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- "'N Sync" Compact Disc, 1998 -
- 1998
- Collections - Artifact
"'N Sync" Compact Disc, 1998
- Smash Mouth "Astro Lounge" Compact Disc, 1999 -
- 1999
- Collections - Artifact
Smash Mouth "Astro Lounge" Compact Disc, 1999
- Kaleidoscope - Kaleidoscopes provide a visual feast for the eye. Angled mirrors enclosed in a tube create beautiful, ever-changing symmetrical patterns from bits of colorful glass and other translucent material. Kaleidoscopes have mesmerized children and adults since the mid-1810s, when Scottish-born David Brewster invented the first one.
- Collections - Artifact
Kaleidoscope
Kaleidoscopes provide a visual feast for the eye. Angled mirrors enclosed in a tube create beautiful, ever-changing symmetrical patterns from bits of colorful glass and other translucent material. Kaleidoscopes have mesmerized children and adults since the mid-1810s, when Scottish-born David Brewster invented the first one.
- C. G. Bush Kaleidoscope, 1874-1900 - Kaleidoscopes provide a visual feast for the eye. Angled mirrors enclosed in a tube create beautiful, ever-changing symmetrical patterns from bits of colorful glass and other translucent material. In the late 1800s, Charles Bush placed small liquid-filled vials in his kaleidoscopes. The moving liquid and bubbles in the vials provided a unique component to this optical experience.
- 1874-1900
- Collections - Artifact
C. G. Bush Kaleidoscope, 1874-1900
Kaleidoscopes provide a visual feast for the eye. Angled mirrors enclosed in a tube create beautiful, ever-changing symmetrical patterns from bits of colorful glass and other translucent material. In the late 1800s, Charles Bush placed small liquid-filled vials in his kaleidoscopes. The moving liquid and bubbles in the vials provided a unique component to this optical experience.
- Zoetrope, 1920-1950 - A zoetrope produces the illusion of motion through a series of images placed on the interior wall of a cylinder. As the cylinder turns, viewers look through the vertical slits. The images -- each one slightly different from the one previous -- blur together as the cylinder rotates and create the appearance of movement.
- 1920-1950
- Collections - Artifact
Zoetrope, 1920-1950
A zoetrope produces the illusion of motion through a series of images placed on the interior wall of a cylinder. As the cylinder turns, viewers look through the vertical slits. The images -- each one slightly different from the one previous -- blur together as the cylinder rotates and create the appearance of movement.
- "Billy Madison" DVD, 1995 -
- 1995
- Collections - Artifact
"Billy Madison" DVD, 1995
- Alexander Wright and Co. Methven's Screen, 1880-1895 -
- 1880-1895
- Collections - Artifact
Alexander Wright and Co. Methven's Screen, 1880-1895
- Felt & Tarrant Comptometer, 1951 - Mechanical adding machines like this Comptometer were indispensable--and almost indestructible--office equipment until the computer era. Dorr Felt's 1884 invention of a key-driven mechanical adding machine had become big business by the 1950s, when this Comptometer was made. This particular Comptometer was used in the accounting department of an eyewear manufacturing company from 1951-1967, when its operator retired.
- 1951
- Collections - Artifact
Felt & Tarrant Comptometer, 1951
Mechanical adding machines like this Comptometer were indispensable--and almost indestructible--office equipment until the computer era. Dorr Felt's 1884 invention of a key-driven mechanical adding machine had become big business by the 1950s, when this Comptometer was made. This particular Comptometer was used in the accounting department of an eyewear manufacturing company from 1951-1967, when its operator retired.
- Kaleidoscope - Kaleidoscopes provide a visual feast for the eye. Angled mirrors enclosed in a tube create beautiful, ever-changing symmetrical patterns from bits of colorful glass and other translucent material. Kaleidoscopes have mesmerized children and adults since the mid-1810s, when Scottish-born David Brewster invented the first one.
- Collections - Artifact
Kaleidoscope
Kaleidoscopes provide a visual feast for the eye. Angled mirrors enclosed in a tube create beautiful, ever-changing symmetrical patterns from bits of colorful glass and other translucent material. Kaleidoscopes have mesmerized children and adults since the mid-1810s, when Scottish-born David Brewster invented the first one.
- Kaleidoscope - Kaleidoscopes provide a visual feast for the eye. Angled mirrors enclosed in a tube create beautiful, ever-changing symmetrical patterns from bits of colorful glass and other translucent material. Kaleidoscopes have mesmerized children and adults since the mid-1810s, when Scottish-born David Brewster invented the first one.
- Collections - Artifact
Kaleidoscope
Kaleidoscopes provide a visual feast for the eye. Angled mirrors enclosed in a tube create beautiful, ever-changing symmetrical patterns from bits of colorful glass and other translucent material. Kaleidoscopes have mesmerized children and adults since the mid-1810s, when Scottish-born David Brewster invented the first one.