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    1. Interior view of two visitors looking at a skeleton with prosthetics behind glass.

      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!

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    3. Two-page spread of a booklet containing broadcast information for “The World Is Yours” and a history of Thomas Davenport. A black and white drawing of a track with a motor appears at the top middle of the right-hand page.

      The World Is Yours: Unheralded American Inventors

      • Date: November 17, 2020
      • Creator: Kira M. Sobers
      • 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

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    5. Science Service director Watson Davis with General Motors' Thomas Midgley Jr, 1936.

      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

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    7. Full Steam Ahead: The Motorcycle’s Bicycle Beginnings

      • Date: May 24, 2016
      • Creator: Hillary Brady
      • Description: A look at the steam tricycle and other bicycle innovations during the turn of the 20th century.

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    9. Untitled, by Thomas Smillie, 1900, National Museum of American History, Behring Center, Division of Medicine and Science. Photograph taken as part of expedition to view the solar eclipse of May 1900 in Wadesboro, North Carolina. Note the elaborate tent that housed the Smithsonian’s large horizontal telescope.

      Smillie and the 1900 Eclipse

      • Date: June 9, 2009
      • Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.

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    11. The World Is Yours: Glass

      • Date: September 29, 2020
      • Description: Take a listen to clips from the episode of The World Is Yours titled Glass.

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