at first, lightbulbs eventually proved more efficient than candles, and became cheap and commonplace. This wonderful invention gave many inventors the idea that things we use in everyday life could be powered by electricity. > > More information on the lightbulb can be viewed here: > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lightbulb > > __8.A Vinyl Record:__ > A vinyl record is an analog sound storage medium invented in the mid 1800s. It was the first known way to store sound, and remained the most popular until the 1980s. The way they work is by putting a needle in-between the small grooves in a vinyl disc, which reproduces sound. This invention is important because it spawned a new era of knowledge sharing, and proved that there were other was to store idea other than writing. > > More information on vinyl records can be viewed here: > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vinyl_record > > __9.A Bottle of Coca-Cola:__ > Coca-Cola is a soft drink which originated in the United States. It is widely considered the most popular soft-drink of all time, and has a huge influence in American pop-culture. Coca-cola has one of the most impressive and lengthy lists of advertisements in history. This invention is notable because of how such a small, seemingly unimportant product changed the course of history as we know it. > More information on Coca-Cola can be found here: > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coca-Cola > > __10.Interface Message Processor:__ > The Interface Message Processor, invented in 1969, was the first example of a computer modem. Although large, primitive, and expensive, the IMP was the first device able to connect a large network of computers together, and give them the ability to share data. This important invention was the predecessor to the Internet, which brought about a new age of sharing knowledge. > > More information on the IMP can be found here: > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interface_Message_Processor > > ur library of imagination will be 5000 square feet. which has 10 different themed rooms. > Every room would have a hands on station, Also the roof would open and close. The hallways would be filled with books. > > __Theme__ > Space- create your own planet with clay or playdough > Dinosaur age- create a fosil with clay > Technology room (computer + Music) - Create music or video games > Human Body- take apart/put together a human body model > music - Create a new musical instrument with the selected items on the table > Bugs - build an environment for specific bug > Photography room - edit photos on the computer > Video tech room - make a video out of the selected scene with your imagination Items for each room > eygpt > Space - planetarium, Meteorite > Dinosaur age- fossil`s skeletons > Technology room-first laptop > humanbody- stoumache models > music-first radio first (portable) music player- > bugs-big > photography-first camara > > video tech-first video camra- > > This building is representive of the imagination because its just something that only someones imagination could think of. > It is representive of how a person can have a idea and just make it happen. Every Persons Imagination will dream of stuff > like this but very few times will you do what your imagination want's to do. Most people would just dream but this person > decided to do what he truely want's to do. > > > > In my library i would have the hubble teliscope because it has shown that people's imaginations can be true sometimes by > showing far off galixies and planets that are above our wildest dreams. This represents our imagination because it is like a > pathway straight into it. > > > > This is a representive of the imagination because it has been a dream of a very large number of people to soar like a bird > through the sky. I have this in my museam because it shows how peoples dreams and stuff that you could just rember > befor can happen. Also this is a dream of mine to fly so I love airplanes and the freedom of flight. > > > > > Chose a submarine as one item in my library because it alows people to live comfortably underwater for a short time. > Like meny people i love snorkiling and swimming in this machine it has alowed people to look and dive a lot deeper. > This representes the imagination because it is shows that limets can been moved. Like befor the invention of the > submarine people could only do short dives and rily didnt know what alot of the ocean looked like. > > > I have also choosen the first car ever witch changed the way people could move around. It also alowed people to imagine > how fast you could go. With out this we wouldnt have some of the biggest advances in tranportation. This belongs in my > museum because it is one of the biggest advances in the moder era. > > One other thing i would put in my museum is a space suit witch has alowed humans to survive leaving the earths atmosphere. > This is inporting to represent how much humans have dreemed about space from the first man ever to now. The space suit also > represnts how a how people will always imagine how they can do a sertin task. > > > >
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// Fossils // // - ancient sacred books // // - Statues of Famous people from the ancient world // // - tradional country clothes // // - Models of robots // // - Models of spaceships // // - Models of new city // // - plants // // - Models of planets // // - Military weapons // // -Elevator // // -Food store // // - History and Science books // // Our library has three floors, two exits and entrances and a elevator. The first floor has plants, two statues areas, food store, and a book section.The second floor has a plant section, cultural clothing, two fossils sections, and a military weapons section. And the third floor, we called it "The future section". Inside there, we got models of new city, models of new robots, // // models of planets, models of new technologies and models of spaceships. //

// **__The Sacred Text of Christianity__** //

// We picked the Bible for our library, a Bible that from the old ancient world, because it is the sacred text of Christianity. // // And everyone knows Christianity is the world largest religion, and the most people believe in, so the anicent old Bible will // // become so valuable, because it is so hard to find a very old Bible. For the collection of other sacred texts can let people knows all different religious histories, learnings. //

// __**Sacred Texts**__ // // Islam sacred text: Koran // // Skihism sacred text: Guru Granth Sahib // // **__Fossil of a Zigongosaurus__** // // We picked a fossil of a Zigongosaurus, because its one of the thousand dinosaurs that people never heard of, the dinosaurs fossils that people heard of is too common in our library. //

