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=//__Library of Imagination__//=

In our library of imagination, numerous extraordinary objects are on display. There are three extraordinary rooms containing various types of creation originated from imagination.

Exterior Design


This is our Library of Imagination. It is built in the shape of a pyramid which comes from the idea of Egyptians; They created this structure completely from imagination. The Pyramid was created as a stairway to reach the Gods as they believed connecting to the Gods was important.

The floor within the pyramid lowers down into the Earth carrying a load of people to view our exibit. This is a modern way of presenting our Library of Imagination in the shape of an ancient architect. In this way, we wanted to connect the modern world with the ancient world.

**Interior Designs and Objects on Display**


 * __The first room__** is a room of science. Science is a big part of imagination and we decided to make a seperate room for all the objects that have any connections to science. Once you enter this room, you will be amazed at all the models and orginal copies of scientific objects. Mini models of trains go round and round around the whole room and even the room itself is made in the shape of an engine, containing all the intricate designs. Anyone who enjoys science will fall in love with this room and will refuse to come out. The objects that are on display include the following:

(Without engines, we would not have the transportations that we use frequently now. Engines were first invented by Sir Samuel Morland in 1897. He invented"water engines", and early kind of water pump. He used gunpoweder to activate his engine and it was used to pump up water with less proportion of strength. He even worked on ideas for a steam engine. His pumps were vastly used and were develped for such things as wells, fire fighting and draining wells and ponds.)
 * various models of engines which shows the evolution from steam engines to solar powered engines.

(In our opinion, invention of computers is one of the best things humans have done in the last couple hundred of years. The question everybody asks-"Who invented computers?"-is not a question that can be easily answered with one specific answer. Computer is made up of many complicated parts, each of which were invented by numerous different inventors; therefore, computer was not actually invented by one person. Only one thing we know for sure. It is that the first computer ever made was actually our brains.)
 * evolution of computers
 * submarines

(Submarines enabled to explore a whole new world under water and discover things never seen before. With this type of transportation, we vastly improved our understand of earth. A lot of invetors tried to create submarines but most of them failed and many died in their experiments. Those inventors include, Wiliam Bourne, Cornelius Jacobzoon Drebbel, and John Wilkins. The first successful submarine was invented by Cornelius Jacobzoon Drebbel, but his model was not very useful.)

media type="youtube" key="uT2dQB_OgFE?fs=1" height="214" width="291" (Airplanes allowed us to travel around world in a very convenient and fast way. Men have wanted to fly for a significantly long time. The first attempts were efforts to fly by flapping their arms, but they were not successful. The first actual success in fling was in hot air balloons. Next inventions were gliders invented by Sir George Cayel. Finally, Orville and Wilbur Wright found a way to make a machine fly without human force. The history of airplanes started from then.)
 * an airplane made by the Wright Brothers

(Microscopes helped us discover microorganisms that nobody ever thought existed. Nobody had even thought that there were living organisms that were so small that we can not even see them. The earliest microscopes were nothing but a tube and a lens. About 1590, Zaccharias Janssen and his son Hans discovered while experimenting with lenses that objects appeared enlarged when looked through the lenses. In 1609, Galileo, heard of these experiments and invented a much better early microscope witha focusing device.
 * microscopes

(In our opinion, science fiction books are one of the objects that require the most imagination. Ofcourse, science fiction was orginally came from people's stories which they told to others, but who actually started to write them down is a hard question to answer. Author and editor, Lester del Rey states that the first work of science fiction is the first recorded work of literature, __The Epic of Gilgamesh__, but others argue differently.)
 * science fiction books

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 * science fiction movies including Star Trek

media type="youtube" key="sI2uWOk25gI?fs=1" height="249" width="363" (Without these space ships we wouldn't have able to actually experience the space outside the Earth. Who would have ever thought that travelling to somewhere other than Earth was possible? Apparently, an inventor named John Hillman Jockenhowser thought it was possible. He invented the first Space ship in 1453. He was a college dropout but he was very intellegent with a load of imagination.)
 * __The second room__** is the smallest, but is our favourite. The objects in this room are all about astronomy. Discovering that Earth was not the only place in the whole wide universe was a chaos. People could not believe it but eventuall had to because it was the truth. However, with lack of accuracy, astronomers stated completely wrong facts and fought each other. We tried to make this room look as similar to space as possible. The ceiling of the room is extremely high and the room is somewhat dark. The ceiling shines with lights in the shape of stars and objects are shown with a ray of blue light. The room includes the following:
 * space ships that hang from the ceiling

(These telescopes enabled us to realize that there was a whole another world up in the space. Before the age of telescopes, nobody had ever thought about looking in to space. Telescopes changed the whole world completely. The earliest known working telescopes were invented in 1608 by Hans Lippershey. Galileo used these telescopes and significantly improved the quality. With his improved instrument, he discovered the satellites of Jupiter, spots on the sun and so on.)
 * Immense telescope

(Ptolemy develped a theory in astronomy from complete imagination. He thought that the Earth was in was the center of rotation for every planets. Everyone believed this theory until Galileo proved it wrong.)
 * Original copies of Ptolemy's drawings

__**The Hallway leading from the second room to the third**__ is called the hallway of mathematical equations because it is literally full of mathematic equations. This hallways is also part of the library because the mathematicians could not have invented the equations without their imagination. The equations below are only some of the many equasions written on the wall of this hallway.



