Experience communication through the years, from smoke signals to the latest technology — FiOS — in a new exhibit opening at the Safety Harbor Museum of Regional History. Displays include early telegraphs, hand-cranked telephones, candlestick telephones, an operators switch board, early radios and television.
The exhibit include a hands-on interactive work area with fully functional communications equipment from times past.
The exhibit will open Tuesday, Sept. 16 and run through January 2009.
The museum also is available for school tours featuring the Pre-History Gallery with bones, teeth, arrow heads covering the period from 12,000 BC to 1550 AD. A volunteer leads a “hands on” demonstration of ancient tools, such as a drill, fire-starting tools and an atlatl, a throwing spear and launching stick.
Contact the Safety Harbor Museum of Regional History at 727-726-1668 or visit www.safetyharbormuseum.org.
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