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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Dr. Morse's Indian Root Pills
- Location
- Currently not on view
- date made
- after 1881
- maker
- W. H. Comstock Company
- ID Number
- 2009.0097.10
- accession number
- 2009.0097
- catalog number
- 2009.0097.10
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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Moses Dame's Wine of the Woods
- Description
- The indications or uses for this product as provided by the manufacturer are:
- Remedy for dyspepsia, biliousness, costiveness, headache, worms, jaundice, liver complaint, debility, loss of energy, feebleness and all other diseases arising from derangement of the stomach, liver or blood. Indigestion, heart burn, distress, or a sense of fullness after eating, pains in the bowels, back, sides, or under the shoulders, female weakness and irregularities, piles, sick headache, boils, ulcers, eruptions, weakness, flatulence, sour stomach, fever and ague, disturbances of the bowels, nausea, diarrhea, dysentery, colds, palpitations, asthma, kidney complaint, erysipelas, painter's colic [chronic intestinal pains and constipation caused by lead poisoning]
- Location
- Currently not on view
- date made
- 1872-1883
- maker
- Moses Dame Company
- ID Number
- MG.293320.1323
- catalog number
- 293320.1323
- accession number
- 293320
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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Chamberlain's Cough Remedy
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Date made
- c. 1906
- 1908-1918
- associated date
- 1882
- maker
- Chamberlain Medicine Company
- ID Number
- MG.M-10766 [dup6]
- catalog number
- M-10766
- accession number
- 256193
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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Upham's Asthma Cure
- Description
- The indications or uses for this product as provided on its packaging:
- For asthma paroxysm
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Date made
- 1872-1883
- maker
- Samuel C. Upham
- ID Number
- MG.M-12151.16
- catalog number
- 314016.025
- accession number
- 271464
- 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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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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Newton's Jaundice Bitters; Dr. I. Newton's Antibilious Bitters
- Description
- The indications or uses for this product as provided by the manufacturer are: Biliousness, jaundice, dyspepsia, fever &ague, hypochondria, hysterics, flatulence, costitiveness, diarrhoea, indigestion, asthma, worms, catarrh, sick headache, liver complaint.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- date made
- 1875-1883
- maker
- Newton, Israel
- ID Number
- MG.293320.1268
- accession number
- 293320
- catalog number
- 293320.1268
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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Brioschi
- Description
- The indications or uses for this product as provided by the manufacturer are: Indicated as a pleasant, quick acting, effective antacid relieving upset stomach, hyperacidity, fullness, sour stomach, heartburn, and other forms of distress due to over-indulgence in food or drink.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- date made
- after 1880
- after 1907
- maker
- A. Brioschi and Company
- ID Number
- 1979.1144.029
- accession number
- 1979.1144
- catalog number
- 1979.1144.029
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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Thermaline
- Description
- The indications or uses for this product as provided by the manufacturer are: 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-12151.06B
- accession number
- 271464
- catalog number
- M-12151
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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Renne's Magic Oil
- Description
- The indications or uses for this product as provided by the manufacturer are:
- Colic, cholera morbus, cramps and pain in the stomach, cholera, coughs, colds, croup, sore throat, dyspepsia, diarrhea, fever and ague, kidney difficulty, pleurisy, acid stomach, indigestion, headache, sea sickness, rheumatism, neuralgia, sprains, lameness, sciatica, toothache, earache, catarrh, frost bites
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Date made
- ca 1880
- maker
- William Renne and Sons
- ID Number
- MG.293320.1353
- catalog number
- 293320.1353
- accession number
- 293320
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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Chamberlain's Pain-Balm
- Description
- The indications or uses for this product as provided by the manufacturer are: Rheumatism, neuralgia, sciatica, lame back, lumbago, gout, sprains, swellings and lameness, cuts, bruises, wounds and lacerations, burns and scalds, chilblains, frostbites, sore throat, quinsy, glandular swellings, headache, toothache, backache, soreness of chest, pain in side, pain in back, cramp in muscle and all deep-seated and muscular pains
