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  1. Design + Archives = National Museum of History and Technology

    • Date: May 29, 2014
    • Creator: Mitch Toda
    • Description: A peek at an architectural model of the National Museum of American History from the Archives collections.

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    Science Service, Up Close: Technology and Political Conventions

    • Date: July 19, 2016
    • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
    • Description: In a Presidential election year, political news coverage can sometimes seem almost too instantaneous and continuous. Thanks to smartphones with cameras and microphones, journalists and citizens can relay images and sound from almost anywhere inside campaign activities. There was a time, however, when live broadcasting from political conventions and rallies was novel.Starting

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    Technology Throwback Thursday: Snail Mail and Word Processors

    • Date: July 10, 2014
    • Creator: Jennifer Wright
    • Description: A brief look at the evolution of public inquiries at the Smithsonian.

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    Wonderful Women Wednesday: Dr. Jane Walsh

    • Date: July 4, 2018
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: Curator Emeritus Dr. Jane Walsh, Smithsonian's National Anthropological Archives, developed a specialty in pre-Columbian lapidary technology to better understand the technological advancements of ancient cultures. #Groundbreaker

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    Sneak Peek 12/31/2018

    • Date: December 31, 2018
    • Creator: Marguerite Roby
    • Description: Opening of "Music Machines - American Style" exhibition at National Museum of History and Technology, OPA-1737-06.

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    Giving New Life to Old Media

    • Date: May 19, 2022
    • Creator: Kira M. Sobers
    • Description: Advances in technology have helped to bring new life to media that is unplayable via traditional means.

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    Science Service, Up Close: White House Science Advisors, from Roosevelt to Nixon

    • Date: May 11, 2017
    • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
    • Description: May 11 is the anniversary of establishment of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP). That 1976 legislation further ratified the influence of scientists on national policy, positioning them to provide ready advice to the President.

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    Architect Victor Lundy at the Smithsonian

    • Date: February 1, 2013
    • Description: As the architect Victor Lundy turns 90, we look back at the redwood shade structures he designed in the mid-1960s for the terrace of the new Museum of History and Technology (today the National Museum of American History).

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  17. Sneak Peek 8/27/2018

    • Date: August 27, 2018
    • Creator: Marguerite Roby
    • Description: "Information Age: People, Information and Technology" exhibition at National Museum of American History, October 1990, by Rick Vargas, SIA Acc. 11-009, 90-14532-03A.

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    Neither Snow nor Rain: a West Virginia Post Office in the Smithsonian

    • Date: September 13, 2016
    • Creator: Patrick Milhoan
    • Description: [view:sia_slideshow==71908]By the late 1960s, curators at the National Museum of History and Technology (NMHT), now the National Museum of American History, were focusing on how to present aspects of the American experience to visitors of the museum in different ways. Instead of using "sterile techniques which have too frequently given visitors the false impression that all

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  21. Link Love: 9/4/2020

    • Date: September 4, 2020
    • Description: Link Love: a weekly post with links to interesting videos and stories about archival issues, technology and culture, and Washington D.C. and American history.

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    Wonderful Women Wednesday: Audrey B. Davis

    • Date: November 7, 2018
    • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
    • Description: Dr. Audrey B. Davis, Curator of Medical Sciences, National Museum of American History, 1967-1993, led the Smithsonian Institution Women's Council and authored Medicine and Its Technology among other works. #Groundbreaker

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