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| Photo by Tim Kent |
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| Photo by Tim Kent |
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| Photo by Tim Kent |
This is the kind of niftiness you can see at the Electricity Museum. All of these large machines were kept from the old power plant. In use from 1914 until 1983, a young business man convinced the government after it closed to split the plant into an art museum on one side, with the power plant museum on the other.
Santral means power in Turkish, and does not designate its relation to the city center; the
Santral Istanbul opened in 2004.
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| Photo by Tim Kent |
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| Photo by Tim Kent |
If you don't speak Turkish then what little is explained will be incomprehensible as it is not translated. But it really does not matter. The museum is an opportunity to see mammoth machines that generated enough power to keep a city going. If you know something about electricity then seeing these behemoths is fantastic, and if you did not care for this portion of science class then just enjoy wandering around an old plant and playing with nobs, staring in wonder.
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