Description: In November of 1996, the electric guitar, its history and its makers, were the focus of attention at the National Museum of American History.
Description: A publication by Li Ju, a Chinese freelance photographer, retraces the steps of the Clark Expedition, and includes modern images of the sites photographed during the Clark Expedition.
Description: The Walt Disney designed--and General Electric sponsored--look at America’s figurative and literal electric future, Progressland, wowed visitors at the 1964 World’s Fair--and elements of it exist today in both Disneyland and Disney World theme parks.
Description: When curators at the Smithsonian National Museum of American History looked at seven radiometers in storage, they learned the instruments had been at the Smithsonian for nearly one hundred fifty years.
Description: [caption width="189" caption="Wanda Margarite Kirkbride Farr (b. 1895), sitting in lab with microscope, Smithsonian Insitution Archives"][/caption] [caption id="attachment_238" width="162" caption="New Use for Light Reflector, National Museum of American History"][/caption]I was intrigued by a recent post on the National Museum of American History’s (NMAH) blog about the
Description: The Smithsonian Institution Archives YouTube channel has a new dedicated playlist for the Science Media Group Collection, which features videos from the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory program that was active from 1989 to 2013.
Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="430" caption="Bernard Finn, curator in Division of Electricity & Nuclear Energy (NMHT), Richard Moskow (Silver Creations, Ltd.) and Randall King (Lanello Reserves, Inc.) examine a section of the 1858 Atlantic cable, c. 1974, by Unidentified photographer, Black and white photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit
Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="407" caption="The electricity laboratory in one of the pavilions of the United States National Museum, now known as the Arts and Industries Building, around the turn of the 20th century, c. 1890, Unknown photographer, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 95, Box 38, Folder 9, Negative Number: MAH-3668.