Tesla, Guglielmo Marconi, and Thomas Edison were among the respected scientists who believed one of our neighbors was trying to contact us. A news article "Hello, Earth! Hello!" published on March 18, 1920, details the history of signals, possibly electromagnetic, picked up by Marconi and verified by scientists around the world, including Edison and Tesla. All three agreed the signals were deliberately sent from another planet. Based on the information they had, this was a realistic inference.
What do scientists do? This simple prompt was central in one activity during the inaugural week-long Seminar for Science Educators held at the Library this summer.
I love this blog post about Muybridge's stop-action photography because it's about technology, art, science....and the magic of in-between images. As the author writes: What can your students learn from the images that is not observable from the live action?
Last year I had the privilege to serve as the Special Curator for the online collection Finding Our Place in the Cosmos: From Galileo to Sagan and Beyond. This was, unquestionably, the coolest thing I have ever had the chance to work on.
Want to learn more about some of the buildings found in our nation's capital? Use the Historic American Building Survey (HABS) to learn more about the buildings and monuments you will visit while in Washington, D.C.
In the March/April issue of Social Education, the journal of the National Council for the Social Studies, our “Sources and Strategies” article focused on technologies and ideas related to effective communication.
Help your students connect with nature today and all year round, with the help of primary sources and environmental resources from the Library of Congress.
It is hard to believe that until Edweard Muybridge began his study of animal locomotion with photography in the late 19th century, we were limited to only what the eye could see or what was in a single photograph. In celebration of Muybridge’s birthday, the Library of Congress has uploaded a number of Muybridge’s Animal Locomotion images from its collections into Flickr.
