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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Franconia Notch Forest Reservation
- Location
- Currently not on view
- date made
- 1933
- ID Number
- 2015.3099.03
- nonaccession number
- 2015.3099
- catalog number
- 2015.3099.03
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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North Dome, Yosemite National Park
- Location
- Currently not on view
- date made
- before 1972
- ID Number
- 1983.0838.0134
- accession number
- 1983.0838
- catalog number
- 1983.0838.134
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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Plates Illustrating the Geology & Scenery of Massachusetts
- Description (Brief)
- Color and black and white prints bound together illustrating the scenery and geology of Massachusetts. There are nine views 1) Autumnal Scenery. View in Amherst. 2) A View in Hadley. 3) Gorge Between Holyoke and Tom. 4) West View from Holyoke. 5) South Hadley Falls. 6) Sugar Loaf Mountain, Deerfield. 7) Confluence of Connecticut and Deerfield Rivers. 8) Turner's Falls. 9) Gorge of Glen, -Leyden; four plates containing drawings of organic remains; four maps of sections in Massachusetts and Connecticut; and a "Tabular View of the Rocks and their embedded Minerals in Massachusetts".
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Date made
- ca 1833
- maker
- Pendleton's Lithography
- ID Number
- DL.60.3696
- catalog number
- 60.3696
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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Yosemite Valley, California
- Location
- Currently not on view
- ID Number
- 2017.0037.0037
- catalog number
- 2017.0037.0037
- accession number
- 2017.0037
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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North Dome, Yosemite National Park
- Location
- Currently not on view
- date made
- before 1972
- ID Number
- 1983.0838.0133
- accession number
- 1983.0838
- catalog number
- 1983.0838.133
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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Goose Pond, East Hampton
- Description
- Mary Nimmo Moran chose The Goose Pond, Easthampton as her diploma work when the recently formed Royal Society of Painter-Etchers in London elected her a Fellow in 1881, the only woman among the sixty-five original Fellows. When she exhibited four etchings in the Society’s show, the New York Herald commented on a review in a London paper, ‘“Mrs. Moran’s work is so masculine [sic] that the Daily News critic takes it for that of a man.”’ Her vigorous etching style has been frequently noted along with her preference for working outdoors directly on a prepared plate, before the subject.
- The print shows a pond, now known as Town Pond, and Gardiner’s Mill, which still stands in the town of East Hampton, where the Morans spent many summers. Landscape and in particular the landscape around East Hampton was the subject of many of Mary Nimmo Moran’s etchings.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Date made
- 1881
- graphic artist
- Moran, Mary Nimmo
- ID Number
- GA.14566
- catalog number
- 14566
- accession number
- 94830
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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Shepaug Valley
- Description (Brief)
- black and white stereograph mounted on orange cardstock; printed on recto "Shepaug Valley Views. / Landon, Photographer, New Milford, Conn."; photograph possibly by Seth C. Landon; rural scene; grass in foreground, small river in midground separated by a split rail fence; wooden bridge extending over river with a small two level house with pitched roof to left of bridge; tree covered hills rising in background
- date made
- mid-late 1800s
- ID Number
- 2012.3033.0710
- nonaccession number
- 2012.3033
- catalog number
- 2012.3033.0710
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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Forest in Cascade Mountains
- Location
- Currently not on view
- date made
- ca 1940s
- ID Number
- 2013.0327.1056
- accession number
- 2013.0327
- catalog number
- 2013.0327.1056
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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Yosemite National Park
- Location
- Currently not on view
- date made
- before 1972
- ID Number
- 1983.0838.0131
- accession number
- 1983.0838
- catalog number
- 1983.0838.131
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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No. 12. Crystal Cascade
- maker
- Soule, John P.
- ID Number
- 2012.3033.4070
- nonaccession number
- 2012.3033
- catalog number
- 2012.3033.4070
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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Rock Creek from the Taft Bridge
- Description
- Printed in 1988, the etching was included in the Washington Area Printmaker's 1992 Original Print Calendar.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Date made
- 1988
- 1992
- ID Number
- 1991.0783.15
- catalog number
- 1991.0783.15
- accession number
- 1991.0783
- catalog number
- 1991.783.15
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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Guard's Tower
- Description
- "Guard's Tower"
- Location
- Currently not on view
- date made
- 1944-04-07
- maker
- Ujihara, Akio
- ID Number
- 1986.3047.12
- catalog number
- 1986.3047.12
- nonaccession number
- 1986.3047
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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Yosemite National Park
- Location
- Currently not on view
- date made
- before 1972
- ID Number
- 1983.0838.0132
- accession number
- 1983.0838
- catalog number
- 1983.0838.132
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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