// __**Fossil of the most powerful creatures in the world**__ // // Scientists digging in the arctic island regions of Norway have found the enormous remains of a new member in a family of ancient ocean reptiles, called pliosaurs, it also called Predator X. They lived during the period of the dinosaurs. This sea creature was at least 50 feet long and weighed 45 tons. The skull alone measures 10 feet long as well as the front two flippers. The average length of previously studied pliosaurs is about 16-20 feet. It is estimated that Predator X had a bite 2-3 times as powerful as T-Rex and 100 times more powerful than any animal alive today. // // We picked a fossil of a pliosaur, because if we got the most powerful creature's fossils in our library, it will representing how powerful does our library has. //

// **__Plants__** // // This type of plant called Epiphyllum, it is the most popular house plants in Asia,and the most interesting thing about that plant is the bloom stay for a single night only. // // It commonly flowering at 9:00 pm during fall season, after a hour or a minute, the flower getting wilted and dead. // // We choose plants because we want to keep our library getting fresh air, also can decorating our library. // // __**Traditional clothes from the world**__ //

// The reason we choose this, because we want people to know different people wearing different clothes, and show people // // what kind of clothes does people from other countries wear. // // **__Military Weapon__** // // The reason we choose military weapons, because people should see the evolution of weapons since the first world war. // // Also the people can know what kind of weapons does the military use. // // __**Models of the Future**__ // // The third floor of our library is the place that leads people to meet the future. There are rooms show models of new city, technology, cars, robots, planets. // // The reason we chose models, because we want people to know how bright does our future has, and let people know how much changes after 100 years from now. //

<span style="color: #5e5e5e; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10px; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> //<span style="color: #5e5e5e; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Models of spaceships, the reason we choose spaceships models because spaceships can be another // //<span style="color: #5e5e5e; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">transportation in the future. People might happy about the new transportation for them in the future. //

// This is the model of new city, there are all kinds of building that we never seen before. There will be new types of transportation, that will be our new home in the future. //

// There are the planets in solar system we discovered so far, there might be new planets discover by humans later in the future. Planets: Sun, Moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn ,Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto. // // The reason of why we need to discovering new planets, because we need new sources of energy, so I think new planets are very important for the future. //

// One day, robots might replace humans, I think robots might become our future. // // The robots on top are made in Japen, there are so many differnt robots already invented, robots are alway smarter than human. The robots might be can developed to move flexible as human in the future. //

// **__Food store__** // // Our food store is giving out cultural and traditional foods. The reason we chose food store because we want people to try different cultural foods, and let people know what kind of foods does people from other country eats. // // There are Chinese foods, Korean foods, Japenese foods, Indian foods, American foods, Canadian foods and more...... //

// **__History and Science books__** // // There are all kinds of history and science books in our library. The reason we chose history and science books ,because // // history represent the past, science represent the future, both things to us are very important, so we make a book section to let people to learn, and give them all the resources. //

// **__Elevator__** // // There are stairs and elevator, elevator is faster than stairs, it also able to let people // // that has disabilities get up stair easily. //

<span style="display: block; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.5; min-height: 600px; overflow-x: auto; overflow-y: visible; padding-bottom: 2em; width: 965px;">**__Statues of famous ancient people__** We picked statues for our library because there are so many statues that we find but a lot but never know there story behind them.Here are some statues of some famous people.

This is a statue of Sesostris he was once a legendary king of Egypt he led a military expedition into parts of Europe <span style="display: block; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.5; min-height: 600px; overflow-x: auto; overflow-y: visible; padding-bottom: 2em; width: 965px;">This is a statue of Julius Augustus he once ruled the mighty city of Rome since 24 BC until his death in 14 AD. <span style="display: block; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.5; min-height: 600px; overflow-x: auto; overflow-y: visible; padding-bottom: 2em; width: 965px;"> ancient dinosaurs





The room which called Dinosaurs in ancient artifacts room. there are Dinosaurs because it's shows what lived before us, and they are great giants.

Ancient Egypt.





in ancient egypt is so mysterious to us because how they lived. Egypt has so many rules to follow like on the religion, how they worked, and what they did to dead people. The religion is that they had multiple gods that made their world. Every person had a job, and there were men, women and children that worked for the pharaoh as sleeves. What they did to dead people is that they rapped them in this caught-nee thread and they called mummies.

ANCIENT ROME



Ancient Rome there floors were made there floors out of mosaic which is tiny stones and clay to make a picture in there floor. They liked to fight in the roman colosseum





These are models that we would put in our ice age exhibit.

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Alice in wonderland maze.

Our small room for people who wants to read alone with a big fat comfy chairs.



as you can see there are too different bullied's one is the library and one is the ice age bullied.in the library you will find book, musics,and many other thing. the books are there for reading about history and fantasy,and thees small rooms that we all redye tacked about were you can go and read. the musics is there for you all tapes of musics from AN Rome to today. and if you tack are glass elavrter donw stares you will find yousalf in the Rome,Egypt, dinosaur Exhibit the Rome, and Egypt aredifaxse are there to teaches you on you they lived and there are dinosaur boons to show what dinosaurs look liked.

