Meanwhile, the French
How much do NY-ians love its trains? They make intense history videos like this.
Jago Hazzard
makes wonderful, history-heavy, and V amusing London Tube videos. I’m not even a Tube or train fanatic, but I’m addicted to his channel.
As @FGD135 had it just yesterday…
Mornington Crescent!
Can we get the Dems to use Chuck Schumer’s body for that?
There is an example of this on a smaller scale in the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago, in the only permanent building from the 1893 Columbian Exposition. It’s in a busy corridor, so the effect is still noticeable, but the exhibit is specifically geared toward teaching the concept to children.
ETA:
There’s also one in the Congress building, where John Adams’ desk used to be (but that it existed when his desk was there is an urban legend).
Oyster bar there, huh? Want to discover a new special friend while visiting the gallery? Stand at a corner. Whisper this, as Laurence Olivier’s Crassus said to Tony Curtis’s Antoninus: “My tastes include both snails and oysters.”
This goes beyond interesting reading.
Heroic? Inconceivable? Epic?
CW: there’s a plethora of sad, violent, ugly stuff that these kids went through.
Youtuber Clickspring has a video series where he painstakingly builds a replica of the mechanism. For the most part he uses tools of the day and explains where the original designers probably made design decisions along the way. He also takes time to explain how precision tools would have been made back then. Well worth the watch.
Playlist below.
Complete with results (animations) of computational fluid dynamics simulations!
Oh cool! I love this kind of history nerd stuff!
Oh, that’s so sad… 
God, what are we DOING on this planet? I don’t even know anymore…