Results for "Patents"
Happy National Inventors Day!
- Date: February 11, 2021
- Creator: Mitch Toda
- Description: We wish you a Happy National Inventors Day and invite you to check out the Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation at the National Museum of American History!
Link Love: 5/18/2018
- Date: May 18, 2018
- Creator: Effie Kapsalis
- Description: The Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery and National Museum of African American History and Culture acquired a portrait of Henrietta Lacks, the African American woman whose cells were unknowingly contributed to over 10,000 medical patents, aiding research and benefiting patients with polio, AIDS, Parkinson’s disease and other conditions. [via Smithsonian
- SI History Bibliography
A Popular Catalogue of the Extraordinary Curiosities in the National Institute, arranged in the building belonging to the Patent Office. Curiosities collected from all parts of the world, by the officers of the Army and Navy of the United States ..
- Date: 1859
- Creator: National Institute for the Promotion of Science
- Creator: National Institute for the Promotion of Science
Postcard of the Patent Office
- Date: c. 1907-1915
- Creator: Unknown
- Creator: Unknown
Link Love: 6/1/2012
- Date: June 1, 2012
- Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
- Description: Link Love: a weekly blog feature with links to interesting videos and stories regarding archival issues, the Smithsonian, and history.
- Web Page
Patent Office Building, Exterior
- Date: 1850?
- Creator: Unknown
- Creator: Unknown
- Shi
Patent Office Building, Exterior
- Date: 1846
- Creator: Plumbe, John
- Creator: Plumbe, John
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Patent Office Building, Interior
- Date: 1900
- Creator: Johnston, Frances Benjamin 1864-1952
- Creator: Johnston, Frances Benjamin 1864-1952
Science Service, Up Close: Patent Parades, Silk Purses, and Snake Bite Remedies
- Date: March 30, 2017
- Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
- Description: Everyone loves a parade – especially one followed by a banquet. When scientists and politicians met in Washington, D.C., on November 23, 1936, to celebrate the centennial of the U.S. patent system, they listened first to a conventional program of speeches. Then, in the afternoon, Science Service director Watson Davis arranged something different: a “Research Parade” featuring
Postcard of the Patent Office Building
- Date: c. 1915-1930
- Creator: B.S. Reynolds Co. Washington, DC
- Creator: B.S. Reynolds Co. Washington, DC
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Patent Office Building, Interior
- Date: 1891
- Creator: Meeker, E. J
- Creator: Meeker, E. J
- SI History Chronology
Telegraph Patent Controversy
- Date: March 16, 1857
