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Displaying vast and outlandish creatures has always been a draw for the Natural History Museum. In 1937, the museum embarked on one of the most ambitious projects it had ever undertaken. Desiring an exhibit that would both astound and educate, construction began on a model of the largest animal that has ever lived the blue whale. It really was a huge, huge feat. The amount of resources, manpower and everything else that went into the model just before the start of the World War II, I think. If they' d left it any later, possibly the model would never have been constructed. The mammoth task of creating a 90foot whale had fallen to the museum' s chief model maker, Percy Stammwitz. Using photographs and scientific records, Percy and his team toiled for 18 months, building the model in situ in the newlyopened Whale Hall. Constructed on a wooden subframe, covered in wire mesh and expertly sculpted in plaster of Paris, the finished model weighed in at over six tonnes. |
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chén liè de dà liàng qí yì shēng wù, yī zhí dōu shì zì rán lì shǐ bó wù guǎn mèi lì suǒ zài. 1937 nián bó wù guǎn zhǎn chū le shǐ shàng zuì wéi xióng xīn bó bó de xiàng mù, guǎn fāng xī wàng zhǎn pǐn jì zhèn hàn yòu yǒu qǐ fā xìng. yú shì tā men kāi shǐ zhì zào shǐ shàng zuì dà dòng wù de mó xíng lán jīng mó xíng. zhè gè gōng chéng liàng hào fèi jù dà, jiàn zào mó xíng de zī yuán rén lì yǐ jí qí tā, gāng hǎo zài èr zhàn zhī qián kāi shǐ tóu rù. rú guǒ zài shāo yǒu tuō yán, kě néng zhè gè mó xíng jiù zào bù chū lái le. jiàn zào 90 yīng chǐ jīng yú mó xíng de jiān jù rèn wù, luò dào le bó wù guǎn shǒu xí mó xíng zhì zuò zhě, pò xī sī dān wǔ zī de jiān shàng. tōng guò tú piàn hé kē xué jì lù, pò xī hé tā de tuán duì jiān kǔ gōng zuò le yī nián bàn, zài xīn kāi fàng de jīng yú guǎn jiù dì jiàn zào le mó xíng, chéng pǐn mó xíng jiàn zào zài mù zhì jī jià shàng bèi jīn shǔ sī wǎng suǒ fù gài, bìng yòng shú shí gāo jìn xíng jīng xīn sù xíng, qí zhòng liàng chāo guò 6 gōng dūn. |