<span style="display: block; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.5; min-height: 600px; overflow-x: auto; overflow-y: visible; padding-bottom: 2em; width: 965px;"> = =  Our Library of Imagination would have artifacts from human history. Including: <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; cursor: pointer; padding-right: 10px;">[|Great Pyramid of Giza] - we decided to put the great pyramid of Giza in our library because the Egyptians had the concept of creating the ultimate gift for pharaoh.

<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; cursor: pointer; padding-right: 10px;">[|The library of congress] - we think that the Library of Congress would be a superb addition to our library because it's all of America's great innovations collected in one place

<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; cursor: pointer; padding-right: 10px;">[|Leonardo da vinci's 'Mona Lisa'] - The Mona Lisa is in our library because it was painted in the renaissance era, an era of new thinking and even painting styles.

<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; cursor: pointer; padding-right: 10px;">[|The Eiffel Tower from france] - we chose the Eiffel Tower because the French had the power and perseverance to have a elaborate national landmark that they created it through wind and snow.

<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; cursor: pointer; padding-right: 10px;">[|pieces from the Titanic] including <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; cursor: pointer; padding-right: 10px;">[|jewelry], and the <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; cursor: pointer; padding-right: 10px;">[|engine] - We put in the Titanic because Thomas Anderson imagined a luxury ship that was "unsinkable", which many people probably would have wanted to design.

<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; cursor: pointer; padding-right: 10px;">[|first diving suit] - We have the first diving suit because it was an thought turned to reality, giving people the ability to walk on the ocean floor for extended periods of time.

<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; cursor: pointer; padding-right: 10px;">[|first gas powered car], allowing people to travel conveniently and in comfort. This was once a dram to create and John Lambert made it possible with Ford Motors. This was a great step into furthering our technology and make transportation easier and faster.

<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; cursor: pointer; padding-right: 10px;">[|Train] -This is not only an exhibition in our library but also used as an entrance way and booth office for our library of imagination. The Canadian Pacific Railway Locomotive, like the Ford gas powered car, was an amazing invention that helped technology in taking another step forward in the worlds industrial revolution.

<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; cursor: pointer; padding-right: 10px;">[|SST aircraft] -The SST aircraft is another great invention that was thought impossible to make with a supersonic turbojet engine, it was the fastest aircraft ever created. Due to landing problems and the excuses of rising gas problems, and enviromental concerns, the SST no longer flies. Facts: it seated 277 passengers with a wingspan of 54.97m it could carry 306175kg.

<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; cursor: pointer; padding-right: 10px;"> -Beside the SST Aircraft we show it's very own turbojet engine. The great engineering that went into it the design plan makes you wonder how any of it was possible and all the imagination and though process.

<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; cursor: pointer; padding-right: 10px;">[|ipod generations] -I think that the ipod is a huge change in our culture and also a big part of coming generations lives. To think that we have come so far in technology is something very commendable.

<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; cursor: pointer; padding-right: 10px;">[|greek statues] -Greek Mythology takes us back to the beginning, before the industrial revolution.

The main theme of our library is mainly technology and the idea that all of this was only imagined to be possible. The engineering and thought that designed it all to happened is just incredible. One half is reserved for the library of congress and the other half contains extremely valuable and once imagined artifacts that has changed our history. For the outside the building looks like a hockey ring with the Canadian Pacific Railway train wrapping around the building creating the entrance. The library itself is a huge build containing actual pyramids and of course the Eiffel tower. Arcitectual structure: The building for the library of imagination would be a glass bubble, with glass floors and shelves for the artifacts. It would be set in concrete so it wouldn't roll away.

Following is a list of artifacts and how they relate to human imagination, wether they represent an aspect of human imagination, or are a result of it.

Artifacts: Galileo's telescope; represents astronomy, an invention of human imagination. <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; padding-right: 10px;">[]

The Domesday Book represents ownership, and recording of information. <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; padding-right: 10px;">[]

Magna Carta- democracy, rights <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; padding-right: 10px;">[]

Bayeux Tapestry- war <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; padding-right: 10px;">[]

Hammurabi's Law Code- law <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; padding-right: 10px;">[]

Rosetta Stone- language <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; padding-right: 10px;">[|http://sixcp.sixcp.com] images/Rosetta_Stone.jpg

Da Vinci's Notebook- imagination, invention <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; padding-right: 10px;">[]

'Mona Lisa'- art <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; padding-right: 10px;">[]

'The Last Supper'- religion <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; padding-right: 10px;">[]

Apollo 1- space travel <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; padding-right: 10px;">[]

The Dead Sea Scrolls- literacy <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; padding-right: 10px;">[]



<span style="color: #028cde; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 29px;">The Library of I﻿magination can be what ever you want it to be! For us this is what our Library is.

Childhood Mythology

We chose Child hood Mythology because, they were part of our lives for about 12 years, wouldn't it be so cool if you could have the <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; cursor: pointer; padding-right: 10px;">[|Tooth Fairy] and <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; cursor: pointer; padding-right: 10px;">[|Santa Claus] and the <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; cursor: pointer; padding-right: 10px;">[|Easter Bunny] in your imagination, they all were a very big part in our imagination. But our parents our love in these characters, so in our library we have them fully alive.

