This small, cardboard box was used to store and market Fry's Concentrated Cocoa. The top of the box contains a multicolored vignette of a cat and a dog riding a skateboard that is groomed to look like ...

1 c.c. glass syringe with a “B-D YALE INSULIN / Becton Dickinson & Co.” inscription; and a steel needle. This would have been made after the discovery and manufacture of insulin in 1921.

Learn where to eat, shop, and play during your visit to the museum. The main eatery for the National Museum of American History is Eat at America’s Table, serving a changing menu of American regional ...

From the impact of new technologies to the influence of social and cultural changes, FOOD: Transforming the American Table explores the transformation of food and drink in post-World War II America.

Our mission is to empower people to create a just and compassionate future by exploring, preserving, and sharing the complexity of our past.

1 West Jerome and Dorothy Lemelson Hall of Invention and Innovation Draper Spark!Lab is where museum visitors become inventors. The Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation invites ...

Piece of concrete has a smooth section at the top which was the area where the skaters would skate. Carlsbad Skate Park, California's first skate park opened in March of 1976. It was built by Jack ...

Understanding women’s history is integral to understanding the American experience. Although often underrepresented in recorded histories, women helped build the United States of America of today and ...

Margaret Crane, the inventor of the first home pregnancy test, worked as a graphic designer for Organon, a pharmaceutical company in West Orange, New Jersey. Crane received a patent on her design in ...

This brass horary quadrant contains a shadow square at the vertex, numbered from 2 to 12 by twos, and labeled: CLIMA SEXTUS. A calendar scale is adjacent to the shadow square. It is labeled in Latin ...

Jazz is a kind of music in which improvisation is typically an important part. In most jazz performances, players play solos which they make up on the spot, which requires considerable skill. There is ...

The Copp family used these quill pens in their home in Stonington, Connecticut during the 18th and 19th century. Quill pens were generally made from the five outer feathers of a goose or swan’s wing.