Results for "Navigation -- History"
- SI History Bibliography
Science in the Civil War: The Permanent Commission of the Navy Department
- Date: 1958 Civil War, 1861-1865
- Creator: Reingold, Nathan 1927-
- Creator: Reingold, Nathan 1927-
Samuel P. Langley Commemorative Statue
- Date: c. 1915
- Creator: Unknown
- Creator: Unknown
- Blog Post
What’s in a Name? Uncovering Early Women Computers
- Date: December 3, 2019
- Description: We’re uncovering names of some of the earliest women in science at the Smithsonian.
Constance Miller (Phelps) (b. 1913)
- Date: 1938
- Smithsonian Legal Document
Smithsonian Institution, Board of Regents, Minutes, 1861
- Date: 1879 February 22, 1861
- Creator: Board of Regents
- Creator: Board of Regents
Joseph Henry Becomes Chairman of U.S. Light-House Board
- Date: October 1871
Presentation of Langley Medal to Admiral Byrd
- Date: 1931
- Creator: Unknown
- Creator: Unknown
- Webpage
Louis R. Purnell
- Date: August 23, 2016
- Description: A twentieth century Renaissance man, Louis R. Purnell lived a remarkable life. His career began in the skies above Italy and Germany, where he flew 88 combat missions as an original member of the Tuskegee Airmen. After the war, while working at the National Museum of Natural History, he traveled the world’s oceans collecting marine specimens, taught himself geology and
- SI History Bibliography
The River Basin Surveys Program
- Date: 1994
- Creator: Glenn, James R
- Creator: Glenn, James R
Gone in a Flash
- Date: February 9, 2021
- Description: The end of Adobe Flash Player support means challenges in preserving older websites and online games.
- Blog Post
Happy paper anniversary?
- Date: October 7, 2010
- Creator: Nora Lockshin
- Description: [caption id="attachment_8465" align="alignright" width="199" caption="Beth Antoine, Postgraduate Fellow in Conservation, conducts research on the letter or copy press books of Secretary Spencer F. Baird, Courtesy of Nora Lockshin."][/caption] One year ago on October 8th, after several years of planning, waiting, and building, the Smithsonian Center for Archives Conservation
- Blog Post
Link Love: 12/17/2010
- Date: December 17, 2010
- Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
- Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="368" caption="The first flight on December 17, 1903, at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina with Orville Wright at the controls of the Wright Flyer, by Unidentified photographer, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives Record Unit 95 Box 25 Folder 41, Negative Number: 2002-12169."][/caption] On this day in 1903 the Wright Brothers
