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 »
Smithsonian Libraries and Archives / Unbound
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 »
The University of Illinois' Graduate School of Library and Information Science held its 3rd annual Summer Institute on Data Curation. This year's focus was on earth and environmental sciences data. 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 »
Just under the wire, the Libraries does tribute to National Duckling Month with this wonderful image from its digital collection, Ornithologie, by François-Nicolas Martinet. François-Nicolas Martinet, Ornithologie [Histoire des Oiseaux Peints more »
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 »