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- "San Francisco" Snow Globe, circa 1970 - Tourist attractions offered souvenir seekers something new beginning in the 1950s: inexpensive plastic snow globes. These evolved from fancier versions through innovations in plastics and manufacturing technology, and they quickly became connected with travel. Snow globes were fun to collect, easy to transport, and served as both proof of the journey and a lasting representation of vacation memories.
- circa 1970
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"San Francisco" Snow Globe, circa 1970
Tourist attractions offered souvenir seekers something new beginning in the 1950s: inexpensive plastic snow globes. These evolved from fancier versions through innovations in plastics and manufacturing technology, and they quickly became connected with travel. Snow globes were fun to collect, easy to transport, and served as both proof of the journey and a lasting representation of vacation memories.
- Edison Projecting Kinetoscope Film Gate, 1905-1915 - In motion-picture projectors, a gate is a rectangular opening where film is held flat by pressure. This opening allows the projector lamp's light to pass through, illuminating the film. Uniform pressure ensures the film is held flat against the focal plane of the lens, creating a projection that is in focus.
- 1905-1915
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Edison Projecting Kinetoscope Film Gate, 1905-1915
In motion-picture projectors, a gate is a rectangular opening where film is held flat by pressure. This opening allows the projector lamp's light to pass through, illuminating the film. Uniform pressure ensures the film is held flat against the focal plane of the lens, creating a projection that is in focus.
- Oral History Interview with Bill Gates, 2009--Photographs--Digital Images--Item 2 - Bill Gates cofounded Microsoft with Paul Allen in 1975. Gates and the Microsoft team wrote early software and operating systems that proved instrumental in launching the personal computing revolution. In 2009, staff from The Henry Ford interviewed Gates at the Microsoft offices in Seattle, Washington, as part of the Collecting Innovation Today Oral History Project.
- 2009
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Oral History Interview with Bill Gates, 2009--Photographs--Digital Images--Item 2
Bill Gates cofounded Microsoft with Paul Allen in 1975. Gates and the Microsoft team wrote early software and operating systems that proved instrumental in launching the personal computing revolution. In 2009, staff from The Henry Ford interviewed Gates at the Microsoft offices in Seattle, Washington, as part of the Collecting Innovation Today Oral History Project.
- Oral History Interview with Bill Gates, 2009--Photographs--Digital Images--Item 8 - Bill Gates cofounded Microsoft with Paul Allen in 1975. Gates and the Microsoft team wrote early software and operating systems that proved instrumental in launching the personal computing revolution. In 2009, staff from The Henry Ford interviewed Gates at the Microsoft offices in Seattle, Washington, as part of the Collecting Innovation Today Oral History Project.
- 2009
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Oral History Interview with Bill Gates, 2009--Photographs--Digital Images--Item 8
Bill Gates cofounded Microsoft with Paul Allen in 1975. Gates and the Microsoft team wrote early software and operating systems that proved instrumental in launching the personal computing revolution. In 2009, staff from The Henry Ford interviewed Gates at the Microsoft offices in Seattle, Washington, as part of the Collecting Innovation Today Oral History Project.
- Oral History Interview with Bill Gates, 2009--Photographs--Digital Images--Item 10 - Bill Gates cofounded Microsoft with Paul Allen in 1975. Gates and the Microsoft team wrote early software and operating systems that proved instrumental in launching the personal computing revolution. In 2009, staff from The Henry Ford interviewed Gates at the Microsoft offices in Seattle, Washington, as part of the Collecting Innovation Today Oral History Project.
- 2009
- Collections - Artifact
Oral History Interview with Bill Gates, 2009--Photographs--Digital Images--Item 10
Bill Gates cofounded Microsoft with Paul Allen in 1975. Gates and the Microsoft team wrote early software and operating systems that proved instrumental in launching the personal computing revolution. In 2009, staff from The Henry Ford interviewed Gates at the Microsoft offices in Seattle, Washington, as part of the Collecting Innovation Today Oral History Project.
