The collection contains an almost complete set of the quarterly newsletter Foresight Background and its successor Foresight Update from 1987 to January, 2004. Also included are five issues of Foresight Briefing. The Foresight Institute of Palo Alto, California, studies transformative technologies.
Scope and Contents:
The collection contains an almost complete set of the quarterly newsletter Foresight Background and its successor Foresight Update from 1987 to January, 2004. Foresight Update is now a weekly newsletter. Also included are five issues of Foresight Briefing, a newsletter containing single, in-depth articles. The newsletters contain essays, reviews of nanotechnology research, student prizes, question-and-answer sets, reference information, in-depth full length articles, and advertisements for nano-related scientific companies and legal services. Miscellaneous mailings from the Foresight Institute to members, such as contribution requests, announcements of upcoming events, and publication offers are included.
Arrangement:
Collection is arranged into two series.
Series 1, Newsletters, 1989-2004
Series 2, Miscellaneous materials, 1986-2002 and undated
Biographical / Historical:
Started by Dr. Eric Drexler in 1986 in Palo Alto, California, the non-profit Foresight Institute's mission is to anticipate and meet the future challenges of advances in technology. The Institute seeks to increase knowledge about advances, and to encourage and enable free and open discussion and study of them. Its primary focus is on "molecular nanotechnology, the coming ability to build materials and products with atomic precision." It was the first organization to educate society about the benefits and risks of nanotechnology. The Institute hosts regular conferences on nanotechnology subjects, and it publishes articles, books, and a quarterly newsletter entitled Foresight Update (formerly Foresight Background). The Institute awards annual prizes in two categories, entitled the Foresight Institute Feynman Award, in honor of physicist Richard Feynman. One award is given for experimental research and the other for theory in advances in nanotechnology.
Provenance:
The collection was donated by Steven F. Lubar, former curator in the National Museum of American History's Division of the History of Technology (now Division of Work and Industry) in 2004.
Restrictions:
Collection is open for research but is stored off-site and special arrangements must be made to work with it. Contact the Archives Center for information at archivescenter@si.edu or 202-633-3270.
Rights:
Collection items available for reproduction, but the Archives Center makes no guarantees concerning copyright restrictions. Other intellectual property rights may apply. Reproduction permission from Archives Center: reproduction fees may apply.
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Collection Citation:
Kathryn D. Sullivan Papers, NASM.2019.0007, National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution.
Jerome and Dorothy Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation. Search this
Container:
Box 3, Video RV 792.4
Type:
Archival materials
Moving Images
Date:
2001 October 1
General:
Total Running Time: 30:19, Camera 1
Opens with a discussion of nanotechnology and shows video footage explaining the construction and properties of fullerenes. Kroto states that the twenty-first century will be the century of nanoscale materials. Shows slides of molecular art-hemoglobin and adenosine triphosphate (ATP).
Question and answer with students:
Did people know they were using bucky balls when they lit a candle?
Was winning the Nobel prize your shining moment?
How can your discovery benefit mankind?
Can superconducting materials be made using carbon fullerenes?
Can society use C60 to make automobiles pollute less?
If C60 are on meteorites, are they on other planets?
Is it better to conduct research independently or collaboratively?
Collection Restrictions:
The collection is open for research.
Collection Rights:
Collection items available for reproduction, but the Archives Center makes no guarantees concerning copyright restrictions. Other intellectual property rights may apply. Archives Center cost-recovery and use fees may apply when requesting reproductions. Signed release forms on file.
Collection Citation:
Harry Kroto Innovative Lives Presentation and Interview, October 1, 2001, Archives Center, National Museum of American History.
Reference copies for audio and moving images materials do not exist. Use of these materials requires special arrangement. Gloves must be worn when handling unprotected photographs and negatives.
Social Security numbers and other personally identifiable information has been rendered unreadable and redacted. Researchers may use the photocopies in the collection. The remainder of the collection has no restrictions.
Collection Rights:
Reproduction restricted due to copyright or trademark. Other intellectual property rights may apply. Archives Center cost-recovery and use fees may apply when requesting reproductions.
Collection Citation:
Bill Nye Papers, 1970-2014, Archives Center, National Museum of American History
purchased by ThermoSpectra Corp. of Waltham, MA in 1997 (see http://www.nanoscience.com/education/chronology.html) and becomes Thermo Microscopes in 1998 ; Veeco Instuments (see http://www.veeco.com/)acquires Thermo Microscopes in 2001 and renames it TM Microscopes. (see http://www.nanoscience.com/education/chronology.html) Search this
Notes content:
Circa 1995 catalog for microscopes from Park Scientific Instruments, then a privately held manufacturer of scanning probe microscopes. Scanning probe microscopy is used in industry and academia to test and measure the topography and other surface properties of materials down to the atomic level. (See http://www.bizjournals.com/boston/stories/1997/01/27/daily9.html). Terms: nanotechnology , scanning force microscope , tunneling , surface imaging , nanotechnology , ambient imaging , software and profiling.
Includes:
Trade catalog
Black and white images
Color images
Physical description:
4 pieces; 1 box
Language:
English
Type of material:
Trade catalogs
Trade literature
Place:
Sunnyvale, California, United States
Date range:
1900s-2000s
Topic (Romaine term):
Biotechnology and biochemical equipment and supplies Search this
Material design : informing architecture by materiality / Thomas Schropfer ; with a foreword by Erwin Viray ; and contributions by James Carpenter [and others]