Collections Spotlight: Science & Technology
Library collections
- Alexander Graham Bell Family Papers
- America’s First Look into the Camera: Daguerreotype Photos
- Around the World in the 1890s: Photographs from the World’s Transportation Commission
- Built in America: Historic American Buildings Survey/Historic American Engineering Record
- Emile Berliner & the Birth of the Recording Industry
- Finding Our Place in the Cosmos: From Galileo to Sagan and Beyond
- Frances Benjamin Johnston Gardens and Historic Houses hand-colored photos
- Historic American Buildings Survey/Historic American Engineering Record/Historic American Landscapes Survey
- Inside an American Factory: Films of the Westinghouse Works
- Inventing Entertainment: Edison Company Films & Sound Recordings
- Origins of American Animation
- Samuel F. B. Morse Papers
- Sigmund Freud Papers
- Westinghouse Works: Company Films
- Wilbur and Orville Wright Papers
Primary source sets
People
- John James Audubon
- Astronomer & Mathematician Benjamin Banneker
- Alexander Graham Bell
- Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell
- Daniel Burnham
- Rachel Carson
- George Washington Carver
- Marie Curie
- Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre
- Clarence Darrow
- Thomas A. Edison
- Cyrus Eidlitz
- Albert Einstein
- Gilbert Grosvenor & National Geographic
- Elias Howe & the Sewing Machine
- Inventors
- Benjamin Henry Latrobe
- Samuel Morse
- Otis & His Elevator
- John A. Roebling
- James Smithson & the Smithsonian Institution
- Louis H. Sullivan
- Nikola Tesla
- Frank Lloyd Wright
- The Inventive Wright Brothers (Teacher’s Guide)
- Historical Women in STEM
- Scientists & Inventors primary source set
Places
- Arctic Circle & the North Pole
- Brooklyn Bridge
- Golden Gate Bridge
- Grand Canyon
- Hoover Dam
- Williamsburg Bridge
Events
- Arbor Day & Trees
- Edison Gets Kinetographic Camera Patent
- Federal Patent for Steamboat Awarded
- First Telegraphic Message Sent
- Galveston Storm
- Hurricane Katrina
- Wright Brothers First Flight
Inventions & technologies
- Air Balloons & Airships
- Electricity
- Flights & planes
- The Ice Cream Cone
- Inventions
- Nuclear Fission
- Skyscrapers
- Submarines
Natural Disasters
More primary source sets
- Architecture
- Astronomy
- Audubon bird illustrations selected prints
- Bats
- Cicadas
- Conservation & Environment
- Experiments & inventions selected images
- Household appliances selected images
- Industry selected images
- Keeping Time
- Medicine selected images
- NASA & the Space Age
- Science
- Scientific Data: Observing, Recording, and Communicating Information (Teacher’s Guide)
- Snow
- Solar Eclipse
- Telegraph selected images
- Understanding the Cosmos: Models of the Solar System and the Universe (Teacher’s Guide)
- Weather
- Weather Forecasting (Teacher’s Guide)
Featured images
- 1894 Telephone Lines
- Detail of Submarine Section
- Electrical phenomena
- Hurricane San Ciriaco
- Map of New York & Erie Rail Road
- Map of the Western Hemisphere including illustrations of notable developments in science and technology of the late 16th century
- Night lights
- Posters with Science Connections
- Prominent Inventors
- Space Shuttle F-1 Engine
- Systema Solare et Planetarium
- Transit of Venus March
Chronicling America historical newspapers highlighted topics
- Air Mail 1912-1922
- Boston Subway 1897-1921
- Brooklyn Bridge 1883-1920
- Darwin 1863-1919
- Dirigibles 1852-1919
- Early Electric Cars in America 1891-1922
- Early Submarines 1864-1918
- The Electric Chair 1887-1919
- Female Pilots 1911-1918
- The Flatiron Building 1902-1908
- Glenn Curtiss 1904-1914
- Harriet Quimby 1911-1912
- Horseless Carriages and Ford’s Model T 1896-1920
- Interpretation of Dreams 1893-1922
- Invention of the Telephone 1876-1915
- Marconi 1896-1922
- Marie Curie 1899-1921
- Melvin Vaniman 1910-1912
- Mount Wilson Observatory 1905-1917
- New York City Skyscrapers 1892-1914
- New York City Subway 1903-1915
- Nikola Tesla 1894-1915
- The Panama Canal 1889-1914
- Thomas Edison 1891-1947
- Patent Medicines 1902-1909
- Invention of the Telephone 1876-1915
- Shackleton 1910-1916
- Theodore Roosevelt’s Great White Fleet 1907-1909
- Titanic, the Building of 1908-1910
- Washington Monument 1836-1894
- Women and Aviation 1910-1919
- Wright Brothers 1903-1948
- X-rays 1896-1922
Online exhibitions
- Benjamin Franklin: In His Own Words
- The Dream of Flight
- Earth as Art: A Landsat Perspective
- Earth As Art 3: A Landsat Perspective
- Frank Lloyd Wright: Designs for an American Landscape
- John Bull and Uncle Sam: Inventions and Discoveries
- Molto Animato!: Music & Animation
- Share the Perspective of Genius: Leonardo’s Study for the Adoration of the Magi
- The Work of Charles and Ray Eames: A Legacy of Invention
Presentations
- Emile Berliner: Inventor of the Gramophone
- Everyday Mysteries: Fun Science Facts
- Hog Heaven: Celebrating 100 Years of the Harley-Davidson
- The Invention of the Telegraph
- Notes on the Origin of American Animation, 1900-1921
- Science, Medicine, Exploration and Invention
- Thomas Alva Edison
- The Westinghouse World: The Companies, the People and the Places
- With Wings As Eagles: From Fantasy to Flight
Teaching resources
More resources
- Celebrating African Americans in Science & Business
- Historical Women in STEM
- Latinx and Chicanx in STEM research guide
- Science & technology research guides
- Science & technology webcasts
- Science Tracer Bullets
- Ships: Navigating for Images research guide
- Sputnik and the Space Race: 1957 and Beyond research guide
- Topics in Science Library of Congress videos on YouTube
- Webcasts from the Science, Technology & Business Division