The radio was patented by Guglielmo Marconi n 1896. But the "invention" of radio has its roots in the experiments of many, including Nikola Tesla, Thomas Edison and Michael Faraday, just more »
Category: History and Culture
Happy Memorial Day from the Libraries. Image: Iowa Seed Co., 29th Annual Catalogue, 1899, Front Cover. From the digital collection, Seed Catalogs. —Elizabeth Periale
Albert Francis Zahm, The Smithsonian Report for 1914, 1915, Langley Aeroplane (Built 1898-1903) Ready for Launching at Hammondsport, N.Y., May 28, 1914. This image, from The first man-carrying aeroplane capable of sustained more »
On this day in 1990, the Hubble Space Telescope started sending images from space. The first image was of a cluster 1,350 light years from Earth, NGC 3532, in the more »
Ever wonder what a wedding in the past might have been like? Art and Decoration in Crepe and Tissue Paper by Dennison Manufacturing Co. gives us a view into 1917 more »
The annual Kentucky Derby is now held on the first Saturday in May; however, the first running of the Derby was on Monday, May 17, 1875. Today, we mark the more »
The idea of state flowers first occurred in 1893 at the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, where women's groups had decorated their state exhibits with representative flowers. During the fair, more »