Today commemorates the first Hot Air Balloon Flight By the Montgolfier brothers in 1783. A truly golden age of ballooning…—Elizabeth Periale Barthélemy Faujas de Saint-Fond, Description des Expériences de la more »
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He haunts physics textbooks. His cat is featured on T-shirts. He won a Nobel Prize. Who is he? A newly digitized manuscript collection can help us find out! Although Austrian more »
Portrait of Samuel Finley Breese Morse Samuel Morse sent the first telegraphic message 165 years ago today. The Libraries has many portraits of Morse in its digital collection, Scientific Identity: more »
May is National Duckling Month.—Elizabeth Periale "Plate 91 – The Pied-bill Dopchick," Mark Catesby, The natural history of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama islands: containing the figures of birds, beasts, more »
We like to think we have many jewels in the Smithsonian Institution Libraries' collections in the figurative sense, but here is a lovely volume bound in precious mother-of-pearl with silver more »
Libraries trade literature, Cord Cabriolet – Open, Cord Automobile Company The application due date for the 2010 Dibner Library Resident Scholar Program and the Baird Society Resident Scholar Program is more »
The Libraries features the Album Mexicano. The portrait in the upper left is famous general Santa Anna.—Elizabeth Periale Plate 15, Album mexicano : retratos de los personages ilustres de la more »