The invention of the telephone has a fraught and complicated history, but in spite of legal challenges and controversy, most can comfortably credit Alexander Graham Bell with its creation. On more »
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Louis Figuier, Les nouvelles conquetes de la science [The new conquests of science], 1883-85, Tome 1, plate opposite page 430 – "Fig.163: Fig. 163: Bureau centrale telephonique" (Telephone Exchange). In more »
The Freer-Sackler Library will be temporarily closing to the public at the beginning of November 2009 through March 2010 for a renovation in order to increase space for the Library’s more »
Featured on Fold, Pull, Pop & Turn: New & Notable Pop-ups & Movables from the Cooper-Hewitt Library: The first movable books for children, developed in England in the 1700s, were more »
Libraries' featured exchange partner for September 2009 is the Entomological Society of Iran, which is located in Tehran. The Society was established in 1968 by a group of agricultural studies more »
The Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum Library boasts more than 10,000 postcards in its “hidden” collection. Arranged by subject in card file drawers, they range in date from the turn more »
S O S – Ships in distress shall use the following signal repeated at brief intervals:…—… The 1906 International Wireless Telegraph Convention established the signal as the call for a more »