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1. SIAHPL_160307_009.JPG: Places of Invention
2. SIAHPL_160307_018.JPG: Fort Collins College town combines its energies for a greener planet 2010s
3. SIAHPL_160307_025.JPG: People Whose Idea Was It?
4. SIAHPL_160307_028.JPG: Place Why Here? Why Now?
5. SIAHPL_160307_032.JPG: Invention How was it invented?
6. SIAHPL_160307_035.JPG: Brewing Sustainability
7. SIAHPL_160307_038.JPG: Collaboration Location
8. SIAHPL_160307_044.JPG: Bryan Willson's Vision
9. SIAHPL_160307_054.JPG: Behind the Magic of Technicolor
10. SIAHPL_160307_056.JPG: Hollywood Young town gives birth to the movies' Golden Age 1930s
11. SIAHPL_160307_060.JPG: People Whose Idea Was It?
12. SIAHPL_160307_063.JPG: Place Why Here? Why Now?
13. SIAHPL_160307_066.JPG: Invention How was it invented?
14. SIAHPL_160307_073.JPG: Disney, Early Adopter
15. SIAHPL_160307_075.JPG: Colorful Connections
16. SIAHPL_160307_079.JPG: Rainbow's Ringmaster
17. SIAHPL_160307_083.JPG: Inside the Technicolor Camera
18. SIAHPL_160307_096.JPG: Enlarged Film Frame from The Wizard of Oz, 1938: Standardized color bars, like the ones on the card held by the Tin Man during the filming of The Wizard of Oz, were one way Technicolor ensured consistent color throughout a movie. Color directors and specially-trained cameramen also provide quality control on the set.
19. SIAHPL_160307_100.JPG: Script for The Wizard of Oz, 1938: These pages from an early draft of the script by lead screenwriter Noel Langley note the change from black-and-white to color and show that Dorothy's slippers were originally silver, as they were in L. Frank Baum's book. Technicolor changed that.
