Description: On June 11, 1927, 25-year-old Charles Lindbergh, and his plane Spirit of St. Louis, arrived back in the United States, and Washington, D.C. threw a party.
Description: Did you know that Joseph Francis invented the first metal life-saving boat? Or that Gail Borden invented the process for creating condensed milk? Neither did I until I heard The World Is Yours episode titled “Unheraled American Inventors,” which originally aired on April 4, 1937.Where most of the episodes I’ve listened to begin with the host walking up to two people while they
Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="283" caption="Captain Harold W. Hancock stands on the Natural History steps dressed in his Smithsonian Security Officer Force uniform, He celebrated his eighth year as captain of Natural History’s Office of Protection Services, Company A in 1992, Richard Strauss, Black and white photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives,
Description: A previously unpublished photograph, from the Science Service "morgue" files in Accession 90-105, shows two Nobel laureate physicists, Anton Lorentz and Albert Einstein, in 1926.
Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="323" caption="From left to right: Herbert G. Deignan, Secretary Alexander Wetmore (seated), Jane Love, Samuel A. Arny, and Herbert Friedmann are looking at a tray of birds from the collection. Wetmore and Friedmann are holding birds from the tray in their hands, 1951, by Charles Eliot Perkins, Color photo, Smithsonian Institution
Description: In paper conservation, it’s not just about the paper. Here I’ll explain the process in using acrylic paint and adhesive to repair the leather bindings of field books.
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