The Museum That Might Have Been: The Smithsonian's National Museum of Engineering and Industry
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PrintDocuments the early conception of a museum for the history of technology, as articulated by Carl W. Mitman, chief curator in the 1920s of the Smithsonian's technological collections. Article traces the historical shifts in attitudes towards technology at the Smithsonian's National Museum over the fifty year period, 1880-1930.
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Molella was Chairman of the Department of History of Science and Technology at the National Museum of American History at the time. An early version of this article was presented at a 1987 "Collections and Culture" conference at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.
Journal of the Society for the History of Technology (Journal)
Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Institution Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu
1991
pp. 237-263