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- "John Wesley Preaching on His Father's Grave," June 6, 1742 -
- June 06, 1742
- Collections - Artifact
"John Wesley Preaching on His Father's Grave," June 6, 1742
- Hyatt Hotel Pen, 2000-2010 - Hotels and motels often provide guests with small promotional items that are useful during their stay. Guests at a Hyatt hotel in the 2000s could usually find a ball-point pen in their rooms. The pens could be taken home--where they became advertisements for the lodging chain.
- 2000-2010
- Collections - Artifact
Hyatt Hotel Pen, 2000-2010
Hotels and motels often provide guests with small promotional items that are useful during their stay. Guests at a Hyatt hotel in the 2000s could usually find a ball-point pen in their rooms. The pens could be taken home--where they became advertisements for the lodging chain.
- Hyatt Place Hotel Card Key, 2000-2010 - In many hotels and motels, electronic room keys replaced traditional metal keys attached to tags. These programmable plastic keycards can be reused, and there is no need for guests to return them if they are accidently taken home. Guests at a Hyatt Place hotel used this convenient credit card-sized keycard in the 2000s.
- 2000-2010
- Collections - Artifact
Hyatt Place Hotel Card Key, 2000-2010
In many hotels and motels, electronic room keys replaced traditional metal keys attached to tags. These programmable plastic keycards can be reused, and there is no need for guests to return them if they are accidently taken home. Guests at a Hyatt Place hotel used this convenient credit card-sized keycard in the 2000s.
- Basket Weaving, Mrs. Hyatt, 1890-1915 - In 1890, Jenny Young Chandler, 25 years old and recently widowed, began working for the <em>New York Herald</em>. As a photojournalist and feature writer, Chandler captured life in Brooklyn, New York, and vicinity. By 1922, the time of her death, she had produced over 800 glass plate negatives. Her sensitive, insightful photographs depict people from all walks of life and the world in which they lived.
- 1890-1915
- Collections - Artifact
Basket Weaving, Mrs. Hyatt, 1890-1915
In 1890, Jenny Young Chandler, 25 years old and recently widowed, began working for the New York Herald. As a photojournalist and feature writer, Chandler captured life in Brooklyn, New York, and vicinity. By 1922, the time of her death, she had produced over 800 glass plate negatives. Her sensitive, insightful photographs depict people from all walks of life and the world in which they lived.
- Trade Card for J. Wesley & Sons Low Priced Clothiers, circa 1860 - In the last third of the nineteenth century, an unprecedented variety of consumer goods and services flooded the American market. Advertisers, armed with new methods of color printing, bombarded potential customers with trade cards. Americans enjoyed and often saved the vibrant little advertisements found in product packages or distributed by local merchants. Many survive as historical records of commercialism in the United States.
- circa 1860
- Collections - Artifact
Trade Card for J. Wesley & Sons Low Priced Clothiers, circa 1860
In the last third of the nineteenth century, an unprecedented variety of consumer goods and services flooded the American market. Advertisers, armed with new methods of color printing, bombarded potential customers with trade cards. Americans enjoyed and often saved the vibrant little advertisements found in product packages or distributed by local merchants. Many survive as historical records of commercialism in the United States.
- "Parts Book Model H, The Cleveland Tractor Equipped with Timken and Hyatt Bearings," January 1919 -
- January 01, 1919
- Collections - Artifact
"Parts Book Model H, The Cleveland Tractor Equipped with Timken and Hyatt Bearings," January 1919
- Bob Arnzen and Wesley Clark with the "TOWTMTEWP" Computer, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri, circa 1972 - In 1936, Alan Turing wrote about a theoretical universal computer now referred to as a "Turing Machine." In 1972, Washington University professors Wesley Clark and Bob Arnzen likely made the first physical version of Turing's machine. Clark used the TOWTMTEWP ("The Only Working Turing Machine There Ever Was Probably") as an educational tool, demonstrating basic computer theory for his students.
- circa 1972
- Collections - Artifact
Bob Arnzen and Wesley Clark with the "TOWTMTEWP" Computer, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri, circa 1972
In 1936, Alan Turing wrote about a theoretical universal computer now referred to as a "Turing Machine." In 1972, Washington University professors Wesley Clark and Bob Arnzen likely made the first physical version of Turing's machine. Clark used the TOWTMTEWP ("The Only Working Turing Machine There Ever Was Probably") as an educational tool, demonstrating basic computer theory for his students.
- Bob Arnzen and Wesley Clark with the "TOWTMTEWP" Computer, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri, circa 1972 - In 1936, Alan Turing wrote about a theoretical universal computer now referred to as a "Turing Machine." In 1972, Washington University professors Wesley Clark and Bob Arnzen likely made the first physical version of Turing's machine. Clark used the TOWTMTEWP ("The Only Working Turing Machine There Ever Was Probably") as an educational tool, demonstrating basic computer theory for his students.
- circa 1972
- Collections - Artifact
Bob Arnzen and Wesley Clark with the "TOWTMTEWP" Computer, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri, circa 1972
In 1936, Alan Turing wrote about a theoretical universal computer now referred to as a "Turing Machine." In 1972, Washington University professors Wesley Clark and Bob Arnzen likely made the first physical version of Turing's machine. Clark used the TOWTMTEWP ("The Only Working Turing Machine There Ever Was Probably") as an educational tool, demonstrating basic computer theory for his students.
- New Acquisition: LINC Computer Console - The "Laboratory INstrument Computer" (aka the LINC) is among the contenders for the title of the "first personal computer." Two original examples of the main console for the LINC are now part of The Henry Ford's collection of computing history.
- April 27, 2020
- Collections - article
New Acquisition: LINC Computer Console
The "Laboratory INstrument Computer" (aka the LINC) is among the contenders for the title of the "first personal computer." Two original examples of the main console for the LINC are now part of The Henry Ford's collection of computing history.
- Hoppin' John -
- August 28, 2015
- Collections - Recipe
Hoppin' John