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About the collector | |
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interest in plugs
and sockets started when I was working as a geneticist at University of
Amsterdam. Because of projects with colleagues abroad and congresses
all over the world I was confronted with various types of plugs and
sockets. Gradually I became fascinated (not frustrated !) by the
diversity of incompatible systems. When my university institute moved to a new building in the early 1990s, a technician found some old three-phase plugs and sockets (see images above). Knowing that I was not only interested in DNA and chromosomes, he dropped them on my desk, rather than in the rubbish bin. It was at that time that the idea was born to start collecting old and new plugs and sockets from all over the world. An important aspect of collecting plugs and sockets is to preserve a representative, worldwide selection of tools that are used each day by everybody, usually without paying any attention to them. I hope that the collection will give next generations the opportunity to look back on a variety of indispensable electric devices that were used in the past. |
Through the years the collection has grown to more than thousand of items, stored in boxes. Occasionally people are interested in my unusual hobby, but the collection is not particular accessible to others. My retirement has
marked a new phase of life in which priorities are re-defined. Creating
a digital museum of plugs and sockets became a feasible
project. Developing an internet site is a never ending story. The
collection grows steadily and there are
always details that have to be improved. Feel free to
contact me. Oof Oud*, Note that the mail address is not clickable to discourage systems that automatically screen sites for email addresses that can be misused for the distribution of junk mail. * Oof is an uncommon
first name, not related to the English word oaf; |
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