Website Records
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Creators:
Lemelson Center
Dates:
2010
Collection ID:
Accession 10-163
Repository:
Smithsonian Institution Archives

This accession consists of the Lemelson Center website as it existed on July 16, 2010. The Lemelson Center was founded in 1995 at the National Museum of American History. Its mission is to document, interpret, and disseminate information about invention and innovation; to encourage inventive creativity in young people; and to foster an appreci...

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Digitized Content Ann Moore Innovative Lives Presentation
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Creators:
Jerome and Dorothy Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation.
Berger, Sondra
Moore, Ann
Moore, Mike
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Dates:
1999-10
Size:
2 Cubic feet (5 boxes , BetaCamSP, 1/2 inch VHS videotapes)
Collection ID:
NMAH.AC.0706
Repository:
Archives Center, National Museum of American History

Ann Moore is the inventor of the Snugli baby carrier and Air Lift oxygen carrier. The collection contains original, master, and reference videos, audiocassette recordings, and transcripts documenting Moore's inventive career.

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Program/Project Records
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Creators:
Lemelson Center
Dates:
1994-2017
Size:
2.19 cu. ft. (1 record storage box) (1 document box) (1 16x20 box)
Collection ID:
Accession 19-100
Repository:
Smithsonian Institution Archives

This accession consists of project and program records created and maintained by the Lemelson Center. The materials document the development and execution of conferences, workshops, lectures, educational programs, special events, seminars, talks, and symposia. Programs documented include "Innovative Lives" and the "Inventing for the Environmen...

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Digitized Content Inventors Oral History Collection
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Creators:
Bedi, Joyce
Daemmrich, Arthur
Jerome and Dorothy Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation.
Klotz, Sharon
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Dates:
2020-2021
Size:
855.63 Gigabytes (Interviews include .mp4, video/.mxf and .wav files. )
Collection ID:
NMAH.AC.1504
Repository:
Archives Center, National Museum of American History

Born digital video oral history interviews and transcripts with inventors documenting a variety of subjects and disciplines.

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Digitized Content Chuck Hoberman Innovative Lives Presentation
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Creators:
Jerome and Dorothy Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation.
Hoberman, Chuck
Dates:
1996-05-08
Size:
0.25 Cubic feet (3 boxes)
Collection ID:
NMAH.AC.0604
Repository:
Archives Center, National Museum of American History

This collection contains original videos documenting Chuck Hoberman, inventor the Hoberman Sphere.

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Publications
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Creators:
Lemelson Center
Dates:
1995-2003
Size:
1 cu. ft. (1 record storage box)
Collection ID:
Accession 03-118
Repository:
Smithsonian Institution Archives

This accession consists of publications created by the Lemelson Center. Materials include Activities Report, brochures, flyers, handouts, invitations, newsletters, and programs.

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Grant Records
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Creators:
Lemelson Center
Dates:
1994-2001
Size:
1 cu. ft. (1 record storage box)
Collection ID:
Accession 03-116
Repository:
Smithsonian Institution Archives

This accession consists of staff project files pertaining to internal grants made to National Museum of American History (NMAH) staff for the development and execution of projects. Materials include proposal guidelines, original grant proposals, correspondence and notes, progress reports, financial transfer documentation, and research informat...

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Exhibition and Program Records
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Creators:
National Museum of American History. Office of Curatorial Affairs
Dates:
1994-2011
Size:
8 cu. ft. (8 record storage boxes)
Collection ID:
Accession 13-194
Repository:
Smithsonian Institution Archives

This accession consists of records which document the oversight and review process at the National Museum of American History (NMAH) in regards to exhibitions, public programs, symposia, websites, productions, and performances. In particular, the activities of the Exhibitions and Program Committee (EPC) which was created in 1996. The EPC ...

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Society for the History of Technology Records
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Creators:
Society for the History of Technology
Kranzberg, Melvin, Dr., 1917-1995
Dates:
1956-2017
Size:
353 Cubic feet (378 boxes)
Collection ID:
NMAH.AC.0400
Repository:
Archives Center, National Museum of American History

The Society for the History of Technology Records (SHOT) consists of documents relating to SHOT from its inception in 1958- [0ngoing]. The collection is divided into two subgroups: Subgroup I, General Records, 1956-2009 which consist of papers generated and received by Melvin Kranzberg in his various roles as an officer of SHOT, as well as papers of other SHOT officers. Subgroup II,Technology and Culture Records, 1958-2009, consists of documents relating to the Society's journal, Technology and Culture. T & C is a quarterly publication containing articles of interest to and written by historians and students of technology. The records consist of material generated by Melvin Kranzberg in his role as founding editor-in-chief (1959-1981), first at Case Western Reserve and later at Georgia Institute of Technology, and was succeeded at the National Museum of American History by Robert Post (1981-1996) whose editorial assistants were Brooke Hindle, Helena Wright, Jeffrey Stine, Art Molella and Joan Mentzer. When the museum ended its support of the journal, it moved to the Henry Ford under the editorship of John Staudenmaier (1996-2010) and after that to the University of Oklahoma under the editorship of Suzanne Moon (2010-2020).

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