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Date made
- after 1882
- associated date
- 1882
- maker
- Chamberlain Medicine Company
- ID Number
- MG.M-10243.06
- catalog number
- M-10243.06
- accession number
- 241520
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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Chamberlain's Pain-Balm
- Description
- The indications or uses for this product as provided by the manufacturer are: Rheumatism, neuralgia, sciatica, lame back, lumbago, gout, sprains, swellings and lameness, cuts, bruises, wounds and lacerations, burns and scalds, chilblains, frostbites, sore throat, quinsy, glandular swellings, headache, toothache, backache, soreness of chest, pain in side, pain in back, cramp in muscle and all deep-seated and muscular pains
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Date made
- 1882-1906
- associated date
- 1882
- maker
- Chamberlain Medicine Company
- ID Number
- MG.M-10243.03
- catalog number
- M-10243.03
- accession number
- 241520
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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Sheridan's Cavalry Condition Powder - for the Prevention and Cure Hog Cholera, Chicken Cholera, and Cattle Plague
- Description
- The indications or uses for this product as provided on its packaging:
- For the cure of diseases of horse, cattle, sheep, swine and poultry. This powder should be given in all cases of loss of appetite, roughness of hair, stoppage of bowels or water, coughs, colds, swelling of gland of throat, worms, horse-ail, hide-bound, hots and heaves. For the prevention and cure of cattle plague, in its various forms of southern cattle fever, anthrax, rinderpest, pleuro-pneumonia, etc., hog cholera, chicken cholera.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- date made
- ca 1885
- maker
- I. S. Johnson and Company
- ID Number
- MG.M-10768
- catalog number
- M-10768
- accession number
- 256193
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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Schenck's Mandrake Pills
- Description
- The indications or uses for this product as provided by the manufacturer are: For biliousness and associated conditions due to constipation.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Date made
- c. 1900
- c. 1883
- maker
- Dr. J. H. Schenck & Son
- ID Number
- 1979.0798.379
- catalog number
- 1979.0798.379
- accession number
- 1979.0798
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy
- Description
- The indications or uses for this product as provided by the manufacturer are: Cures pain in the stomach, colic, cholera morbus, cramp colic, bilious colic, painters' colic, summer complaint, cholera, dysentary, diarrhoea, bloody flux, chronic diarrhoea, cholera infantum, and bowel complaint in all its forms.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Date made
- 1882-1906
- associated date
- 1882
- maker
- Chamberlain Medicine Company
- ID Number
- MG.M-10426.63
- catalog number
- M-01426
- accession number
- 246707
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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Dr. Bull's Pills
- Description
- The indications or uses for this product as provided by the manufacturer are: For the blood, the stomach, the liver and the bowels
- Location
- Currently not on view
- date made
- after 1883
- maker
- A. C. Meyer and Company
- ID Number
- 1984.0782.030
- accession number
- 1984.0782
- catalog number
- 1984.0782.030
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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Shiloh's Catarrh Remedy
- Description
- The indications or uses for this product as provided by the manufacturer are: A speedy and positive cure for catarrh, cold in the head, sore throat, canker mouth, and nervous headache
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Date made
- 1873-1883
- maker
- S. C. Wells and Company
- ID Number
- 1979.0798.119
- accession number
- 1979.0798
- catalog number
- 1979.0798.119
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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Dr. Davenport's Bilious Pills
- Description
- The indications or uses for this product as provided by the manufacturer are: purifying the blood and creating an appetite
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Date made
- c. 1861 - 1883
- maker
- Weeks and Potter
- ID Number
- 1984.0782.049
- accession number
- 1984.0782
- catalog number
- 1984.0782.049
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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Dr. Shiloh's System Vitalizer
- Description
- The indications or uses for this product as provided by the manufacturer are: For the Cure of Dyspepsia, Inactive Liver, Habitual Constipation, Sour Stomach, Loss of Appetite and General Languer and Debility of the System
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Date made
- c. 1880
- maker
- S. C. Wells and Company
- ID Number
- 2004.0050.14
- accession number
- 2004.0050
- catalog number
- 2004.0050.14
- 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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