Museums Smithsonian

National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC Aerodynamics Aircraft... 

Patricia Jacobberger Jellison, Geologist, National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC Patricia Lauber, Author, Weston, CT John Layman, Professor of Education and Physics, University of Maryland, College Park, MD Sally Love, Museum Specialist, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC... 

Figure 1 The Wright Brothers 1903 flyer. First flight (SI 2002-16646). (Copyright of National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution.)...

National Museum of American Histoi y Smithsonian Institution... 

Wagner, W. L., Herbst, D. R. and Sohmer, S. H. 1990,1999. Manual of the Flowering Plants of Hawai i. Vols. 1 and 2. University of Hawai i Press and Bishop Museum Press, Honolulu. -------and Funk, V. A. (eds.) 1995. Hawaiian Biogeography Evolution on a Hot Spot Archipelago., Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, D.C. 

Want to see a soap mummy The Miitter Museum in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, has one. She is called the "Soap Woman." A man who was buried next to her and who also turned into a soap mummy is sometimes displayed in the Smithsonian Institute in Washington, D.C., too. Not surprisingly, he is called the "Soap Man."... 

Smithsonian FAQ s Hope Diamond. National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, http //www.si.edu/resource/faq/nmnh/hope.htm... 

Figure 4.3.1 The Hope Diamond is the world s largest blue diamond and is on display in the National Museum of Natural History at the Smithsonian Institution. Photo reprinted with permission. 

Figure 1. An iron bloom in the collection of the Department of Naval History, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution (Cat. No. 49459). The bloom weighs approximately 17 lb, after sampling, and is approximately 18 cm in diameter on the base as shown. (Smithsonian Institution negative No.

Museums such as the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C., and many other museums across the globe, display a variety of artifacts from past cultures. Tools, weapons, utensils, fabrics, and bones provide a rich visual description of how people used to live and die. By visiting a museum, a person can take a step back in time and get a sense of the problems faced by people who came before, as well as the tools and technology by which these people attempted to solve these problems. 

The operation of the scanning electron microscope was in the hands of Walter R. Brown of the National Museum of Natural History. R. M. Organ and Harold Westley of the Smithsonian Institution supplied the spectrographic results for the ink ignition tests. H. P. Stern and T. Lawton (Director and Assistant Director of the Freer Gallery of Art) are thanked for advice on the selection of paintings, for permission to sample them, and for general discussions on the history of Chinese ink. 

Ore samples were provided by the Smithsonian Institution National Museum of Natural History, Department of Mineral Science Division of Mineralogy, and Breakwater Resources Limited. Dr. N. Norman, Department of Classics, University of Georgia provided the curse tablet samples. 

The Baltimore Museum of Art hosts the Cone collection including many works by Matisse. Bronze sculptures by Matisse were cast using different methods (lost wax and sand cast) and in different foundries. Ann Boulton of the Baltimore Museum of Art initiated a project aimed at determining whether or not different compositions of Matisse bronze sculptures could be correlated to different manufacturing techniques or locations. The project started while the author was a post-doctoral fellow at the Smithsonian Center for Materials Research and Education, now Museum Conservation Institute, and involved other analytical techniques (12). The results presented here were obtained at the Field Museum of Natural History. 

Fig. 1.4. Bernard Shoor (left) and Leonard Herzenberg at Stanford University with one of the original Becton Dickinson flow cytometers as it was packed for shipment to the Smithsonian Museum. Photograph by Edward Souza, courtesy of the Stanford News Service.

Kendall, E.C. (1959). John Deere s Steel Plow. Paper No. 2. Contributions from Museum of History and Technology. United States National Museum Bulletin No. 218. Washington, DC Smithsonian Institution, pp. 15-25. 

Recently I took a friend through the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History. He read the labels as we approached, one splendid display after another, and then I let him look at them through my virtual magnifiers and, when we left, things were so different, it seemed the venerable Smithsonian had shrugged. 

This investigation was supported in part by the National Museum Act which was administered by the Smithsonian Institution. He are grateful for this assistance. 

The authors wish to thank Dr. Terry Reedy for the statistical analysis Max Salzman, who arranged for the sample of historic cream-colored silk from the Smithsonian Institution and, John Twilley, who supplied the sample of historic blue silk from the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. 

Aspirin is inducted into the Natural Museum of American History at the Smithsonian Institute for its century of reducing pains, aches, fevers, and inflammation, and for saving the lives of thousands of heart attack patients. 

During the field trip to the Smithsonian Institute, the museum s displays that were like a time travel machine, allowing us all the chance to glimpse the past. 

Graeme Wistow (41), Section on Molecular Structure and Function, National Eye Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892 Elizabeth A. Zimmer (39), Laboratory of Molecular Systematics, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. 20560... 

This investigation was supported in part by the National Museum Act, which is administered by the Smithsonian Institution. The authors are grateful for this assistance. The authors also wish to express their gratitude to Mr. Win Chuan Chang for carrying out the experiments involving cotton fibrils. 

In this paper we have drawn on analyses carried out as part of the Maya Jade and Ceramics Project, a collaborative program of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and Brookhaven National Laboratory during 1977-1983. Work at Brookhaven was conducted under the auspices of the U.S. Department of Energy. Exploration into the interface between archaeological objectives, compositional variation and statistical modeling is an endeavor of the Smithsonian Archaeometric Research Collections and Records (SARCAR) facility located at the Smithsonian s Conservation Analytical Laboratory. Neffs participation in this research is made possible by a Smithsonian Institution Materials Analysis Postdoctoral Fellowship. 

HISTORICAL FABRICS. Fabrics and garments analyzed were 11 samples from the study collection of the Division of Textiles, National Museum of American History of the Smithsonian Institution, and one sample from the Museo Poldi-Pezzoli. Many of the garments were composites consisting of several layers and decorative elements. The fabrics examined were identified as follows ... 

Metropolitan Museum of Art, 419 Miami University, 265 National Center for Health Statistic, 465 New York University, 265 North Carolina State University, 429 Northern Arizona University, 125 Northwestern University, 381 Ohio State University, 451, 465 SLOWPOKE Reactor Facility, 21,113, 337 Smithsonian Institution, 57, 87,419 Texas A M University, 145 University of Auckland, 21 University of California at Berkeley, 381, 465... 

I would like to thank Nancy Norton and Lori Houg-Dobeck for their help in the experimental part of this study Daniel F. Caulfield, Forest Product Laboratory, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Madison, Wisconsin, for his assistance in the X-ray diffractive analysis and John Stucker, R. R. Street Company, Oakbrook, Illinois, who facilitated the dry-cleaning field study. Appreciation is also extended to the Milwaukee Public Museum which provided the Tiahuanaco tapestry. Financial support for this study was obtained from the Graduate School of the University of Wisconsin—Madison and the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. 

We wish to acknowledge the help of R. V. Kuruppillai in performing some of the experiments, the enlightening conversations with B. F. Smith, and the generous financial support of the National Museum Act, administered by the Smithsonian Institution. 

Figure 14.3 The cell used by Purcell s group in their experiment. This cell is now at the Smithsonian Museum.

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