Results for "Engineering -- History"
- Blog Post
Broadcasting Live from the Sun...
- Date: November 22, 2016
- Creator: Ellen Alers
- Description: A look at fifth Secretary of the Smithsonian, Charles Greeley Abbot's work into solar energy.
- Blog Post
Broadcasting Live from the Sun...
- Date: November 22, 2016
- Creator: Ellen Alers
- Description: A look at fifth Secretary of the Smithsonian, Charles Greeley Abbot's work into solar energy.
- 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
- Blog Post
Stumped!
- Date: October 12, 2010
- Creator: Ellen Alers
- Description: [caption id="" align="alignleft" width="219" caption="Unidentified Washington, DC Church, 1919, by Martin A. Gruber, Black-and-white photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Martin A. Gruber Photograph Collection, 1919-1924, RU007355."][/caption] Recently the Smithsonian Institution Archives posted some images from the Martin A. Gruber Photograph Collection,