- Oral History Interview with Bill Gates, 2009--Photographs--Digital Images--Item 18 - Bill Gates cofounded Microsoft with Paul Allen in 1975. Gates and the Microsoft team wrote early software and operating systems that proved instrumental in launching the personal computing revolution. In 2009, staff from The Henry Ford interviewed Gates at the Microsoft offices in Seattle, Washington, as part of the Collecting Innovation Today Oral History Project.
- 2009
- Collections - Artifact
Oral History Interview with Bill Gates, 2009--Photographs--Digital Images--Item 18
Bill Gates cofounded Microsoft with Paul Allen in 1975. Gates and the Microsoft team wrote early software and operating systems that proved instrumental in launching the personal computing revolution. In 2009, staff from The Henry Ford interviewed Gates at the Microsoft offices in Seattle, Washington, as part of the Collecting Innovation Today Oral History Project.
- Oral History Interview with Bill Gates, 2009--Photographs--Digital Images--Item 21 - Bill Gates cofounded Microsoft with Paul Allen in 1975. Gates and the Microsoft team wrote early software and operating systems that proved instrumental in launching the personal computing revolution. In 2009, staff from The Henry Ford interviewed Gates at the Microsoft offices in Seattle, Washington, as part of the Collecting Innovation Today Oral History Project.
- 2009
- Collections - Artifact
Oral History Interview with Bill Gates, 2009--Photographs--Digital Images--Item 21
Bill Gates cofounded Microsoft with Paul Allen in 1975. Gates and the Microsoft team wrote early software and operating systems that proved instrumental in launching the personal computing revolution. In 2009, staff from The Henry Ford interviewed Gates at the Microsoft offices in Seattle, Washington, as part of the Collecting Innovation Today Oral History Project.
- Oral History Interview with Bill Gates, 2009--Photographs--Digital Images--Item 22 - Bill Gates cofounded Microsoft with Paul Allen in 1975. Gates and the Microsoft team wrote early software and operating systems that proved instrumental in launching the personal computing revolution. In 2009, staff from The Henry Ford interviewed Gates at the Microsoft offices in Seattle, Washington, as part of the Collecting Innovation Today Oral History Project.
- 2009
- Collections - Artifact
Oral History Interview with Bill Gates, 2009--Photographs--Digital Images--Item 22
Bill Gates cofounded Microsoft with Paul Allen in 1975. Gates and the Microsoft team wrote early software and operating systems that proved instrumental in launching the personal computing revolution. In 2009, staff from The Henry Ford interviewed Gates at the Microsoft offices in Seattle, Washington, as part of the Collecting Innovation Today Oral History Project.
- Oral History Interview with Bill Gates, 2009--Photographs--Digital Images--Item 32 - Bill Gates cofounded Microsoft with Paul Allen in 1975. Gates and the Microsoft team wrote early software and operating systems that proved instrumental in launching the personal computing revolution. In 2009, staff from The Henry Ford interviewed Gates at the Microsoft offices in Seattle, Washington, as part of the Collecting Innovation Today Oral History Project.
- 2009
- Collections - Artifact
Oral History Interview with Bill Gates, 2009--Photographs--Digital Images--Item 32
Bill Gates cofounded Microsoft with Paul Allen in 1975. Gates and the Microsoft team wrote early software and operating systems that proved instrumental in launching the personal computing revolution. In 2009, staff from The Henry Ford interviewed Gates at the Microsoft offices in Seattle, Washington, as part of the Collecting Innovation Today Oral History Project.
- Oral History Interview with Bill Gates, 2009--Photographs--Digital Images--Item 33 - Bill Gates cofounded Microsoft with Paul Allen in 1975. Gates and the Microsoft team wrote early software and operating systems that proved instrumental in launching the personal computing revolution. In 2009, staff from The Henry Ford interviewed Gates at the Microsoft offices in Seattle, Washington, as part of the Collecting Innovation Today Oral History Project.
- 2009
- Collections - Artifact
Oral History Interview with Bill Gates, 2009--Photographs--Digital Images--Item 33
Bill Gates cofounded Microsoft with Paul Allen in 1975. Gates and the Microsoft team wrote early software and operating systems that proved instrumental in launching the personal computing revolution. In 2009, staff from The Henry Ford interviewed Gates at the Microsoft offices in Seattle, Washington, as part of the Collecting Innovation Today Oral History Project.