Willy Wonka's Chocolate Factory Our library of imagination is a giant chocolate factory. It's going to be much like Willy Wonka's candy room. We decided to add this into our library because who doesn't imagine a room full of candy where everything is made of <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; cursor: pointer; padding-right: 10px;">[|sweets].

Chocolate Cow We would love a chocolate milk producing cow, because white milk isn't in my favorite drink category, like think of how convenient it would be to just go out to your barn, be like "hey Oatis want to make me some milk?" and it just comes out chocolate. Then compare that to how its really made. <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; cursor: pointer; padding-right: 10px;">[|Chocolate milk] has so many steps to making it where as if you had a chocolate cow it would make things a whole lot easier. Mount Everest in Mexico <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; cursor: pointer; padding-right: 10px;">[|Mexico] is probable my favorite place to go. It's beautiful and very hot but sometimes it's too hot. <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; cursor: pointer; padding-right: 10px;">[|Mount Everest] is probably one of the coldest places on earth and just imagine how it would be to suntan on Mount Everest, it would be hot yet cold and you'd have a great view.

Liquid Mercury Pool I think it would be the coolest thing to be able to play and swim in <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; cursor: pointer; padding-right: 10px;">[|liquid mercury], you can throw it, look at your self in it...and it looks like metal, but its liquid, and the cool thing about this pool my friends you would die like you would swimming in regular <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; cursor: pointer; padding-right: 10px;">[|liquid mercury]. Talking animals Everyone loves animals because they're great companyand for some people, like Nikkita, friends..... But wouldn't they be better company or in some cases, friends if they could talk? You know, instead of barking at you like a maniac! <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; cursor: pointer; padding-right: 10px;">[|Talking animals] would be awesome.

Time Machine I chose the <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; cursor: pointer; padding-right: 10px;">[|time machine] because, I would to go back to when the Renaissance happened or when Micheal Jackson was still part of Jackson 5, or to see Marilyn Munroe preformed at Jfk's birthday! It would be awesome...or to even go to school again and do better on your tests.

Star-filled Ceiling Everyone loves the feeling of laying in your backyard looking at the stars hoping you might see a <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; cursor: pointer; padding-right: 10px;">[|shooting star]. But in our library of imagination all that is possible in your own living room! Like imagine walking into your house in mid daylight and the room being filled with only the moonlight and the light of the stars. It would be amazing.

Black Hole To escape from reality I would like to go in the <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; cursor: pointer; padding-right: 10px;">[|black hole] and color and just go in there and come out when ever, I want see what evers in there.

Fruit Punch tree So we have all kinds of fruit trees. We have apple trees, pear trees, cherry trees and banana trees but wouldn't it be neat if there was a tree that had all these fruits combined? Along with some of our other favorite fruits such as pineapples, grapes, pomegranates, strawberries and maybe even mangoes and the sap was fruit punch! Our library will be in a castle. The castle will be surrounded by water (a moat)!! To get in you have to pay money to the guard and then he will signal to the other guard to let down the bridge!! When you enter you will also get a jet pack just incase you get lost!!! The caste will be 10 stories high and all the same objects will go on one floor and the other same objects will go on another floor and so on for 10 floors.

On the inside entrance there will be a device that asks you where you want to go. After choosing the floor you want to go on you will magically teleport to the room you chose this device will be on every entrance!! The whole inside of the castle is touch screen. On the walls there will be games to activate those games you have to touch the wall. Different rooms have different games; some are related to the room’s topic while others are just for fun!! The colors of the wall change every day so there is no fixed color!!

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<span style="font-size: 1.033em; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;">** The Baghdad Battery **
Today batteries can be found in any grocery, drug, convenience and department store you come across. Well, here's a battery that's 2,000 years old! Known as the Baghdad Battery, this curiosity was found in the ruins of a Parthian village believed to date back to between 248 B.C. and 226 A.D. The device consists of a 5-1/2-inch high clay vessel inside of which was a copper cylinder held in place by asphalt, and inside of that was an oxidized iron rod. Experts who examined it concluded that the device needed only to be filled with an acid or alkaline liquid to produce an electric charge. It is believed that this ancient battery might have been used for electroplating objects with gold. If so, how was this technology lost... and the battery not rediscovered for another 1,800 years? Why did I put this?? Well I put this here because I thought this was a really cool thing to know!! I really wonder why this technology was lost though?? And it tells us that people before us knew how to make light!

<span style="font-size: 1.033em; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;">**First Tomb**
This is the first tomb discovered. This tomb was discovered in November 1922 by Howard Carter. Carter had discovered not just an unknown ancient Egyptian tomb, but one that had lain nearly undisturbed for over 3,000 years. I put this here because I love everything about Egypt and I found it really cool that King Tut was the first mummy to be dug up by foreign people.

<span style="font-size: 1.033em; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;">**Atlantis**
Well I am not really sure if Atlantis ever existed but I do know that it would be really cool if you could have a play place that related to something historically fun!! It would be something like a water park but to get in you must know a really cool historic fact!!

Dinosaur bones Don’t you ever wander how or why these dinosaurs became extinct?? Well I do and I love mysteries so I thought this would be a really cool historical artefact that would involve something I love!!

