Deutsches Technikmuseum Berlin

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The German Museum of Technology

Deutsches Technikmuseum Berlin ("German Museum of Technology") was founded in 1982 in Berlin, Germany, and exhibits a large collection of historical technical artifacts. The museum's main emphasis is on rail transport, but it also features exhibits of various sorts of industrial technology. Recently, it has opened both maritime and aviation exhibition halls. The museum also contains a science center called Spectrum.

On May 15, 2002, a special exhibition opened which featured the inventions of computer pioneer Konrad Zuse.

It is located in the Kreuzberg district of Berlin, in buildings formerly part of the freight depot attached to the Anhalter Bahnhof. The building's famous C-47 'Raisinbomber' Skytrain can be seen with ease from the top of the Fernsehturm Television Tower and from a descending aircraft landing at Tempelhof Airport.

The museum contains many relics throughout, with a large aircraft section which houses a Messerschmitt Bf 110, Flak cannon, Stuka and a V-1 flying bomb.

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19th century - 20th century - 21st century
1950s 1960s 1970s - 1980s - 1990s 2000s 2010s
1979 1980 1981 - 1982 - 1983 1984 1985

Year 1982 (MCMLXXXII
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Berlin

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Location of Berlin within Germany / EU

Coordinates
Time zone CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2)
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Anthem
"Das Lied der Deutschen" (third stanza)
also called "Einigkeit und Recht und Freiheit"
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computer is a machine which manipulates data according to a list of instructions.

Computers take numerous physical forms. The first devices that resemble modern computers date to the mid-20th century (around 1940 - 1941), although the computer concept and various machines
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Konrad Zuse

Konrad Zuse in 1992
Born June 22, 1910
Berlin, German Empire
Died December 18, 1995
HÃ¼nfeld, Germany
Residence Germany
Field Computer Science
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Kreuzberg, located south of Berlin-Mitte, is one of the best-known boroughs of Berlin, famous for its nightlife and its left-leaning electorate as well as its problems with criminality, the drug scene and a very high number of immigrants.
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The Anhalter Bahnhof is a former railway terminus in Berlin, Germany, about 600 m south east of Potsdamer Platz. Although it closed more than half a century ago, the name lives on at a nearby station on the city's S-Bahn network and also covered here.
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Type Military transport aircraft
Manufacturer Douglas Aircraft Company
Designed by Douglas Aircraft
Primary users U.S. Army Air Force
US Air Force
Royal Air Force
See operators
Number built >10,000

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Fernsehturm (German for "television tower") is a television tower in the middle of Berlin, Germany. It is a well-known landmark, close to Alexanderplatz. The tower was built between 1965 and 1969 by the former German Democratic Republic (GDR), and its image was used as a symbol of
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Tempelhof International Airport (IATA: THF, ICAO: EDDI) a.k.a. Berlin Tempelhof (German: Flughafen Tempelhof) is an airport in Berlin, Germany, situated in the south-central borough of Tempelhof-SchÃ¶neberg.
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Type Night Fighter/Fighter Bomber
Manufacturer Bayerische Flugzeugwerke
Messerschmitt
Designed by Willy Messerschmitt
Maiden flight 12 May 1936
Introduced 1937
Retired 1945 (Luftwaffe)
Primary users Luftwaffe
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Anti-aircraft warfare, or air defence, is any method of engaging military aircraft in combat from the ground. Various guns and cannons have been used in this role since the first military aircraft were used in World War I, growing in power and accuracy over the years.
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Type dive bomber
Manufacturer Junkers
Introduction 1937
Retired 1945
Primary users Luftwaffe
Regia Aeronautica
Number built 5,752

The Junkers Ju 87 or Stuka as it became universally known (from
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V-1 (German: Vergeltungswaffe 1) was the first guided missile used in war and the forerunner of today's cruise missile. The V-1 was developed at PeenemÃ¼nde by the German Luftwaffe during the Second World War.
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geographic coordinate system enables every location on the earth to be specified by the three coordinates of a spherical coordinate system aligned with the spin axis of the Earth.
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