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  1. Large opening at the excacvation site yielding an abundance of ammonium chloride, 1872. Record Unit 7000 - James Smithson Collection, 1796-1951, c. 1974, 1981-1983, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Neg. No. SIA2009-0856.

    Smithsonian Backs Journey to the Center of the Earth

    • Date: April 1, 2014
    • Creator: Courtney Bellizzi
    • Description: In 1864, Jules Verne’s Journey to the Center of the Earth sparked people’s imagination, but have you heard that before the novel was published, the Smithsonian attempted a journey of its own.

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    Getting Your Due, Samuel Pierpont Langley

    • Date: November 28, 2017
    • Creator: Ricc Ferrante
    • Description: It can be so frustrating to put great effort into something, and then to have your work and achievements called into question. I can't begin to imagine how frustrated Samuel Pierpont Langley was in 1903. By that time, he had spent over forty years studying astrophysics and aerodynamics. His work on astronomically-derived time measurement in the late 1860's is the heart of the

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