Energy & Power
The Museum's collections on energy and power illuminate the role of fire, steam, wind, water, electricity, and the atom in the nation's history. The artifacts include wood-burning stoves, water turbines, and windmills, as well as steam, gas, and diesel engines. Oil-exploration and coal-mining equipment form part of these collections, along with a computer that controlled a power plant and even bubble chambers—a tool of physicists to study protons, electrons, and other charged particles.
A special strength of the collections lies in objects related to the history of electrical power, including generators, batteries, cables, transformers, and early photovoltaic cells. A group of Thomas Edison's earliest light bulbs are a precious treasure. Hundreds of other objects represent the innumerable uses of electricity, from streetlights and railway signals to microwave ovens and satellite equipment.
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Blood Balm
- Description
- The indications or uses for this product as provided by the manufacturer are: Purifying Alterative
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Date made
- c. 1915
- associated date
- 1883
- maker
- Blood Balm Company
- ID Number
- 1978.0235.178
- accession number
- 1978.0235
- catalog number
- 1978.0235.178
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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Tamara Larix Bon Bon
- Description
- The indications or uses for this product as provided on its packaging:
- For the cure of constipation and liver diseases and thereby for the prevention of headache, dyspepsia, cerebral congestion, biliousness, piles, etc., etc. Cures constipation and thus prevents congestion of the brain, apoplexy, insanity, convulsions. It is almost a cure for sea sickness.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Date made
- 1872-1883
- maker
- McKesson and Robbins
- F. Crosby
- ID Number
- MG.M-12151.15
- accession number
- 271464
- catalog number
- M-12151.15
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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"Doct Robt B Folger's Olosaonian"
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Date made
- c. 1840-1860
- c. 1880
- ID Number
- MG.M-10755 [dup3]
- catalog number
- M-10755
- accession number
- 256193
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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Thermaline
- Description
- The indications or uses for this product as provided on its packaging:
- For chills; fever; ague; dumb ague; intermittent fever; all malarial diseases; enlarged spleen; ague cake; remittent, intermittent, periodic, continuous, swamp, bilious, congestive and simple fevers; liver disorders; kidney disease; jaundice; general debility; poverty of the blood; neuralgia; female debility; dyspepsia
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Date made
- ca 1880
- maker
- Dundas Dick and Company
- ID Number
- MG.M-12151.06A
- catalog number
- M-12151.06A
- accession number
- 271464
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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Magic Cure for Chills and All Fevers
- Description
- The indications or uses for this product as provided on its packaging:
- Cures malarial fevers, headaches, dyspepsia, neuralgia, rheumatism, piles, costiveness
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Date made
- 1875-1883
- maker
- George Tallcot
- ID Number
- 1989.0711.31
- accession number
- 1989.0711
- catalog number
- 1989.0711.31
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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Tropic Fruit Laxative
- Description
- The indications or uses for this product as provided by the manufacturer are:
- Laxative
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Date made
- ca 1885
- maker
- J. E. Hetherington
- ID Number
- MG.293320.1279
- catalog number
- 293320.1279
- accession number
- 293320
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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Hanson's Magic Corn Salve
- Description
- The indications or uses for this product as provided by the manufacturer are: An effective preparation for corns and callouses. Quickly soothes the pain and removes the corn in one night. Soak foot in warm water at night before application of salve. Spread thickly on corn and bind with piece of linen or gauze. Soak foot and remove corn the following morning.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- date made
- 1950s-1970s
- product introduced
- 1884
- maker
- W. T. Hanson Company
- ID Number
- AG.P73.2759.06
- catalog number
- P73.2759.06
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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Uncle Ben Jo's Bell Tongue Syrup
- Description
- The indications or uses for this product as provided on its packaging:
- A blood purifier, purgative, diuretic alterative, cures all liver, stomach, bowels and kidney diseases, nervous debility, dropsy, scrofula, salt rheum, all skin diseases, worms, gravel and other bladder diseases, ague, cough, cold, heart disease, rheumatism, asthma, bilious and intermittent fevers, jaundice, chronic diarrhea, flatulency, internal inflammation, erysipelas, constipation, dyspepsia, brain diseases, vertigo or dizziness, gout, lumbago, leuccorrhea and all female diseases, epilepsy, swollen feet and limbs, boils, tumors, tetters, scaldhead, ringworm, ulcers and general debility
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Date made
- ca 1900
- ca 1880
- maker
- F. Rumsey Gridley
- ID Number
- MG.M-10426.66
- catalog number
- M-10426
- accession number
- 246707
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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Dr. J. Walker's California Vinegar Bitters
- Description
- The indications or uses for this product as provided by the manufacturer are:
- The great blood purifier and life-giving principle. A remedy for dyspepsia, indigestion, rheumatism, diarrhea, consumption, catarrh, bronchitis, neuralgia, headache, boils and ulcers, sore eyes, dropsy, scald head, paralysis, erysipelas, scrofula, tetter, skin diseases, bilious, remittent and intermittent fevers. Pains in the back, shoulders, heart and chest, liver and kidney complaints, stomach ache, jaundice, gout and fits, dizziness, colds and coughs, croup, palpitations of the heart, lead colic, nausea, biliousness, dysentary, piles, etc. Pin, tape and other worms lurking in the system of so many thousands are effectually destroyed and removed. For female complaints, in young or old, married or single, at the dawn of womanhood or the turn of life, this tonic bitters has no equal. Aperient, diaphoretic and carminative, nutritious, laxative, diuretic, sedative, counter-irritant, sudorific, alterative, and anti-bilious.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- date made
- after 1886
- maker
- R. H. McDonald Drug Company
- ID Number
- 2008.0062.28
- accession number
- 2008.0062
- catalog number
- 2008.0062.28
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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