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  1. Archives Office, Smithsonian Institution Building

    Archives Office, Smithsonian Institution Building

    • Date: c. 1897
    • Creator: Unknown
    • Creator: Unknown

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  3. Two-page spread of a booklet containing broadcast information for “The World Is Yours” and a history of Thomas Davenport. A black and white drawing of a track with a motor appears at the top middle of the right-hand page.

    The World Is Yours: Unheralded American Inventors

    • Date: November 17, 2020
    • Creator: Kira M. Sobers
    • Description: Did you know that Joseph Francis invented the first metal life-saving boat? Or that Gail Borden invented the process for creating condensed milk? Neither did I until I heard The World Is Yours episode titled “Unheraled American Inventors,” which originally aired on April 4, 1937.Where most of the episodes I’ve listened to begin with the host walking up to two people while they

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  5. Finding Aid

    SIA Acc. 84-081, Smithsonian Institution Office of Design and Construction, Project Files, 1973, 1977-1982

    • Date: 1977 1977-1982 1973, 1977-1982
    • Creator: Smithsonian Institution. Office of Design and Construction
    • Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives

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  7. Smithsonian Legal Document

    An act making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-three, and for other purposes

    • Date: 1893 08/05/1892
    • Creator: 52d Congress, Sess. 1, 1892
    • Creator: 52d Congress, Sess. 1, 1892

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  9. Archives Room, East Wing, Smithsonian Institution Building, or Castle

    Archives Room, East Wing, Smithsonian Institution Building, or Castle

    • Date: 1900 Circa 1900s
    • Creator: United States National Museum Photographic Laboratory

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  11. Archives Room, East Wing, Smithsonian Institution Building, or Castle

    Archives Room, East Wing, Smithsonian Institution Building, or Castle

    • Date: 1900 Circa 1900s
    • Creator: United States National Museum Photographic Laboratory

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  13. (left to right): Lewis H. Carris (1869-1950), William Fellowes Morgan (1861-1943), and Preston Strong Millar (b. 1880)

    (left to right): Lewis H. Carris (1869-1950), William Fellowes Morgan (1861-1943), and Preston Strong Millar (b. 1880)

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    • SI History Chronology

      Joseph Henry's First European Tour

      • Date: March 14-October 2, 1837

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    • Finding Aid

      SIA Acc. 07-145, Smithsonian Institution Office of the Secretary, Administrative Records, 2001

      • Date: 2001
      • Creator: Smithsonian Institution. Office of the Secretary
      • Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives

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    • Blog Post

      Augmented Reality? Something Wrong With That?

      • Date: June 18, 2009
      • Creator: Marvin Heiferman
      • Description: [caption id="attachment_1356" align="aligncenter" width="251" caption="Tommy Dodgen, age 4, standing by the largest lamp in the world : Tampa, Florida, by unknown photographer, 1947, State Library and Archives of Florida, Commerce Collection."][/caption] The cover shot of Popular Science’s July issue, which focuses on the future of energy, uses some interesting new

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    • Blog Post

      And the Winner Is . . . Photography!

      • Date: October 9, 2009
      • Creator: Marvin Heiferman
      • Description: [caption id="attachment_2474" align="aligncenter" width="300" caption="Silicon Eye, from the inner core.... the 5 Megapixel CCD sensor that electronically captures the image, by Flickr user jurvetson."][/caption] The Nobel Prize jury recently announced three winners in physics, who’ve been dubbed "the masters of light" for their innovations in the ways photographic images are

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    • Finding Aid

      SIA Acc. 14-207, Smithsonian Institution Office of Telecommunications, Productions, c. 1976-1994

      • Date: 1976 1976-1994 c 1976-1994 Revolution, 1775-1783
      • Creator: Smithsonian Institution. Office of Telecommunications
      • Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives

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