<span style="font-size: 1.033em; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;">**Cave Man Drawings**
These cave men and women drew their feelings on a piece of wall because they did not know how to write or read. Is that not amazing!!!!???? You might wonder where did these ideas and colors come up from right?? I am not really sure how or when they started to cave paintings but I know that they only used by using charcoal, yellow ochre, and a red pigment made from hematite.

<span style="font-size: 1.1em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;"> First Watch!!
Do you ever think about how they made watches back then or did they even have watches?? Well luckily they did!! Originally watches came out in the 1500’s but this is the oldest on I could find!! This is a watch that was made in the early 1700’s which I thought was really cool!!

<span style="font-size: 1.033em; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;">**Books!!!**
I love book so that’s why I decided why not add a book to my library!! But then I realized it has to be historical so I came up with a great idea why not I think I should add the first book ever printed!!! This book is called Gutenberg Bible. Sorry it is not a book but still it is a type of book it is a bible!!

<span style="font-size: 1.033em; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;">**The First Coin**
The first coins ever to be recorded on earth were gold and silver denominational coinage minted by the Lydian’s around 600 BC. This coin is smaller in diameter than U.S. half dime but is thick as a pebble and weighs almost as much as a U.S. quarter. It's made of electrum, an alloy of gold and silver called "white gold" in ancient times (50-60 percent gold with these coins)

<span style="font-size: 1.033em; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;">**The Wave Rock**
The Wave Rock in Australia derives its name from the fact that it is shaped like a tall breaking ocean wave. The total outcrop covers several hectares. The wave is about 15 metres high and approximately 110 meters long. Wave Rock is composed of granite and the wave formation is thought to have formed 60 million years ago. The shape of the rock was formed by underground chemical weathering followed by removal of the soft weathered granite surface by erosion.

<span style="font-size: 1.033em; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;">**Art**
Have you ever noticed the detail people put in art??? Well I always look at that and I really love the way artists do everything to make their painting look like how they feel or how they feel or… you get it right!! That is one of the reasons I want a special floor for paintings!! Pyramid of Giza (miniature replica) - The Egyptians made this huge pyramid through human labor alone. How could a huge pyramid such as this could be erected 5000 years ago through human labour alone? With such questions we've decided to put it into our Library of Imagination. <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; cursor: pointer; padding-right: 10px;">Pyramid of Giza A dinosaur bone from a Tyrannosaurus Rex - The dinosaur bone was able to survive through the millions of years and it is able to tell us what kind of creatures roamed the Earth a long time ago.<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; cursor: pointer; padding-right: 10px;">Tyrannosaurus Rex Bone Wooly Mammoth - These Wooly Mammoths survived through the Ice Age with their wooly coats. With so much wool on them it must of been a cold time. <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; cursor: pointer; padding-right: 10px;">Wooly Mammoth Cockroach - These insects survived like for a long time. They aren't extinct yet but the dinosaurs are. How could such small creatures avoided extinction while the dinosaurs could not. That;s why we've decided to put the cockroach into our Library of Imagination.<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; cursor: pointer; padding-right: 10px;">Cockroach Australopithecus Skeleton (Evolution) - Well, the australopithecus was one of the first first humans to roam the Earth. They were technically still apes, but its kind of the base of our evolution, and so we've decided to put it into our Library of Imagination.<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; cursor: pointer; padding-right: 10px;">Australopithecus Skeleton Moon Rock - They were rocks that was brought back from the moon. It gives us the experience of seeing the moon in real life. It tells us what the moon's land surface texture feels like. <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; cursor: pointer; padding-right: 10px;">Moon Rock Telescope - With the telescope we can inspect stars that are too far away for our eyes to see. With the telescope we can find out more about the universe that we live in. <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; cursor: pointer; padding-right: 10px;">Telescope Airplane - We humans all wanted to fly but flight was impossible during the middle ages. Only during the Renaissance did one person made plans for flight. That man was Leonardo da Vinci, however during those times flight would still be impossible. Then in 1903 the Wright brothers successfully made a airplane that could fly. Imagination always prevails as long as we try. <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; cursor: pointer; padding-right: 10px;">Wright Brother's First Airplane The Internet - The internet connects people together like never before. We can send messages to each other instantly, play games with each other, and work with each other all with a click of a button. <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; cursor: pointer; padding-right: 10px;">The Internet The Brain - The brain is the source of imagination where all our thoughts and dreams originate from. How does the brain project those images in your head? Without the brain there would be no imagination.<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; cursor: pointer; padding-right: 10px;">The Brain

Around the castle there is a moat to keep the imagination objects safe. When you enter the castle you will find yourself in a room of the Imagination of Myths eg. minotaurs, centaurs, dragons, zombies, ghosts, and vampires. Also, in the room there is a touch screen wall that lets you press an icon that projects an image of the imaginary being. Also, there are touch screen pictures, which animates the pictures and perform an action. As you pass the Room of Imagination of Myths, you enter a hallway that is a replica of a forest. Inside the forest you will see trees and wild life. At the end of the forest hallway you will go through a door that leads to the room of Imagination of Realistic Things. When you enter through the door you will see a miniature replica of the Pyramid of Giza, the first airplane flown by the Wright Brothers, the telescope, a model of the australopithecus skeleton, a model of a real sized brain, a realistic sized wooly mammoth, a fleet of cockroaches, and a moon rock. At the end of the Imagination of Realistic room, you will enter the room of your own imagination. Inside there are a bunch of computers programmed to make a video of your own imagination that published in a monthly DVD featuring everyone's imagination in 3D. Well that's the Castle of Imagination and I hope you enjoy your stay here.
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**Items that would be on display:**

