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Manhattan Project National Historical Park
Dayton, OH
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Dayton, Ohio is known for cash registers, Cheez-It crackers, pop top cans, and being the Birthplace of Aviation. However, the city has another important but widely unknown accolade on its long list of innovations and inventions: the scientific work done during the top-secret Dayton Project. The work done throughout the city in the 1940s culminated in the polonium initiators used in the atomic bombs developed by the Manhattan Project during WWII.
Homestead National Historical Park
Is All Barbed Wire the Same? - wayside exhibit
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Informational panel shows a range of early barbed wire designs. The nearby fencing reinforces this diversity of form, showing examples of different types of barbed wire.
National Mall and Memorial Parks
John Ericsson Monument
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Swiss-born John Ericsson (1803-1889) was an innovator who developed the first ironclad warships and the screw propeller for propulsion. Both inventions revolutionized naval warfare.
Sculptor: James Earle Fraser
Inscriptions
John Ericsson
AD 1803
AD 1883
Inventor and Builder of the Monitor
He Revolutionized Navigation by His Invention of the Screw Propeller
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In 1887, Alexander Graham Bell, inventor and vocal teacher, founded the Volta Bureau to serve as a research center and library for deaf people. The work of the Bureau increased to such a volume that Bell constructed the neoclassical yellow brick and sandstone building that still stands at 3417 Volta Place, NW, Washington, DC. The building serves as a reminder of Bell's dedicated work to advance the education of the deaf and sound technology in general.
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Reginald Fessenden, considered the “Father of Voice Radio”, was a Canadian-born inventor who performed pioneering radio experiments and applied them in ways that are still in use today. In pursuit of a successful system to transmit and receive the human voice using continuous radio waves, Fessenden experimented on Roanoke Island and the surrounding area for eighteen months from 1901-1902.
Mormon Pioneer National Historic Trail
The Church History Museum, Salt Lake City
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View exhibits and many important artifacts associated with the Mormon exodus to Utah, including objects related to the assassination of church founder Joseph Smith at Carthage, Illinois; Joseph Smith’s death mask; a wagon with a “roadometer” (odometer) invented by Mormon pioneers during the 1847 trek west; a cannon hauled west from Nauvoo by the advance company; and many personal belongings carried to Utah by the emigrants.
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Born on May 2, 1844, Elijah was the son of George and Mildred, two formerly enslaved people who escaped slavery and fled to Colchester, Ontario, Canada. Since birth, Elijah had an affinity for things of a mechanical nature. In his lifetime, Elijah McCoy held over 57 patents including the “Improvement in Lubricators for Steam-Engines” patented in 1872.
Fort Larned National Historic Site
The Army Laundress
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Before the invention of the washing machine, laundry was a time-consuming, labor-intensive job. From 1802 to 1876 the US Army paid women to wash soldiers' clothing. These women lived on Army posts and endured the same living conditions and hardships as the soldiers themselves.
Allegheny Portage Railroad National Historic Site
John Tittle
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John Tittle worked in the shops on the Allegheny Portage Railroad and invented the safety car.
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The United States’ involvement in World War II did not occur only on foreign soil and in foreign waters and foreign skies. It also affected the lives of Americans on the home front. These articles explore life on the home front by looking at the things people invented, created, and used and the ways that everyday life changed. They look at enemies on the home front, incarceration, the economy, rationing, and more.
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When The Arch was constructed, stainless steel had only been available for 50 years. Depending on whether you credit the Brits or the Germans, it was either invented in 1912 or 1913. The structural applications for stainless steel had only been around for about 20 years, with the largest of which had been rebar for the Progreso Pier in Mexico in the 1940s. But otherwise, as a structural material by itself, there had only been fairly small applications and little research.
Keweenaw National Historical Park
Bessie Altman Kosman
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Bessie Altman Kosman was a survivor. An entrepreneur, inventor, mother, sister, daughter, and wife, she rose from tragedy and struggle to success.
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While unknown to many, Octave Chanute was a civil engineer, aviation pioneer, and friend to the Wright brothers. Octave Chanute was the Wilbur and Orville's most important correspondent in the aeronautic community. Over 430 letters were exchanged during a period of 10 years which linked a small group of aviation enthusiast to the foremost inventors of the age of the flying machine.
Frederick Law Olmsted National Historic Site
Inventions from the World's Columbian Exposition
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In addition to the spectacular landscape architecture Frederick Law Olmsted paired with the White City, the World’s Columbian Exposition of 1893 also introduced several inventions that are still used today.
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For many, Maria Ylagan Orosa’s contributions both before and during World War II are unknown. Those that have heard of her most often know Maria as the inventor of banana ketchup. But her impact on Philippine life and her heroism on the home front in World War II are so much larger.
Rock Creek Park
Marconi Memorial
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Guglielmo Marconi (1874-1937) was the inventor of the first radio wave communication system. Congress approved legislation for the memorial on April 13, 1938, and President Franklin Roosevelt signed the bill into law the next day. The monument was erected with funds collected by the Marconi Memorial Foundation and was completed on June 30, 1941.
Acadia National Park
Ben Matthews
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Ben Matthews, of Pittsburg, PA, creates fictitious field studies that depict mysterious adaptations and inventions from this not-quite time or place based on current environmental concerns and social topics. He participated as an Artist-in-Residence at Acadia National Park in 2022.
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On October 5, 1905, Wilbur Wright flew the world’s first practical airplane, the Wright Flyer III, for an unprecedented 39 minutes and 23 seconds at Huffman Flying Field in Ohio. This accomplishment represented the inception of modern aviation. That field is just one of several cultural landscapes in and around the city of Dayton, Ohio that are associated with inventors Orville and Wilbur Wright's accomplishments and the development of aeronautics.
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The lesson is based on the The Wright Cycle Company Complex, one of the thousands of properties listed in the National Register of Historic Places. The Wright Cycle Company building has been designated a National Historic Landmark. Discover the early influences that inspired the Wright brothers as inventors and the importance of the Wright Cycle Company Complex where they developed the key mechanical skills that profoundly impacted their invention of the airplane.
Death Valley National Park
Edna Brush Perkins
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Edna Brush Perkins was born in Cleveland, Ohio to Mary & Charles Brush; Charles improved upon Humphry Davy’s arc lamp invention, making it feasible for electricity to be used commercially. Edna Brush, therefore, grew up quite well-off and received training in various arts.