__**The third room**__ is the last but not least. This room is the biggest and is the fanciest with gold decoration on the ceiling and luxurious and elegant designs everywhere throughout the room. This room is like a typical library of imagination with loads of books stacked on the shelves. All of thse books contain somekind of information that was essential to our lives long time ago. Antiques are on display all around the room and the objects including the following: (Who would have ever thought that making a musical melody with a stick of wood or metal was possible? It is impossible to determine when musical instruments were actually invented because it was so long ago. Many evidence of muscial instruments have been found but it is impossible tell for sure that they are actually muscial instruments. In 1995, a Solvenian archaeologist Ivan Turk discovered a bone carving that possibly could have been used to play fournotes of a diatonic scale.)
 * early models of musical instruments

(Mozart is one of the most well known composers in the world. He had a tremendous musical talent and were able to compose beutiful songs just from his imagination. He was able to imagine how each instruments were going to sound the together. He composed his first piece of music at age of five and his amazing career started from then.)
 * original copies of Mozart's compositions.

(For me, eyeglasses are one of the important things every invented. If there weren't any eyeglasses, many people would not have been able to see. Throughout the history, eyeglasses have been one of the oldest and improved objects in the world. These eye glasses were invented somwhere between 1500 to 1700. They were made of steel and were just simply designed to sit on the wearer's nose. No body had ever though this simple object would benefit millions of people around the world today.)
 * historical sets of eyeglasses

All of these objects presented make up our extraordinary Library of Imagination which we have created in our heads. In fact, our whole Library of Imagination is part of many objects presented here, because we, ourselves, created this library with our imagination. We hope we actually get to build our Library of Imagination in reality, containing things that we have listed here for our library.

= The Top Three objects for the Library of Imagination =

This assignment required tremendous effort for me because all the objects seemed perfect. In the end, I finally came up with three objects; however, I can not say that these are the BEST out of all the items of projects because all the objects seemed equally well- thought out and brilliant. I chose these three objects/rooms because they were the most meaningful and imaginative. (Actually, there are four I chose but I decided to leave the fourth one out because even though it was the most meaningful object, it had such deep meaning that it was too difficult for me to understand fully and explain in my own words in a well-develped paragraph. The object is: __**Cantaloupe Room**__)

The first object is **__Star Trek__** I didn't choose this just because I chose it to be in my presentation. When I came upon the documentary about how William Shatner changed the world, I was utterly amazed. I had known that Star Trek is a very old television program, but I had definitely not known that this inspired many people to invent numerous things. This is another great example of making the imagination of humans a reality. The art of "Movie magic" could create all of these seemingly outrageous objects; before Star Trek, nobody had ever thought about cellphones and personal computers. However, Wiliam Shatner, used his ingeious imagination to envision and put these in his show. If it wasn't for Wiliam Shatner, our lives would be more inconvenient and slower. Because we have people like Wiliam Shatner, our lives have evolved to what we are living in now and those people will lead us in to tomorrow's technology.

The second object is __**Lego**__. Of course lego is something that is neither extravagant nor prominent. Lego is just a little object that little children always play with to build things in any shape they want. How could this little piece of toy meaningful? To enjoy playing with lego, one needs imagination. Without imagination, playing lego would be considered something to do to waste time. However, everybody has imagination, even a little child who can't even walk or talk. I am sure that everyone in my class have played with lego when they were young; infact, some might still enjoy lego. Lego enables one to invision and create something from his or her own imagination, whether it is a house, a boat or something as simple as a box. Lego can be seen as a doorway to the world of imagination: where it starts altogether.

The third one is, infact, not an object, but a room: __**A room in a shape of a pyramid with the missing top**__. When Sirus and Bruno were doing their presentation, descriptioin of this room caught my eye. Pyramids were missing their tops for a long time, but I hadn't realized that the missing top could be seen as what Sirus and Bruno described in their presentation. They stated," To symbolize imperfection, a roughly hewn square based triangular prism that lacks its top. This represents the necessity of invention, for invention essentially closes the gap in between perfection and imperfection. Humanity cannot, and never will be perfect. Yet by using inventions, we make our lives easier." This is an utterly gorgeous description. We, humans are born unperfect; we are not made to be perfect. However, with our developing technology, we are inching towards the top of the pyramid, the perfectness. Technology will definitely improve our lives, but will never make it perfect; there will always be something missing from our lives. Humans' efforts to reach the top of the pyramid will never cease and the continuous efforts will eventually lead to beneficial concequences, including significant improvement in our technology.