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Featured Advertisement: Electricity!

Posted by: Ellen Terrell

While doing research I got distracted by this wonderful advertisement published in the New York Tribune on October 5, 1920. It was an advertisement from the New York Edison Company touting the benefits of electricity, mostly for efficiency and safety, for businesses. But what really caught my attention was the hand drawn caricatures, for lack …

Science and Business Reading Room mural with quotation from Thomas Jefferson about the living generation. Mural by Ezra Winter. John Adams Building, Library of Congress.

A Lesson from a Founding Father

Posted by: Jennifer Harbster

The Earth belongs always to the living generation. They may manage it then, and what proceeds from it, as they please, during their usufruct. They are masters too of their own persons and consequently may govern them as they please. When researchers walk into the Science and Business Reading Room, not only are they inspired …

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Pic of the Week: Scientific Treasures

Posted by: Jennifer Harbster

This week I participated in the Science at Risk: Toward a National Strategy for Preserving Online Science meeting hosted by the National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program (NDIIPP). During this two-day meeting the Library’s recently-retired manuscript specialist Len Bruno took us on a journey through the scientific treasures of the Library’s  Manuscript Division. On display were items …