Here are some of the newest additions to the National Museum of American History Library.
Swallow: foreign bodies, their ingestion, inspiration, and the curious doctor who extracted them. Mary Cappello. New Press: Distributed by Perseus Distribution, 2011.
Jackson, Chevalier, 1865-1958.
QP311 .C37 2011
American offshore whaling voyages: 1667 to 1927. Judith N. Lund … [et. al.]. Old Dartmouth Historical Society – New Bedford Whaling Museum, c2010. V. 1. Voyages by vessel — v. 2. Voyages by master.
Subject:
Whaling — United States — History.
SH383.2 .A454 2010 NMAH TRANSPORTATION MARITIME
Brilliant: the evolution of artificial light. Jane Brox. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2010.
Summary:
Documents the role of light in history, tracing how the development of specific innovations had a pivotal influence on social and cultural evolution.
Subject:
TH7900 .B68 2010
Powering the dream: the history and promise of green technology. Alexis Madrigal.
Contents:
1: The dream of a more perfect power — Profit, salvation — The first green-technology futurist — The utopia commercial — Prescribing for the globe itself — 2: What was — Steam-powered America — The wind and the West — The parable of Petrolia — Wave motors and airplanes — Compressed air and electricity — 3: What might have been — The National Electric Transportation System that almost was — Solar hot water, day and night — The solar home of the 1950s — The Solar Energy Research Institute — The meaning of Luz — How to burn a biological library — 4: Lessons from the Great Energy Rethink — What happens when an energy system breaks — Thermodynamics — Transcendentalism — Tools — Technology — 5: Innovation and the future — Google's RE < C challenge — The first megawatt and failing smart — What green tech can learn from nuclear power's rise and fall — The 5-cent turbine and the siren call of the breakthrough — Energy storage and the return of compressed air — "Throw software at the problem" — Rehumanizing environmentalism.
Subject:
Renewable energy sources — Research — United States — History — Popular works.
Renewable energy sources — Forecasting — Popular works.
Sustainable engineering — United States — History — Popular works.
Sustainable engineering — Forecasting — Popular works.
TJ808.7.U6 M33 2011
The quotable Edison, edited by Michele Wehrwein Albion; foreword by Paul Israel. University Press of Florida, c2011.
Subject:
Edison, Thomas A. (Thomas Alva), 1847-1931 — Quotations.
TK140.E3 A25 2011
Eadweard Muybridge, the human and animal locomotion photographs. Hans Christian Adam, (ed.). Taschen, c2010.
Subject:
Muybridge, Eadweard, 1830-1904.
Locomotion — Research — History.
Photographers — Great Britain — Biography.
Animal locomotion — Pictorial works.
Human locomotion — Pictorial works.
TR840 .M894 2010 NMAH PHOTOGRAPHIC HISTORY
Dior: a new look, a new enterprise (1947-57). Alexandra Palmer. Victoria & Albert Museum, 2009.
Stunning, stylish and sumptuously illustrated – a thoroughly absorbing study of Diors' influential life and career.
Subject:
Fashion design — History — 20th century.
TT505.D5 P35 2009 NMAH COSTUME
—Chris Cottrill
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