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In addition to the vehicles, agricultural equipment,
weapons with a blade and firearms, the Museum Dufresne possesses an important
number of antique machines.
This part of the museum, as is the case for the vehicles, constitutes
a veritable teaching tool available for schools groups which more
frequently visit the museum today.
For example, there is an impressive guillotine
from the French Revolution, proudly standing in its wagon, which was
used in Indre-et-Loire at the end of the 19th century, a perfume atomizer
by Coty, a Fontaine turbine which ran the wheel in the old mill where the museum is now
located, a Meteor linotype which was used for the daily newspaper "La Nouvelle
République", a cognac still, a re-creation of the manufacturing
facilities of the company Bassereau in Tours with the workshop foreman's
office and of course all of the weaving machines from the period, a portable copper sulfate sprayer dating from 1880, a Piguet
steam engine from 1898, a wine filter which filtered the vintages
for the English court at the beginning of the 20th century... |
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