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Hotel Packages | The Field Museum
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Haga clic aquí para ver el sitio web en español. Several Chicago-area hotels are offering special VIP packages that include tickets to see. The Machine Inside: Biomechanics. Showing only at The Field Museum from March 12, 2014, through January 4, 2015. To offer you maximum flexibility during your stay, VIP Hotel Guest Tickets to see. The Machine Inside: Biomechanics. Shop for the extraordinary in our online store. CREATE YOUR OWN ONE-OF-A-KIND SPECIES. After he patented Velcro in 1955, it spread like wil...
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Built to Discover | The Field Museum
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Haga clic aquí para ver el sitio web en español. Eyes, Ears, and Beyond. To navigate, hunt, and communicate, living things must decode the mysterious world around them. Extraordinary eyes and ears certainly come in handy for finding food and avoiding disaster. But a few of these creatures collect clues using astonishing equipment that goes far beyond the range of our fives senses to detect forces we can only imagine. After going for a walk through the Swiss Alps in 1941, electrical engineer George de Mes...
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Events & Programs | The Field Museum
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Haga clic aquí para ver el sitio web en español. Art and Science Spotlight. Watch as local artist Ian Sherwin builds a unique sculpture illustrating the marvels of biomechanics, then use your drawing skills to create your own one-of-a-kind species. Will it be a super-fast runner, spin spider webs of steel, or be able to detach its jaw to grab its prey? Saturday, March 15, 2014. 11:00 am 2:00 pm. Free w/ Basic Admission. In the spring, trees grow wider xylem to transport more water and nutrients to the gr...
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Exhibition Highlights | The Field Museum
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Haga clic aquí para ver el sitio web en español. Investigate the wonderful ways plants and animals endure Earth’s most extreme elements in. The Machine Inside: Biomechanics. A bilingual exhibition in both English and Spanish, appearing only at The Field Museum from March 12, 2014, through January 4, 2015. You’ll marvel at the surprising adaptations of plants and animals that have inspired technological breakthroughs, such as Velcro, modern chainsaws and wind turbines, prosthetic limbs and spinal disc rep...
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Roadmap | The Field Museum
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Haga clic aquí para ver el sitio web en español. Outlines our educational offerings related to. The Machine Inside: Biomechanics. This device is designed to help you figure out how the topic of biomechanics, the study of nature through the lens of physics, can fit into your middle or high school curriculum. Trees don’t use pumps to transport fluid. Instead, as water evaporates from the leaves, a vacuum is created that pulls water upward from the roots via tiny vertical tubes called. In the spring, trees ...
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Behind the scenes | The Field Museum
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Haga clic aquí para ver el sitio web en español. Be Inspired by Nature’s Ingenuity. Take a moment to explore the stories and science behind. The Machine Inside: Biomechanics. You’ll discover how the intricate inner workings of plants and animals help them find their next meal, spring into action, and decode the mysteries of the world around them. Then see how humans have mined and mimicked nature’s designs to improve our own lives! After he patented Velcro in 1955, it spread like wildfire even to space&#...
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Biomechanics | The Field Museum
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Haga clic aquí para ver el sitio web en español. Shrimp that can break through glass? Spider webs that are stronger than steel? Sharks that use their snouts to sense the electrical impulses of their prey? Find out why every living thing including humans is a machine built to survive, move, and discover, and explore the ways in which these marvels of natural engineering have inspired ingenious man-made mechanisms. Come witness how evolution is Earth’s greatest inventor in. The Machine Inside: Biomechanics.
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Visit the Exhibition | The Field Museum
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Haga clic aquí para ver el sitio web en español. Marvel at The Machines Inside Us All! Explore how plants and animals stay in one piece and withstand the elements using an astonishing array of internal apparatuses. Compare the similarities between muscles and motors, legs and springs, claws and clamps, and many more mechanisms to learn how all living things have evolved the right tools for the job of survival. Check out exhibition hours, ticket information, directions, and more. After he patented Velcro ...
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Explore more | The Field Museum
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Haga clic aquí para ver el sitio web en español. Take a moment to download our educational resources and view photos and videos from. The Machine Inside: Biomechanics. You’ll witness amazing animal adaptations and how see they’ve inspired astonishing human inventions, and you’ll discover how scientists from The Field Museum and other institutions are learning even more about the tools and technologies that make certain living creatures so successful. After he patented Velcro in 1955, it spread like wildf...
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