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Washington DC – National Museum of American History: Inventions

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At the top is the Micro Instrumentation and Telemetry Systems Altair 8800, a personal computer with keyboard and monitor, dating from about 1975. The company sold only the basic processor kit. Owners addd keyboards, monitors and other accessories.

On the bottom left is a camera dating from the 1880’s. George Eastman revolutionized photography with the introduction of the Kodak. Owners mailed the camera to Eastman Company to have their pictures developed and printed, and the camera reloaded.

On the bottom center is a radio dating from 1954. American firms Texas Instruments and IDEA devleoped the Regency TR-1, the world’s first commercially available transistor radio. It helped popularize another recent invention–rock and roll music.

On the bottom right is a telegraph key, dating from around 1844. Samuel Morse and Alfred Vail likely used this transmitter at the 1844 official opening of their electric telegraph line. For the first time people could communicate almost instantly over long distances.

The National Museum of American History (NMAH), administered by the Smithsonian Institute, collects, preserves and displays American heritage in the areas of social, political, cultural, scientific and military history. The museum, which first opened in 1964 as the Museum of History and Technology, is located on the National Mall in one of the last structures designed by McKim, Mead & White. It was renamed in 1980, and closed for a 2-year, million renovation by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP from 2006 to 2008.

The Smithsonian Institution, an educational and research institute and associated museum complex, administered and funded by the government of the United States and by funds from its endowment, contributions, and profits from its shops and its magazines, was established in 1846. Although concentrated in Washington DC, its collection of over 136 million items is spread through 19 museums, a zoo, and nine research centers from New York to Panama.

Image from page 53 of “Ridpath’s Universal history : an account of the origin, primitive condition and ethnic development of the great races of mankind, and of the principal events in the evolution and progress of the civilized life among men and nations,

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Title: Ridpath’s Universal history : an account of the origin, primitive condition and ethnic development of the great races of mankind, and of the principal events in the evolution and progress of the civilized life among men and nations, from recent and authentic sources with a preliminary inquiry on the time, place and manner of the beginning
Year: 1897 (1890s)
Authors: Ridpath, John Clark, 1840-1900
Subjects: World history
Publisher: Cincinnati : Jones
Contributing Library: University of Pittsburgh Library System
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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literated. We have spoken above of thetendency of polyandry to producean intense clannishness, with theaccompanying disso- 1 . Life in the vil- lution of the ties of lage and the ,1 j. ., wigwam. the family proper.This was seen in the manners ofthe Indian warriors. With themeverything depended on thestrength and solidarity of thetribe, and very little on the integ-rity of the family. The social lifeof the Indians was, therefore,tribal rather than domestic. TheIndian village was always a centerof interest and of excitement, butthe wigwam itself and alone wasas solitary as the pine tree thatsheltered it. The warriors return-ing from the chase or from battlemisfht well look to the village as acenter of interest and tribal amusements,but the brave would hardly look to hisown wigwam, with its exhausted squawand sick papooses, as a place to be de-sired. The tie between the Indian and his ownhome was thus rendered indifferent and of Copyrighted by The Jones Brothers Pub Co. I8J/3. Plate XII.

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CULTURE OF AMERICAN MONGOLOIDS. Indian Weapons and Designs. NORTHERN ABORIGINES.—WRITING AND LANGUAGE. 475 no effect. In the village there was some hilarity. There were games and sports. There were the running contest and many games of chance. There Addiction to village sports especially was the dance. and games. r^, -, -. Ihe dance was alwaystribal, never domestic. Music was atribal amusement, and even racing onfoot or with ponies was a tribal sport.If the Indian competed with his fellowfor the prize in marksmanship, it was atribal rather than a neighborly contest.All of these consequences flowed, ifAve mistake not, out of the peculiar char-acter of marriage and family organiza-tion. vStill another result would appearto be the low educational ambition amongour aboriginal nations. Education—thedesire to educate—flows mostly from thestrong affection of the father for his ownchild. This tends to a desire to see the child promoted to a better estate thanthat of his father. It leads

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Image from page 171 of “Catalogue of the fresh-water fishes of Africa in the British museum (Natural history) ..” (1909)

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Title: Catalogue of the fresh-water fishes of Africa in the British museum (Natural history) ..
Year: 1909 (1900s)
Authors: British Museum (Natural History). Dept. of Zoology Boulenger, George Albert, 1858-1937
Subjects: Fishes Freshwater animals
Publisher: London, Printed by order of the Trustees [by Taylor and Francis]
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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he lower ray adnate to a fleshy process. Vertebrae 16-J-14. A single species. 1. PANTODON BUCHHOLZI. Peters, t. c. p. 196, pi. — ; Bouleng. 1. c. ; Popta, Notes Leyd. Mus, xxiii. 1902,p. 111. Depth of body -t^ to of times in total length, length of head 4 to 4^times. Snout shorter than eye, the diameter of which is 3| times inlength of head, If times in interocnlar width; mouth very oblique,directed upwards, extending beyond posterior border of eye. Dorsal 6, 152 PANTODONTID.E. above last rays of anal, 3^ to 4 times as distant from head as from caudal;third ray nearly as long as head. Anal 9-14, sometimes divided intotwo by a notch, posterior rays shortest. Pectoral f to -^ total length,formed of 8 rays, first longest and strong. First 4 ventral rays more orless produced, sometimes reaching caudal. Caudal pointed, median raysnearly twice as long as head. Caudal peduncle as long as deep. 28-30 scales in lateral line, -£ in transverse series, 22 or 23 between occiput Fig. 122. i^~^-.

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Pantodoti huchholzi.Upper Congo. and dorsal. Olive above, jellow or silvery beneath, more or less tingedwith carmine; a few blackish dots on the body; sometimes dark bandsacross the back ; fins pink, with small, round, purplish-brown spots,forming cross-bands on the pectorals, which are dark purple on theinner side and towards the end ; dark bars across the lower jaw. Total length 95 millim. Niger, Old Calabar, Cameroon, Congo.—Type in Berlin Museum. 1. Ad. 2. Ad. 3-4. Ad. & hgr. 5. Skel. 6. One of the types. 7-8. Hgr.9-10. Ad. 11. Ad. Brass, Lower Niger.Assay, „ Old Calabar. 55 Victoria R., Cameroon. Cameroon.Monsembe, Upper Congo.Banzyville, Ubanghi. N. Burrows, Esq. (P.).J. S. Budgett, Esq. (P.).D. G. Rutherford, Esq. (C). 55 Dr. Buchholz (C);Berlin Museum (E.). Rev. J. H. Weeks (P.). (^apt. Royaux (C). CLUPEA. 153 Fam. C. CLUPEID^. Margin of the upper jaw formed by the prsemaxillaries and themaxillaries ; supraoccipital bone in contact with the frontals ; opercularbones

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