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Cartoon-style drawing of a Jeep with legs, arms, eyes, and a mouth
Blog

Illustrating Invention

Illustrator Boris Artzybasheff brought machines to life.

Detail of Figure 1, US Patent 1,242,872, showing entrance signage
Blog

One-Way Supermarket Aisles

The return of an invention from the 1910s.

Lithographed color coffee labels by Price Bros. and Co.
Blog

Coffee in an Instant

Made in the cup at the table—instant coffee and one inventor's research

Pictogram trade card reading "A jar goes often to the well, but is broken at last"
Blog

Innovative Advertising and the Metamorphic Trade Card

Nineteenth-century advertisements that transform before your very eyes!

Patent tag for Paper box by Charles E. Bolchini, 1879.
Invention Stories

Boxed Up

Attributed to a factory mistake, the folding carton came on the scene in 1879 courtesy of the Robert Gair Company of Brooklyn, New York. Read more about the history of the folded carton, an item we encounter almost everyday.

Trade card, Skandia Plow Company, 1887. (AC0060-0000026-01) (front-apple)
Invention Stories

How 'Bout That Apple?

An anthropomorphic apple wearing slippers, printed in bright yellow, orange, and blue tones, promoted the iron lever harrow sold by Skandia Plow Company in the 1890s.

Invention Stories

Abracadabra!

Ajeeb, a ten-foot high, wax and papier-mâché mechanical wonder, won almost every game of chess and checkers it played.

Invention Stories

Remembering Apple’s “1984” Super Bowl Ad

Today marks the 30th anniversary of Apple’s famous “1984” television ad that aired on January 22, 1984 during the third quarter of the Super Bowl XVIII between the Los Angeles Raiders and Washington Redskins. Historian Eric Hintz describes how the “1984” ad and the introduction of the Apple Macintosh were key milestones both in the history of computing and the history of advertising.

Ron Popeil
Beyond Words

Podcast: Entrepreneur and Inventor, Ron Popeil

But wait! There’s more to television pitchman, Ron Popeil, than meets the eye.

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Douglas Leigh Papers, 1903-1999

Inventor Name Leigh, Douglas Repository Archives of American ArtReference Services/ILLSmithsonian InstitutionPO Box 37012Victor Building, Room 2200, MRC 937Washington, DC 20013-7012202- 275-2156

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