(Photo by Derek Powazek) George Oates, the project lead for Open Library, a program of the Internet Archive, has been appointed a Research Associate for Smithsonian Institution Libraries. In her more »
Smithsonian Libraries and Archives / Unbound
The Libraries would like to highlight some more new and diverse titles that have come into the National Museum of American History Library.
Each Smithsonian scholar engages in an individual voyage of discovery using the artifacts and specimens of the Smithsonian Institution in conjunction with the Libraries’ written and illustrated record of the past.
The Libraries would like to highlight some recent new and diverse titles that have come into the National Museum of American History Library.
Isaac Newton, beachcomber extraordinaire, was born on this day in 1643. That was 100 years after Copernicus’s death and the year after the death of Galileo.
How better to explain the workings of a locomotive, a steam engine, an automobile motor, or a pumping system than by using a series of flaps that, when opened gradually, reveal the inner workings of these complex machines? Moderne Technik provides a comprehensive view of the workings of the latest technological advances used in transportation and machines for industrial manufacturing of the early 20th century.
142 Years Ago … New York’s Harper’s Weekly published on January 2, 1869 with the salutation, “A Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.”