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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Part II: "The Lady Nurse of Ward E" bids adieu to Washington, D.C.
- Blog Post Category
- Civil War 150
- Medicine and Science
- Women's History
- Description
- Curator Diane Wendt continues the story of Amanda Akin, a Civil War nurse in Washington, D.C.
- Published Date
- Thu, 31 Jul 2014 11:01:26 -0400
- Creator
- National Museum of American History
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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Scrap Album
- Location
- Currently not on view
- date made
- 1881
- associated date
- July 9, 1881
- associated person
- Ormes, DeForest L.
- Lockwood, Belva Ann
- maker
- Lockwood, Belva Ann
- ID Number
- PL.275704.55
- catalog number
- 275704.55
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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Dr. Mary Walker
- Location
- Currently not on view
- depicted (sitter)
- Walker, Mary Ellen McMurry
- ID Number
- 1977.0564.01
- accession number
- 1977.0564
- catalog number
- 1977.0564.01
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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ribbon
- Description
- The Woman's Relief Corps is the women's auxiliary to the Grand Army of the Republic, GAR. The GAR is a Civil War Union Veterans organization and the main purpose of the Women's Relief Corps was to support the memory of the GAR.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- associated date
- 1883
- ID Number
- PL.221333.26
- catalog number
- 221333.26
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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Executive
- Location
- Currently not on view
- date made
- 1886
- associated date
- December 13, 1886
- ID Number
- PL.242991.190
- catalog number
- 242991.190
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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Mary E. Walker, M.D., N.P.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- associated date
- 1861-1865
- associated person
- Walker, Mary Ellen McMurry
- ID Number
- PL.310679.02
- catalog number
- 310679.02
- accession number
- 310679
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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pin, lapel
- Location
- Currently not on view
- associated date
- 1887
- unspecified
- National Woman's Party
- ID Number
- 1987.0165.008
- catalog number
- 1987.0165.008
- accession number
- 1987.0165
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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ICW March 30, 1888 Organized at Washington D.C.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- date made
- 1888
- associated date
- March 30, 1888
- associated institution
- National American Woman Suffrage Association
- associated person
- Stanton, Elizabeth Cady
- Anthony, Susan B.
- ID Number
- PL.241839.43
- catalog number
- 241839.43
- accession number
- 241839
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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badge
- Description
- The Women's Relief Corps is the women's auxiliary to the Grand Army of the Republic, GAR, with the primary purpose to continue the memory of the GAR. The GAR is a civil war union veteran's organization.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- associated date
- 1883
- ID Number
- PL.070138 [dup28]
- accession number
- 70138
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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Elder's Credentials
- Location
- Currently not on view
- date made
- 1880
- associated date
- 1880
- 1940
- ID Number
- PL.026182
- catalog number
- 026182
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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pin
- Location
- Currently not on view
- associated date
- 1881
- 1981
- maker
- American Association of University Women
- ID Number
- 1982.0391.35
- accession number
- 1982.0391
- catalog number
- 1982.0391.35
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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Holy Bible, the New Testament...
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Date made
- 1863
- associated date
- June 22, 1864
- associated person
- Walker, Mary Ellen McMurry
- ID Number
- PL.309870.01
- catalog number
- 309870.01
- accession number
- 309870
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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