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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SMASH RACISM
- Location
- Currently not on view
- date made
- c. 2017-08-12
- used date
- 2017-08-11 - 2017-08-12
- ID Number
- 2017.0270.09
- accession number
- 2017.0270
- catalog number
- 2017.0270.09
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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National Alliance
- Location
- Currently not on view
- date made
- c. 2017-08-12
- used date
- 2017-08-11 - 2017-08-12
- maker
- National Alliance
- ID Number
- 2017.0270.05
- accession number
- 2017.0270
- catalog number
- 2017.0270.05
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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album, carte-de-visite
- Location
- Currently not on view
- date made
- 1864 circa
- ID Number
- 2018.0124.05
- accession number
- 2018.0124
- catalog number
- 2018.0124.05
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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album, travel
- Location
- Currently not on view
- date made
- 1885
- maker
- Witteman, Adolph
- ID Number
- 2011.0227.143
- accession number
- 2011.0227
- catalog number
- 2011.0227.143
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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A Few Reasons Why Nathan Clark of Lynn Should Not Go To Congress
- Location
- Currently not on view
- date made
- c. 1870s
- ID Number
- 2017.0347.11
- accession number
- 2017.0347
- catalog number
- 2017.0347.11
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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rosette
- associated date
- 1882 03 14
- ID Number
- PL.227739.1884.X03 [dup1]
- catalog number
- 227739.1884.X03
- accession number
- 227739
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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The History of the Honourable Artillery Company, Vol. I
- Location
- Currently not on view
- date made
- 1878
- Associated Date
- 1883-04
- referenced
- Arthur, Chester A.
- ID Number
- 2008.0148.08
- accession number
- 2008.0148
- catalog number
- 2008.0148.08
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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torch, tiki
- Location
- Currently not on view
- date made
- c. 2017-08-12
- used date
- 2017-08-11 - 2017-08-12
- ID Number
- 2017.0270.07
- accession number
- 2017.0270
- catalog number
- 2017.0270.07
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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shield
- Location
- Currently not on view
- used date
- 2017-08-11 - 2017-08-12
- used
- League of the South
- ID Number
- 2017.0270.01
- accession number
- 2017.0270
- catalog number
- 2017.0270.01
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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General U.S. Grant
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Date made
- ca 1862
- depicted (sitter)
- Grant, Ulysses S.
- maker
- Brady Studio
- ID Number
- PG.71.52.05
- accession number
- 302789
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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General U.S. Grant
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Date made
- ca 1862
- depicted (sitter)
- Grant, Ulysses S.
- maker
- Brady Studio
- ID Number
- PG.71.52.08
- accession number
- 302789
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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Campaign Pin, 1888
- Location
- Currently not on view
- date made
- 1888
- associated date
- 1888
- ID Number
- 2015.0200.028
- accession number
- 2015.0200
- catalog number
- 2015.0200.028
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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General U.S. Grant
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Date made
- ca 1862
- depicted (sitter)
- Grant, Ulysses S.
- maker
- Brady Studio
- ID Number
- PG.71.52.03
- accession number
- 302789
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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sign, political
- Location
- Currently not on view
- date made
- c. 2017-08-12
- used date
- 2017-08-11 - 2017-08-12
- maker
- National Alliance
- ID Number
- 2017.0270.06
- accession number
- 2017.0270
- catalog number
- 2017.0270.06
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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poster
- Location
- Currently not on view
- date made
- 1888
- associated person
- Cleveland, Grover
- ID Number
- PL.292885.02
- catalog number
- 292885.02
- accession number
- 292885
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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The Two Roads to Peace!
- Location
- Currently not on view
- associated date
- 1864 06 07
- 1864 08 30
- associated person
- Lincoln, Abraham
- Johnson, Andrew
- ID Number
- PL.227739.1864.F08
- catalog number
- 227739.1864.F08
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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box, souvenir
- Location
- Currently not on view
- date made
- 1883
- maker
- Somers Brothers
- ID Number
- 2011.0227.240
- accession number
- 2011.0227
- catalog number
- 2011.0227.240
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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noisemaker
- date made
- 1888
- associated person
- McKinley, William
- ID Number
- PL.305360.107
- catalog number
- 305360.107
- accession number
- 305360
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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National Equal Rights Party Electoral Ticket
- Location
- Currently not on view
- date made
- c. 1884
- Associated Date
- 1884
- depicted (sitter)
- Lockwood, Belva Ann
- maker
- National Equal Rights Party
- ID Number
- 2017.0347.16
- accession number
- 2017.0347
- catalog number
- 2017.0347.16
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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vest
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Associated Date
- 1860s - 1886
- wearer
- Arthur, Chester A.
- ID Number
- 2008.0148.01
- accession number
- 2008.0148
- catalog number
- 2008.0148.01
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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