The classrooms were full. Walls were decorated for the most part with icons/pictures of Saints and Heroes (Kolokotronis, Karaiskakis). On National Holidays they were crowned with laurel branches.
Top shelf: Rocks and microscope Second shelf: Newton’s disk: Newton performed an experiment which proved that the white light is actually a combination/mixture of the seven colors of the Iris. Third shelf: Weighing vials and chemistry books. Fourth shelf:Manifold transformer 600: a device that converts high voltage alternating current to low voltage alternating current and …
Left image: First and third shelf: Wooden geometric instruments. Second shelf: Experimental scales (the first pharmacists used scales) Right image: Kidney section and the Nervous System.
Visual arts and crafts (woodworking tools and handicrafts in frames): All schools cultivated intellectual and manual (technical) skills. Girls also brought their embroidery to school. These manual skills would be useful in their daily lives, later. Such activities are not taught in schools nowadays as we have moved from the material to the …
Visual arts and crafts (woodworking tools and handicrafts in frames): All schools cultivated intellectual and manual (technical) skills. Girls also brought their embroidery to school. These manual skills would be useful in their daily lives, later. Such activities are not taught in schools nowadays as we have moved from the material to the immaterial age.
Top shelf: 1950 Erika typewriter (with a case): a machine that we used to write a text by pressing its keys. The typewriter keyboard was later imitated by the manufactures of the first computers’ keyboards Humorous element: less material today, less effort. From the typewriter to the touch screens.
Instruments of the stereometry and diabetes Properties of solids are area and volume . Reference to the museum’s oldest book “Practical geometry” of 1925. Plate using slate for writing that went out by hand or with one little rag. Humorous element: Comparison of the plate with the tablet.
Kourkosoula: improvised little toy with two nuts (double whirlpool). Tsoupleka: shooting game of small objects (paper sheets, seeds, etc). Multicolored glass balls (bilies): it was a competitive game, which required accuracy, that was rewarded by winning the opponent’s balls. More specifically, a good ball was called mana / mother. Children used to put the balls …
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