The Regional Collaboratives are supported by the Smithsonian’s “ Our Shared Future: 250 ,” a Smithsonian-wide initiative ...

Since 2009, no one has seen a Panamanian golden frog in the wild. These bright yellow frogs disappeared completely when an ...

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum announced today the winners of the 2026 National Design Awards. Launched in 2000 as an official project of the White House Millennium Council, the National ...

The Smithsonian American Art Museum is collaborating for the 13th consecutive year with the National Cherry Blossom Festival ...

The Smithsonian’s National Postal Museum has launched One Minute Wonders, a new series of short-form videos designed to make postal history engaging and accessible for all audiences. Each one-minute ...

This introductory text is borrowed from the 1957 Smithsonian Publication Automobiles and Motorcycles in the U.S. National Museum written by curator Smith Hempstone Oliver. At present a large number of ...

The Smithsonian commemorates Women’s History Month in March with a series of family-friendly events, film screenings and activities presented by the Smithsonian American Women’s History Museum and ...

May 20–21, 1927, Charles Lindbergh made his famous solo, non-stop transatlantic flight in the Spirit of St. Louis. Philo T. Farnsworth transmitted the first electronic TV image, physicist Heisenberg ...

Explore items in the Smithsonian's collections related to 1974. In January, the television sitcom Happy Days premiered on the ABC network. On March 1, a grand jury in Washington, D.C., indicted ...

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Reprint. Originally published: Handy matrices of unit conversion factors for biology and mechanics. New York : Wiley, c1974. With new introd. siris_sil_467095 ...

Encyclopaedia of scientific units, weights, and measures : their SI equivalences and origins / François Cardarelli ; English translation by M.J. Shields ...