1. One of Lady Gagas costumes. 2. An issue of Vogue magazine. 3. Animal farm. 4. Beethoven's sheet music. 5. The Magna Carta. 6. A sugar sculpture. 7. The first car. 8. The first airplane. 9. The first telephone. 10. The first camera. Carlie: Isawesome Rachelle: Isawesome

**Why these items deserve to be in our library:** 1. Lady Gagas costumes deserve to be in our library, because they are pure imagination, and creativity. Nobody else dares to dress the way that she does, and to some it is pretty inspiring. It is a new thing, most people would never think of the combonations she does. It is a mystery how she picks them out, too which ties into our class theme nicely. Along with this new way of dressing, she also doesn't care what others think about her style, which is a new way of thinking about things.



2. Animal farm deserves a place in our library because, for one it is a great book, books do belong in librarys. It is a another good example of imagination, George Orwell shares his opinon on the Russian Revolution with the rest of the world, about things like marxism, and communism. He turns the somewhat boring historic textbook story into a new interesting story; his use of symbolism in it is amazing, another thing is that the creative use of animals appeal to younger audiences, like me.

3. Vogue definatly deserves to be in the library, It is one of the older magazine, it is still popular, and pretty famous to this day, it has been around since 1892. Vogue is made up by writers, they pick out styles, write collems, and lay it all out. It is a creative example of imagination, because in the magazines they think of new combinations, styles, and different articles, it is like a book but with an interesting layout, and pictures. These magazines helped elevate the ideas of fashion as an art, and photography to a higher level.



4. Moonlight Sonata is a classical song, written by Beethoven, and was completed in 1801. It is a famous sonata about six minutes long. It is a very good example of creativity, since he was deaf when he was writing it. He used sound vibrations to tell if it sounded good. He was writing about describing a lake through music. Most people wouldn't see the connection between music, and a body of water.



5. This image in the diagram is a picture of one of the first cars, thought up by humans and powered by steam. The first car deserves to be in our library, because it is a big advancement in technology. It takes a lot of brainwork to come up with a solution to a problem using a complex machine. In the time of the invention of the first car, it would have been a big imaginative new idea, like the use of jet packs to us. Back then it would have been a new and interesting idea to move without physical work.



6. The Magna Carta is a British charter, signed to give the citizens of England more civil rights, and less monarchy. It was a big advancement in law, it was a very radical different idea for the time. Before Europe's idea of law were just based on the church. This use of law revolutionized the law system of Europe's court. Some of the ideas from the Magna Carta were used to be make American laws.

7. This is a sugar sculpture made by chefs in the show, Food Network Challenge. It belongs in our library since it is a piece of art, like any regular painting. Food is probably a more creative sculpture idea, humans are the only ones who have the mental capasity to imagine and create things, we make food a more beautiful thing, and not limit it to only the nutritional value of it. Another thing that makes it interesting is that it was made by humans, in limited time, which needs skill and poseable thumbs.

8. In ﻿﻿﻿this picture, it depicts the first airplane built that could fly. The builders of it were the Wright brothers, Orville Wright was the one who flew it, but they both helped design and build it. It was also a major advancement in human-made technology. It revolutinized travel, shipping, trading, and military things. It is a very important part of history, and human thought, making it a good choice to put in a library of imagination. They were not the first to think of it, but had the courage, and patience to make their dream real.



9. In this picture is one of the first telephones made with a hand cranked generator. This was a big improvement in communication. People would finally not waste paper writing letters, or spend time making telegraphs. This is a pretty imaginative thing certainly above the time... Since it is a complicated machine, that can be used to talk to people, it is a series of complicated parts.

10. The object in this picture is the first camera ever made, which was made by scientists Robert Boyle, and Hooke in the 1660's. We decided to put this into our library because it is an artistic elevating type of thing. Humans came up with the idea to capture scene/pictures, and made an art out of it. Before things were hand drawn only, like the picture above. This is both an important invention in the arts, and other practical things.

