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Smithsonian Contributions to History and Technology: Recent submissions
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(2020)Writers in the field of postal history have incredibly diverse interests and approaches. As a result, the postal history symposia have been organized around themes. The three themes represented in papers here are mail and ...
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(1969)The harpsichord and the clavichord represent the two most important types of stringed keyboard instruments used from the 15th through the 18th centuries. By the 19th century, the piano had become the most important domestic ...
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(2002)From a historical perspective, the radiosonde is one of the more significant technological innovations of the twentheth century, not only because its widespread use greatly enhanced the accuracy of weather forecasting, but ...
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(1997)This study surveys the history of the Smithsonian Institution's ethnographic Judaica collection from its beginnings in the late nineteenth century to the present. It investigates how the particular cultural perspective of ...
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(1991)This study of Old Russian metallic “traveling” icons features eight distinct discussions: Russia, 1600-1900 (a general history); Russian Orthodox theology and icons, 1600-1900; iconographic form and content in the Kunz ...
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(1988)The National Museum of American History recently acquired a small elevator from a 19th century residence in Boston's Back Bay. The acquisition was one of unusual historical significance, for the elevator's means of ...
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(1988)To obtain a patent in the nineteenth century, an inventor had to submit a written specification, a drawing, and a model to the United States Patent Office. This catalog is concerned with the textile patent models in the ...
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(1987)Geomagnetism (also known as terrestrial magnetism) is the scientific study of the earth from the point of view of its magnetic properties. The alignment of a natural or artificial magnet in a north-south direction is only ...
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(1986)Published as part of <I>Visitatio Organorum</I>, a tribute to Dr. Maarten Vente, <I>The Organs of Mexico City Cathedral</I> gives a description of the two cathedral organs based on information gathered during their restoration ...
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