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Summary

"Edison: Lighting a Revolution" opens at the National Museum of History and Technology (now known as the National Museum of American History), in celebration of the one hundredth anniversary of Thomas Alva Edison's invention of the light bulb.

Subject

  • Edison, Thomas A (Thomas Alva) 1847-1931
  • National Museum of American History (U.S.) (NMAH)
  • National Museum of History and Technology (U.S.)
  • Edison: Lighting a Revolution (Exhibition) (1979: Washington, D.C.)

Category

Chronology of Smithsonian History

Notes

  • The "Torch" gives the date of the opening of the exhibit as October 10.
  • Annual Report of the Smithsonian Institution for the year 1980, p. 347
  • Torch, 10/1979, p. 5.

Contact information

Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Institution Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu

Date

October 9, 1979

Topic

  • Exhibit openings
  • Exhibitions

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