__**Our Building**__

There are three main features on the outside of our building. First of all, the bottom half of our building is a perfect rectangle made of bricks, but it is painted to look like books on a shelf in a library. We decided to use books, because when people are writing books they start off with just a piece of white paper, then everything comes to mind, even if it is the craziest most random idea, which makes it imaginative. The top part of our building has crooked walls, windows, and doors, because most people would just build a square or rectangular house. But having the crooked shapes takes imagination and creativity to picture and build; it wouldn’t be your typical house. The third main feature on the outside of our building, is a giant violin, that sits straight up at the front of our building. It is where the door is to enter our building; it also contains the stairs that go to each level. At the back of the violin is where the long, spinning slide is located. You use the slide on the way out of the library, and it stops at every level inside the building. The entire violin is made out of glass, so it allows lots of light in. We decided to use a violin, because it takes imagination to create any kind of music for any instrument. Making music is also like writing a book, all you start with is a piece of blank paper. Then you write musical notes down, that will turn into a beautiful piece of music. That is our description on what our building looks like, and how it reflects imagination. Library of Human Imagination =<span style="font-size: 1.4em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;">**Building Design:** = <span style="color: #000000; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"> ===<span style="font-size: 1.1em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;">**We designed our library to look like a human head with the top pulled off so you can see the "brain" inside. The reason we did this is because the only reason we can imagine is because we have brains. The outer section of the head acts as a wall to keep trespassers out. The eyelids open and close as doors and the right eye is the entrance and the left is the exit. Between the brain and the walls, there is a Physik garden/ walkway. We decided that the brain part goes two floors under ground and is one floor above. When you walk into the door, which is between the right and left side of the brain in the crevice at the front, you see one huge room that has all of our items in it. The Items are on little cradles made out of veins lining the outside of the room. Each item has a little explanation on it's origins and how it is used. On the front side of the second floor down is our interactive part of the museum. It includes the Lego room, which is full of Lego for kids to play with. The other room on the second floor is the computer room. It is full of computers from different years for people to try to figure out (we made this room specially for Mr. Janzen). In the day time the museum is naturally lit, there are little crevices in the brain to let light in. There are also a lot of mirrors to reflect the light towards the places where there are not windows. At night time we use light that our solar panels have produced in the day. Our building also includes an OMNIMAX theatre where we play scientific shows. The theatre takes up the back side of the bottom two floors. Here is an advertisement for one of our shows...** ===

<span style="color: #000000; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"> media type="youtube" key="NvlbAItBdK4?fs=1" height="190" width="320" =<span style="font-size: 1.4em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;">**Items** = = = =<span style="font-size: 1.4em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;">**<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; cursor: pointer; padding-right: 10px;">Penicillin ** = ===<span style="font-size: 1.1em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;">**We put penicillin in our library of human imagination because, come //on,// it's MOULD that's an ANTIBIOTIC!** === ===<span style="font-size: 1.1em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;">**Is there ANYTHING cooler than that? Penicillin was discovered by Alexander Fleming in 1928, and, as TIME Magazine states:** ===

<span style="font-size: 1.1em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;">**"It was a discovery that would change the course of history."**
= = =<span style="font-size: 1.4em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;">**<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; cursor: pointer; padding-right: 10px;">The Wright Flyer ** = <span style="cursor: pointer; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"> ===<span style="font-size: 1.1em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;">**The Wright Flyer demonstrates human imagination because it represents a new era of world travel, and was the world's first heavier-than-air powered flying machine. The Wrights' December 1903 flight proved that powered flight is possible (this achievement is the modern-day equivalent of landing on the moon).** === = = =<span style="font-size: 1.4em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;">**<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; cursor: pointer; padding-right: 10px;">Leonardo's Inventions ** = ===<span style="font-size: 1.1em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;">**Leonardo da Vinci's engineering designs deserve to be in our library of human imagination because Leonardo Da Vinci had one of the most creative minds of all time. In addition to painting the Mona Lisa, he was an expert engineer (as you can see in the picture) and scientist.** ===

=<span style="font-size: 1.4em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;">**<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; cursor: pointer; padding-right: 10px;">The Lord of the Rings ** = media type="youtube" key="Pki6jbSbXIY?fs=1" height="140" width="246" ===<span style="font-size: 1.1em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;">**We chose to put the Lord of the Rings in our library of human imagination because, like Da Vinci, Tolkien was one of the most creatvity people to walk the face of the earth. Although he did not paint a Mona Lisa or make any advancements in medicine, he created an entire fantasy that will please generations to come. From charismatic Gandalf, to the strange, ever so creepy Sméagol, every animal, person, and plant (yes, plant) is entertaining and yet just //barely// believable.** ===

=<span style="font-size: 1.4em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;">**<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; cursor: pointer; padding-right: 10px;">[|Computers] ** = ===<span style="font-size: 1.1em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;">**Computers deserve to be in our Library of Human Imagination because they are one of the few fields where technology is developing faster then it can be sold. for example, there have been five generations of IPhone in the past 3 years. Also, as you can see above, computers have decreased in size so that what then took up a whole room now "fits inside a manilla envelope"** === = = <span style="color: #000000; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"> = = =<span style="font-size: 1.4em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;">** The Ford Model T ** =



===<span style="font-size: 1.1em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;">**On September 27 1908 the very first Ford Model "T" was put on the market. It was regarded as the worlds first affordable automobiles and was the car that really popularised the automobile. The Ford Model "T" however, was not the worlds first car, but it was the first car to have a production line with completly interchangable parts. This is what made it so innovative and efficient. Because of this, it made a popular mode of transportation for the middle class. You can tell that Henry Ford (the inventor) was a determined, creative and imaginative man because this is what he said about the Ford Model "T" before production.** === ===<span style="font-size: 1.1em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;">**"I will build a car for the great multitude. It will be large enough for the family, but small enough for the individual to run and care for. It will be constructed of the best materials, by the best men to be hired, after the simplest designs that modern engineering can devise. But it will be so low in price that no man making a good salary will be unable to own one—and enjoy with his family the blessing of hours of pleasure in God's great open spaces."** ===

