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World War II ‘Scientific Manpower’
Bookshelves of the OSRD collection housed in the Library of Congress TRS unit. K-rations, better night vision binoculars, and synthetic rubber are just a few examples of innovations resulted from...
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Five Questions (The Intern Edition): Brian Horowitz
2011 Junior Fellow Brian Horowitz of Montgomery College, Maryalnd 1. What is your background? I hail from Silver Spring, Maryland, about fifteen miles away from the Library. I currently attend...
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The U.S. National Flag: A Standard of Design
July 4th fireworks, Washington, D.C. Photograph by Carol Highsmith (2008) Many of us associate July 4th, Independence Day, with barbecues, picnics and fireworks. But it is also the day when we proudly...
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Five Questions (The Intern Edition): Camron T. Lee
This post features the Library’s ST&B 2013 junior fellow Camron T. Lee from Utah State University. Camron T. Lee 2013 Junior Fellow for Library of Congress, ST&B. 1. What is your background I...
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Upcoming Book Talk on May 14: Behind the Gas Mask
The following post is authored by Mary Jane Cavallo, an Automation Operations Coordinator for the Science, Technology and Business Division. Early 20th century gas masks. National Photo Company...
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Monkey Skin, Elephant’s Breath, and Kitten’s Ear: History of Color Naming
There is scarcely any subject that has so many practical and scientific aspects as the subject of color (Henry LeFavour, Elementary Color, 1895: p 1). Robert Ridgway, 1873. Record Unit 95 – Photograph...
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Fifty Years of Flight: L’Aérophile Collection
In the past, we have mentioned the L’Aérophile Collection in blog posts such as “Come Fly Away with Me, Courtesy of Wilbur and Orville” and “Flights of Fantasy and Fact: Man-made Wings in Literature...
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Office of Scientific Research and Development Collections
This post was authored by William Choi & Cassidy Creighton, 2019 Junior Fellows, and Tomoko Y. Steen, Science Reference and Research Specialist, in the Science, Technology, and Business Division....
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Historical Science Collections from WWII to the Postwar Period
This blog post is authored by Tomoko Y. Steen, Ph.D., Research Specialist in the Science Section. Signing of the Japanese surrender document aboard the U.S.S. “Missouri” in Tokyo Bay, Sept. 2, 1945....
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Prospecting for Uranium
Knowing that uranium is radioactive, when I pictured uranium production, I imagined scenes with laboratory equipment, full chemical suits, and 1970s-era computers with warning alarms. I did not think...
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