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A curator goes to the movies: The stuff of "Hidden Figures"
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National Museum of American History
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Published Date:
Tue, 07 Feb 2017 17:11:05 +0000
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American History
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Power from the people: Rural Electrification brought more than lights
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Published Date:
Thu, 11 Feb 2016 23:35:48 +0000
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American History
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The idea factory : Bell Labs and the great age of American innovation / Jon Gertner
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Gertner, Jon
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Bell Telephone Laboratories History
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422 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., ports. ; 25 cm
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Books
Place:
United States
Date:
2012
20th century
Topic:
Telecommunication--History
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Technological innovations--History
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Creative ability--History
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Alex Steinweiss : the inventor of the modern album cover / by Kevin Reagan with an introduction by Steven Heller
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Inventor of the modern album cover
Steinweiss
Author:
Reagan, Kevin
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Steinweiss, Alex 1917-2011
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Heller, Steven
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Steinweiss, Alex 1917-2011
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416 p. : chiefly col. ill. ; 29 x 35 cm
Type:
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Place:
United States
Date:
2011
20th century
Topic:
Sound recordings--Album covers
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Graphic arts--History
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Mr. Liquid Crystal : the untold story of how James L. Fergason invented the liquid crystal display & helped create the digital world / Terri Fergason Neal and Marian Pierce
Author:
Neal, Terri Fergason
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Pierce, Marian
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Subject:
Fergason, James L. 1934-2008
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Physical description:
xvi, 332 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
Type:
Books
History
Place:
United States
Date:
2016
20th century
Topic:
Liquid crystal displays--History
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Inventors--History
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The Bay Area school : Californian artists from the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s / Thomas Williams
Author:
Williams, Thomas (Thomas Morgan)
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240 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 30 cm
Type:
Books
Place:
California
San Francisco Bay Area
Date:
2013
20th century
Topic:
Abstract expressionism
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Figurative art
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Art, American
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American eclipse : a nation's epic race to catch the shadow of the moon and win the glory of the world / David Baron
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Baron, David 1964-
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Watson, James C (James Craig) 1838-1880
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Mitchell, Maria 1818-1889
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Edison, Thomas A (Thomas Alva) 1847-1931
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xii, 330 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 25 cm
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Books
Biographies
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Place:
United States
Date:
2017
19th century
20th century
1865-1918
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Science--History
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Eclipses--History
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Astronomy--History
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Civilization
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Rethinking modern prostheses in Anglo-American commodity cultures, 1820-1939 / edited by Claire L. Jones
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Jones, Claire (Museum director)
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xiii, 197 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
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Books
History
Place:
Great Britain
United States
Date:
2017
19th century
20th century
Topic:
Prosthesis--History
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Prosthesis industry--History
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The vagabonds the story of Henry Ford and Thomas Edison's ten-year road trip Jeff Guinn
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Guinn, Jeff
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Ford, Henry 1863-1947 Travel
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Physical description:
306 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates illustrations 23 cm
Type:
Biography
Biographies
History
Place:
United States
Date:
2019
20th century
Topic:
Automobile engineers
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Businessmen
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Inventors
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Automobile travel--History
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Vacations--History
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TRANSPORTATION--General
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Automobile travel
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Travel
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Vacations
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Description and travel
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Description
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Alexander Calder : radical inventor / edited by Elizabeth Hutton Turner and Anne Grace
Author:
Turner, Elizabeth Hutton 1952-
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Grace, Anne 1966-
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Host institution:
Montreal Museum of Fine Arts
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National Gallery of Victoria
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Subject:
Calder, Alexander 1898-1976
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Calder, Alexander 1898-1976 Criticism and interpretation
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Physical description:
239 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), portraits, facsimiles ; 28 cm
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Place:
United States
Date:
2018
20th century
Topic:
Sculpture, American
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Sculptors
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Call number:
N40.1.C14 M714 2018
NB237.C28 A4 2018
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A people's history of computing in the United States / Joy Lisi Rankin
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Rankin, Joy Lisi 1976-
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325 pages ; 25 cm
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History
Place:
United States
Date:
2018
20th century
Topic:
Computer systems--History
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Computer networks--History
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Information commons--History
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Buffalo Bill on the silver screen : the films of William F. Cody / Sandra K. Sagala
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Sagala, Sandra K
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Buffalo Bill 1846-1917
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Buffalo Bill 1846-1917 In motion pictures
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xvi, 218 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Type:
Biography
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Place:
West (U.S.)
United States
Date:
2013
20th century
Topic:
Pioneers
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Documentary films--History and criticism
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A brotherhood of spies : the U-2 and the CIA's secret war / Monte Reel
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Reel, Monte
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Land, Edwin H. 1909-1991
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Johnson, Clarence L. 1910-1990
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Bissell, Richard M (Richard Mervin) 1909-1994
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Powers, Francis Gary 1929-1977
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United States Central Intelligence Agency History
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Physical description:
342 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Type:
Biography
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Place:
United States
Date:
2018
20th century
Topic:
Intelligence service--History
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U-2 (Reconnaissance aircraft)
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U-2 Incident, 1960
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Lucean Arthur Headen the making of a black inventor and entrepreneur Jill D. Snider
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Snider, Jill D
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1 online resource
Type:
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Place:
United States
Great Britain
Date:
2020
20th century
Topic:
African American inventors
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African American automobile industry workers
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African Americans--History
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY--Cultural Heritage
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African Americans
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Call number:
TL140.H425 S65 2020 (Internet)
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Wright brothers, wrong story : how Wilbur Wright solved the problem of manned flight / William Hazelgrove
Author:
Hazelgrove, William Elliott 1959-
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Wright, Orville 1871-1948
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Wright, Wilbur 1867-1912
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Haskell, Katharine Wright 1874-1929
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Physical description:
320 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Type:
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Place:
United States
Date:
2018
20th century
Topic:
Aeronautics--History
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