Results for "Civil engineering"
- Finding Aid
SIA Acc. 03-070, National Museum of History and Technology (U.S.) Division of Preindustrial Cultural History, Exhibition Records, 1953-1975
- Date: 1953 1953-1975
- Creator: National Museum of History and Technology. Division of Preindustrial Cultural History
- Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives
- Smithsonian Legal Document
An Act Making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and thirteen, and for other purposes
- Date: 1913 08/24/1912
- Creator: 62d Congress, Sess. 2, 1912
- Creator: 62d Congress, Sess. 2, 1912
- Finding Aid
SIA Acc. 83-058, Mayr, Otto, Otto Mayr Papers, 1960-2004
- Date: 1960 1960-2004
- Creator: Mayr, Otto
- Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives
- Blog Post
Road trip!
- Date: June 29, 2011
- Creator: Ellen Alers
- Description: It was July 1880 in Washington, DC and Smithsonian Secretary, Spencer Baird, had fled the city with his family for cool ocean breezes and to study the fishing grounds off the New England coast at Woods Hole on Cape Cod. For those left behind minding the Smithsonian Castle, it was probably hot, humid, and hellish in town and they were in need of relief. Luckily, the proprietors
- Finding Aid
SIA RU007268, Watkins, J. Elfreth (John Elfreth) 1852-1903, J. Elfreth Watkins Collection, 1869, 1881-1903, 1953, 1966 and undated
- Date: 1869 1869-1966 1869, 1881-1903, 1953, 1966 and undated
- Creator: Watkins, J. Elfreth (John Elfreth), 1852-1903
- Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives
- Document
Torch 10/1965
- Description: SIA Record Unit 000371, Smithsonian Institution., Office of Public Affairs, The Torch, 1955-1960, 1965-1988, 1965 Box 1 Folder 10
The Smithsonian Secretaries: That Tall Man from New York, Part II
- Date: April 28, 2016
- Creator: Pamela M. Henson
- Description: The 1846 legislation that established the Smithsonian Institution provided for a Secretary, appointed by the Board of Regents, who would run the day-to-day affairs of the Institution. When David Skorton became Secretary last year, he was the thirteenth person to take on that responsibility. In our last blog, we discussed the first six and now we’ll look at seven through
- Finding Aid
SIA RU000637, Smithsonian Institution Office of Facilities Planning and Engineering Services, Records, 1899-1913, 1949, 1960-1978
- Date: 1899 1899-1978 1899-1913, 1949, 1960-1978
- Creator: Smithsonian Institution. Office of Facilities Planning and Engineering Services
- Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives
Spotlight: Herman Henry Diebitsch and Josephine Diebitsch Peary
- Date: June 24, 2021
- Creator: Marguerite Roby
- Description: We’re taking a closer look at Smithsonian clerk Herman Henry Diebitsch and his daughter, Arctic explorer Josephine Diebitsch Peary.
Samuel Pierpont Langley and the Personal Equation Problem
- Date: April 12, 2018
- Description: The term “personal equation” came into use in the 19th century as scientists found that observers have inherent biases: some anticipate events, and some report events after they have occurred. Recognition of the problem led to a spate of personal equation instruments: some measured biases of this sort, and some reduced the effect of personal errors. Most of these
- Finding Aid
SIA Acc. 05-115, Bedini, Silvio A, Silvio A. Bedini Papers, 1965-1985
- Date: 1965 1965-1985
- Creator: Bedini, Silvio A.
- Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives
- Finding Aid
SIA RU000276, National Museum of History and Technology (U.S.) Office of the Director, Records, 1944-1975
- Date: 1944 1944-1975
- Creator: National Museum of History and Technology. Office of the Director
- Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives