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- Engineering Our Future - In honor of National Engineers Week, our latest THF Conversation, supported by our partners at Arrow Components<a tabindex="0" href="https://www.youtube.com/@ArrowComponents" target="" force-new-state="true" data-sf-ec-immutable=""></a> and Astemo brought together business and education leaders as they shared their career experiences and talked about educating and empowering the next generation to engineer a better tomorrow.
- February 25, 2022
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Engineering Our Future
In honor of National Engineers Week, our latest THF Conversation, supported by our partners at Arrow Components and Astemo brought together business and education leaders as they shared their career experiences and talked about educating and empowering the next generation to engineer a better tomorrow.
- The Future Is Bright with Invention Convention Michigan - On April 30, 2022, The Henry Ford was thrilled to welcome 150 student inventors to the state finals for Invention Convention Michigan in Henry Ford Museum of American Innovation.
- May 27, 2022
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The Future Is Bright with Invention Convention Michigan
On April 30, 2022, The Henry Ford was thrilled to welcome 150 student inventors to the state finals for Invention Convention Michigan in Henry Ford Museum of American Innovation.
- "Beauty and the Beast, AI-5" by Lillian F. Schwartz, 1987 - Lillian Schwartz is a pioneer of computer-generated art. From 1969-2002, she was a "resident visitor" at Bell Laboratories, producing groundbreaking films, videos, and multimedia works. The Schwartz Collection spans Lillian's childhood into her late career, documenting an expansive mindset, mastery over traditional and experimental mediums alike--and above all--an ability to create inspirational connections between science, art, and technology.
- 1987
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"Beauty and the Beast, AI-5" by Lillian F. Schwartz, 1987
Lillian Schwartz is a pioneer of computer-generated art. From 1969-2002, she was a "resident visitor" at Bell Laboratories, producing groundbreaking films, videos, and multimedia works. The Schwartz Collection spans Lillian's childhood into her late career, documenting an expansive mindset, mastery over traditional and experimental mediums alike--and above all--an ability to create inspirational connections between science, art, and technology.
- Recipe Booklet, "Jell-O, Americas Most Famous Dessert," 1916 - In 1899, Orator F. Woodward acquired the rights to Jell-O from Pearle Wait, who had invented Jell-O when he added fruit flavoring and sugar to powdered gelatin in 1897. While Wait was unable to market his product, Woodward used recipe booklets to gather interest. The booklets proved to be an invaluable marketing strategy, providing homemakers with creative uses for the ready-made product.
- 1916
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Recipe Booklet, "Jell-O, Americas Most Famous Dessert," 1916
In 1899, Orator F. Woodward acquired the rights to Jell-O from Pearle Wait, who had invented Jell-O when he added fruit flavoring and sugar to powdered gelatin in 1897. While Wait was unable to market his product, Woodward used recipe booklets to gather interest. The booklets proved to be an invaluable marketing strategy, providing homemakers with creative uses for the ready-made product.
- IMLS Update: Analysis and New Tools - Thanks to a partnership with Hitachi High Technologies, for the past few months the conservation team at The Henry Ford has had a Scanning Electron Microscope with an energy-dispersive x-ray spectroscopy attachment in our lab.
- January 31, 2019
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IMLS Update: Analysis and New Tools
Thanks to a partnership with Hitachi High Technologies, for the past few months the conservation team at The Henry Ford has had a Scanning Electron Microscope with an energy-dispersive x-ray spectroscopy attachment in our lab.
- Rubber Shoe, 1835 -
- 1835
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Rubber Shoe, 1835
- "TV Guide: America's Long Vigil," 1963-1964 - This issue of <em>TV Guide</em> documented the unprecedented four-day, uninterrupted television coverage of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, the succession of President Lyndon B. Johnson and the national mourning. Produced a mere two months after the tragedy, this extraordinary issue recounted the hour-by-hour events, the television anchors and reporters who stayed on duty, and provided the reader with a memorial souvenir.
- January 25, 1964
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"TV Guide: America's Long Vigil," 1963-1964
This issue of TV Guide documented the unprecedented four-day, uninterrupted television coverage of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, the succession of President Lyndon B. Johnson and the national mourning. Produced a mere two months after the tragedy, this extraordinary issue recounted the hour-by-hour events, the television anchors and reporters who stayed on duty, and provided the reader with a memorial souvenir.
- Machinery, Remington Rand, Inc., 1953 - George Devol was a problem solver and prolific inventor -- particularly in the area of automation. After the Second World War, Devol patented a magnetic control system -- a memory system for machines. With this reprogrammable system, manufacturers could "teach" a machine to perform repetitive tasks. Devol's innovation led to his most notable invention -- the first industrial robot.
- January 08, 1953
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Machinery, Remington Rand, Inc., 1953
George Devol was a problem solver and prolific inventor -- particularly in the area of automation. After the Second World War, Devol patented a magnetic control system -- a memory system for machines. With this reprogrammable system, manufacturers could "teach" a machine to perform repetitive tasks. Devol's innovation led to his most notable invention -- the first industrial robot.
- 3D Systems, Inc. Press Kit, 1991 -
- 1991
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3D Systems, Inc. Press Kit, 1991
- Universal Containers Inc. Sample Milk Carton -
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Universal Containers Inc. Sample Milk Carton