An aficionado of insulation, the Mummy is the perfect host for presenting energy-saving information that visitors can utilize in their own lives and homes. As visitors exit this area, a life-size, moving Frankenstein monster model is triggered by a motion sensor so that thunder and lightning crackle as the monster's eyes stare back at usually startled visitors. Exhibition Components Bicycle Generator Pneumatic Rocket Magnetic Pendulums Building a Better Pyramid Kinetic Transfer Machine Solar Energy Electricity Table Multimedia Computer Station Bicycle Generator Visitors pedal a stationary bicycle to run a fan, light a light bulb or power a 14-amp DC motor. An amp meter indicates how much current the visitor is generating as he or she pedals, with certain devices requiring harder pedaling to make them work. This exhibit demonstrates storing potential energy and converting it to kinetic energy by inviting visitors to power a rocket.
Visitors pump a lever to create compressed air.
Then they release the air in the form of an air blast, which shoots the rocket from its resting state to the ceiling, if enough energy was stored. Magnetic Pendulum Visitors swing one of two pendulums back and forth and notice that the other pendulum starts to swing also. When a wire coil moves through the field, it generates an electric current. This current moves through the wires to the seond coil, generating a new magnetic field. That field interacts with the field of the magnet, alternately attracting and repulsing, causing the pendulum to swing.