58 days ago by Megan Gambino

Curator Carlene Stephens, on left, and collections manager Shari Stout look at a glass disc containing a sound recording from the 1880s. Photo by Rich Strauss, courtesy of the National Museum of American History One March morning in 2008, Carlene Stephens, curator of the National Museum of American ...

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58 days ago by Megan Gambino

Curator Carlene Stephens, on left, and collections manager Shari Stout look at a glass disc containing a sound recording from the 1880s. Photo by Rich Strauss, courtesy of the National Museum of American History One March morning in 2008, Carlene Stephens, curator of the National Museum of American ...

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62 days ago by Joseph Stromberg

An early working version of Hollerith's tabulating machine. Photo courtesy of the American History Museum In 1890, the U.S. Government had a problem. With the nation’s population growing rapidly, hand-counting the results was proving impractical—the 1880 census took a full 7 years to tabulate. Polic ...

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62 days ago by Joseph Stromberg

An early working version of Hollerith's tabulating machine. Photo courtesy of the American History Museum In 1890, the U.S. Government had a problem. With the nation’s population growing rapidly, hand-counting the results was proving impractical—the 1880 census took a full 7 years to tabulate. Polic ...

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79 days ago by Megan Gambino

Courtesy of the National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution. Plymouth Rock, located on the shore of Plymouth Harbor in Massachusetts, is reputed to be the very spot where William Bradford, an early governor of Plymouth colony, and other Pilgrims first set foot on land in 1620. Yet, ...

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79 days ago by Megan Gambino

Courtesy of the National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution. Plymouth Rock, located on the shore of Plymouth Harbor in Massachusetts, is reputed to be the very spot where William Bradford, an early governor of Plymouth colony, and other Pilgrims first set foot on land in 1620. Yet, ...

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81 days ago by Joseph Stromberg

Get a hands-on introduction to forensics as part of the "Written in Bone" exhibition. Photo courtesy Natural History Museum, Monday, November 21 For All the World To See Join docents for a guided tour of “ For All the World To See,” the exhibition currently featured in the African American History a ...

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81 days ago by Joseph Stromberg

Get a hands-on introduction to forensics as part of the "Written in Bone" exhibition. Photo courtesy Natural History Museum, Monday, November 21 For All the World To See Join docents for a guided tour of “ For All the World To See,” the exhibition currently featured in the African American History a ...

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84 days ago by Joseph Stromberg

Fleming's double-sided watch showed the "Cosmic Time." Photo courtesy of the American History Museum. In 1876, Canadian railway engineer Sandford Fleming missed a train. Fleming had assumed the time printed in the railroad’s time booklet was in the afternoon, rather than in the morning, and found hi ...

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84 days ago by Elyse

Last weekend Jill and I hit up the Smithsonian’s American History Museum. While some of the exhibits we wanted to see, like the First Ladies’ Dresses were closed, we still had fun. Below are some of the things we saw! Dorothy's Shoes! Simba’s Mask Pretty Guitar

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