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			Engineering, Industry, and Invention


	Science & Technology

A:

-	Aeronautics

-	Agriculture

-	Aircraft

-	Animals

-	Anthropology & Archaeology

-	Astronomy

B:

-	Biodiversity

-	Birds

-	Botany

-	Bugs

-	Butterflies

C:

-	Cars
-	Chemistry


-	Clocks & Watches

-	Computers

-	Conservation (of environment)

-	Conservation (of items)

D-E:

-	Diamonds

-	Dinosaurs

-	Ecology

-	Electricity

-	Engineering


F:

-	Fishes

-	Fossils

G-H:

-	Gems

-	Geology

-	Global Climate Change
-	Health & Medicine

-	Horticulture

-	Human Evolution

I-J:

-	Industry

-	Information Technology

-	Insects

-	Inventors & Innovation

K-M:


-	Mammals

-	Marine Animals

-	Mathematics
-	Medical Sciences

-	Mineral Sciences

-	Mollusks

O-P:


-	Oceans

-	Paleobiology

-	Pandas

-	Planets

-	Printing Technology


Q-R:

-	Railroads

S-Z:

-	Ships

-	Space History

-	Telephones

-	Transportation

-	Volcanoes

-	Zoology


	General

American History Museum
Collections related to the history of science and technology in America and how this history has shaped the American identity

Energy and Power Collections

Engineering, Building, and Architecture Collections

Industry & Manufacturing Collections


	General

Make the Dirt Fly
Photographs from the building of the Panama Canal

Doodles, Drafts and Designs: Industrial Drawings from the Smithsonian
Smithsonian Libraries exhibition

Explore the Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum Collections
Highlights include industrial design drawings by Henry Dreyfuss, Donald Deskey, and more


	Energy and Power

Edison After Forty: A Challenge of Success
Thomas Edison from age 41 to 84

Lighting a Revolution
Explore the process of invention and compare Thomas Edison's well-known work on the electric light bulb a century ago with several modern lighting inventions

Powering a Generation of Change
Documenting the story of electrical power restructuring in North America as it unfolds over the coming years

Three Mile Island: The Inside Story
Web site providing more information about the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant


	Invention and Innovation

Bill Gates: The Imaginable Future
Bill Gates shares his vision of the computer revolution and how new technologies will affect our lives (60min audio)

Computer History Interviews
Interviews with the leaders in the development of modern communications and computers

Don Wetzel
Interview with co-patentee of the Automatic Teller Machine

Impacto, Influencio, Cambio: Science, Technology, and Invention in Latin America and the Southwestern United States
Highlights the lives and accomplishments of Latin American inventors, aviators and astronauts

Innovative Lives
Meet the inventors who have participated in the Lemelson Center's "Innovative Lives" program for middle school students

Invention at Play
Explore the playful side of invention and the inventive side of play in this highly interactive traveling exhibit

Lighting the Way: Collecting History with the World Wide Web
An experiment in participatory history focusing on lighting

Marc Andreesen
Oral History Interview with the Founder and Chief Operating Officer, Netscape Communications

Ramelli's Machines
Original Drawings for Agostino Ramelli's Le diverse et artificiose machine (Paris, 1588)

Sewing Machines: Historical Trade Literature in the Smithsonian Institution Collection
Materials published by and about sewing machine companies

Steve Jobs
Founder of Apple and NEXT

The Quartz Watch
Discover the fascinating stories behind the invention of the quartz watch

Theatrum Instrumentorum et Machinarum
By Jacques Besson (1578). Scan of the original work on Rennaissance Machines

Tim Berners-Lee: Weaving the Web
Tim Berners-Lee tells the story of his fabulous and revolutionary creation, the World Wide Web (55min audio)

Underwater Web: Cabling the Seas
Explores how the world suddenly became smaller when the telegraph linked the continents


	Museums

American History Museum
History of science, technology, society and culture in America

Air and Space Museum
History, science, and technology of aviation and space flight


	Research

Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation
Fosters inventive creativity in young people and appreciation for the role of invention in U.S. history

Smithsonian Institution Libraries
As both scholarly resource and general information service, the Libraries offers a galaxy of resources

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