20. SIAHPL_160307_112.JPG: Lincoln Milling Machine, 1861
21. SIAHPL_160307_125.JPG: Hartford Factory town puts the pieces together in explosive new ways late 1800s
22. SIAHPL_160307_131.JPG: People Whose Idea Was It?
23. SIAHPL_160307_134.JPG: Place Why Here? Why Now?
24. SIAHPL_160307_137.JPG: Invention How was it invented?
25. SIAHPL_160307_141.JPG: One Hartford Factory... Many Different Products
26. SIAHPL_160307_151.JPG: Weed "Family Favorite" Sewing Machine, about 1870s
27. SIAHPL_160307_160.JPG: Columbia Light Roadster, 1886
28. SIAHPL_160307_166.JPG: Colt's Patent Fire-Arms Manufacturing Company
29. SIAHPL_160307_180.JPG: Workers' Lives
30. SIAHPL_160307_185.JPG: Yankee Ingenuity
31. SIAHPL_160307_191.JPG: Mark Twain, Inventor
32. SIAHPL_160307_201.JPG: Medical Alley Tight-knit community of tinkerers keeps hearts ticking 1950s
33. SIAHPL_160307_205.JPG: People Whose Idea Was It?
34. SIAHPL_160307_211.JPG: Place Why Here? Why Now?
35. SIAHPL_160307_214.JPG: Invention How was it invented?
36. SIAHPL_160307_221.JPG: A Cardiac Connection
37. SIAHPL_160307_224.JPG: Medical Alley
38. SIAHPL_160307_230.JPG: Medtronic Beginnings
39. SIAHPL_160307_233.JPG: DeWall-Lillehei Bubble Oxygenator Reservoir Coil, 1955
40. SIAHPL_160307_239.JPG: Oxygenator
41. SIAHPL_160307_246.JPG: Medtronic 5800 Model External Pacemaker, about 1972
42. SIAHPL_160307_251.JPG: Medtronic Chardack-Greatbatch Implantable Pacemaker, about 1961
43. SIAHPL_160307_257.JPG: Medtronic Elite II Model 7085 Pacemaker, about 1992
44. SIAHPL_160307_262.JPG: Medtronic EnPulse Model E2DR01 Pacemaker, about 2004
45. SIAHPL_160307_267.JPG: Medtronic Revo MRI SureScan Model RVD01 Pacemaker, about 2011
46. SIAHPL_160307_275.JPG: The Bronx Neighborhood streets create new beats 1970s
47. SIAHPL_160307_279.JPG: People Whose Idea Was It?
48. SIAHPL_160307_282.JPG: Place Why Here? Why Now?
49. SIAHPL_160307_285.JPG: Invention How was it invented?
50. SIAHPL_160307_288.JPG: DJ Battles
51. SIAHPL_160307_295.JPG: "Bustin' Loose" Record by Chuck Brown and the Soul Searchers, 1978
52. SIAHPL_160307_300.JPG: The DJ's Equipment
53. SIAHPL_160307_314.JPG: Beyond the Bronx
54. SIAHPL_160307_320.JPG: Brotherly Ties
55. SIAHPL_160307_324.JPG: Sharp Multi-purpose Music System HK-9000 Boombox, about 1985
56. SIAHPL_160307_333.JPG: Silicon Valley Suburban Garage Hackers + Lab Researchers = Personal Computing 1970s-80s
57. SIAHPL_160307_335.JPG: People Whose Idea Was It?
58. SIAHPL_160307_338.JPG: Place Why Here? Why Now?
59. SIAHPL_160307_343.JPG: Invention How was it invented?
60. SIAHPL_160307_353.JPG: What's In a Name?
61. SIAHPL_160307_359.JPG: Intel C8080 8-bit Microprocessor, 1974: Intel's 8080 8-bit microprocessor contained 6,000 transistors. It was among the first microprocessors used in early personal computer kits, such as the MITS Altair 8800.
62. SIAHPL_160307_371.JPG: Iconic Machines
63. SIAHPL_160307_377.JPG: If it looks like a mouse
64. SIAHPL_160307_385.JPG: The First Mouse, 1964: This is the first mouse prototype, invented by Doulas Engelbart and built by Bill English at Stanford Research Institute (SRI).
65. SIAHPL_160307_389.JPG: Computer Phreaques Make More Exacting Lovers
66. SIAHPL_160307_391.JPG: Xerox Alto, 1973: The Xerox Alto was an experimental workstation, not a commercial product. It incorporated many now-standard features like a mouse, clickable windows, icons and menus, and cut-copy-paste editing.
67. SIAHPL_160307_396.JPG: Apple Macintosh, 1984: When the Apple Macintosh debuted in 1984 for $2,500, features such as the graphical user interface and mouse left the experimental realm and became commercially available for average customers.
68. SIAHPL_160307_402.JPG: MITS Altair 8800, 1975: The Altair 8800 ignited the personal computer boom. At $397 ($498 fully assembled), the kit was affordable and inspired tinkering among Silicon Valley's "homebrew" computer hobbyists.
69. SIAHPL_160307_411.JPG: MITS Altair 8800 Circuit Board, 1975: The Altair's open architecture encouraged experimentation. Hobbyists expanded the kit's capabilities by designing custom-built circuit boards to add a keyboard interface or extra memory.
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Description of Subject Matter: Places of Invention
July 1, 2015 – Ongoing
Sponsor: Lemelson Center
What kind of place stimulates creative minds and sparks a surge of invention and innovation? The answer may surprise you. Journey through time and place to discover the stories of people who lived, worked, played, collaborated, adapted, took risks, solved problems, and sometimes failed—all in the pursuit of something new. The exhibition examines what can happen when the right mix of inventive people, untapped resources, and inspiring surroundings come together.
Case studies include:
* precision manufacturing in Hartford, Connecticut, in the late 1800s
* Technicolor in Hollywood, California, in the 1930s
* medical innovations in Medical Alley, Minnesota, in the 1950s
* hip-hop’s birth in the Bronx, New York, in the 1970s
* the rise of the personal computer in Silicon Valley, California, in the 1970s and 1980s
* clean-energy innovations in Fort Collins, Colorado, in the 2010s
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