Last year we featured the Montgolfier brothers and the first hot-air balloon flight in June, 1783. This year the view from above the clouds is wonderfully represented by this volume more »
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. . . Everyone likes greaseless, electrically-baked cake do-nuts. This catalog helps the home baker get set-up in what should prove to be a lucrative, tasty, and waist-expanding career. More more »
How better to celebrate Egg Day than to admire these beautiful images of birds' eggs from the Libraries' Joseph F. Cullman 3rd Library of Natural History, from the rare volume, Histoire more »
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 »
The National Museum of American History blog, O Say can You See? recently featured a wonderful post about the reopening of the Libraries' Dibner Library of the History of Science more »
Happy Memorial Day from the Libraries. Image: Iowa Seed Co., 29th Annual Catalogue, 1899, Front Cover. From the digital collection, Seed Catalogs. —Elizabeth Periale
At least that's what we think is being featured on the cover of this wonderful item from the Culinary Historians of Washington (CHoW). The original impetus for this post was more »