=<span style="font-size: 1.4em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;">**<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; cursor: pointer; padding-right: 10px;">[|The Snuggie] ** = ===<span style="font-size: 1.1em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;">**Imagine being able to hold your drink and switch the channel while staying cozy! Well, if you have never heard of the Snuggie prepare to be blown away. The Snuggie is an engineering masterpiece which permits you to do just this. This is why we think that the Snuggie would be perfect for the library of imagination. The Snuggie is just like a blanket but... IT HAS SLEEVES!!** === <span style="color: #000000; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"> media type="youtube" key="TqHSIiAXdSU?fs=1" height="262" width="325"

=<span style="font-size: 1.4em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;">**<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; cursor: pointer; padding-right: 10px;">Lego bricks ** = ===<span style="font-size: 1.1em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;">**Lego was invented in 1934 by a toy maker by the name of Golfred. Lego consists of many different rectangular plastic pieces that fit on top of each other. Lego really deserves to be in the imagination library not only because of the creative idea of interlocking blocks, but also because of the billions of different things you can make out of it. The Lego exhibit in our museum would be an interactive one. There would be a room full of Lego for kids to play with.** === = = =<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; cursor: pointer; font-size: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 5px;">[|Music] = ===<span style="font-size: 1.1em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;">**From hip hop to classical to rock, music is one of the most diverse things. Music can make you sad, happy or even angry, and with a little creativity, you can make music whatever you want it to be. It is because of these traits that we put "music" in our library. It is amazing that every ancient civilization in the world had their own kind of music and that it was all different. Listen to the different styles.** === =<span style="font-size: 1.4em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;">media type="file" key="16 Apologize (feat One Republic).mp3" width="240" height="20" align="left" =

= = =<span style="font-size: 1.4em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;">media type="file" key="Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da.mp3" width="240" height="20" align="left" =

media type="file" key="Mad World.mp3" width="240" height="20" align="left" = = = = = = = = =<span style="font-size: 1.4em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;">** Record player, CD player, iPod (evolution) ** = ===<span style="font-size: 1.1em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;">**Imagine being able to listen to a song that someone played 30 years ago, on another continent. Well over the years science has been perfecting the hand held music device, also known as an ipod. It is amazing to look at how the music player has evolved over the years and this amazing advancement in technologie is what makes it perfect for the library of imagination.** ===

===<span style="font-size: 1.1em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;">__The record__**: The record player was invented in 1877 by Thomas Edison. The record was an ingenious invention, it had many little spiral grooves in it which went up and down. When he put the record in the machine the pin would vibrate in these grooves making the sound. This was the first time in history where people could listen to music without actually having to be there when it was played.** ===

===<span style="font-size: 1.1em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;">__The CD Player:__ **In 1982 the first CD player was released with Billy Joe'ls //52 street// being the first album//.// CDs were much smaller than records and were much more reliable than records because of there laser reading system which was what made them so popular.** ===

===<span style="font-size: 1.1em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;">__The Ipod__**:On September 27, 2001, Steve Jobs changed portable music player technologie when he released the apple Ipod. The Ipod could play many more songs than the CD player and was much smaller. It also included a screen which displayed songs.** === <span style="color: #000000; cursor: pointer; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"> <span style="color: #000000; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"> <span style="color: #000000; cursor: pointer; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"> <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">If we could open our own "Library of Imagination" and could store anything from human history, we would store:


 * <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">The evolution of the <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; url(http: //www.wikispaces.com/i/a.gif); background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; cursor: pointer; padding-right: 10px;">vehicle, because it has evolved immensely in time, and has made transportation easier
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 * <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">The <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; url(http: //www.wikispaces.com/i/a.gif); background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; cursor: pointer; padding-right: 10px;">Gutenberg Printing Press, because it has made literature more accessible for people all over the world
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 * <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">The <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; url(http: //www.wikispaces.com/i/a.gif); background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; cursor: pointer; padding-right: 10px;">television, because it has changed the way we learn, and receive entertainment
 * <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">The <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; url(http: //www.wikispaces.com/i/a.gif); background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; cursor: pointer; padding-right: 10px;">refrigerator, because it has made it easy to store foods for long time
 * <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">The <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; url(http: //www.wikispaces.com/i/a.gif); background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; cursor: pointer; padding-right: 10px;">lightbulb, because it provides us with light
 * <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">A <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; url(http: //www.wikispaces.com/i/a.gif); background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; cursor: pointer; padding-right: 10px;">sandwich, because it is delicious and convenient
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<span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Building: <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Our "Library of Imagination" entrance would have a tunnel of completely white walls, floor and roof. The room where the items are kept would be bright and colourful. The bright and vivid colours will exercise your imagination and get you thinking. The buliding would consist of one massive room in which all of the items are held. The size of the room reflects the vast size of the human imagination. The roof of the building would be a collage of some of times best artwork. There would be many areas where you can sit and rest, and appreciate the inventions of your fellow man.

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