Technology & Innovation

Featuring iconic vehicles from Mario Andretti’s Indy 500 winning race car to the Sharp DR 90 Nemesis, Nation of Speed paints a portrait of human ingenuity—the technology developed to propel people faster and faster—and explores how the pursuit .... Shortened snippet. View full page for more details.

This exhibition presents young visitors with really big money; that is, money that is large in size, quantity, or denomination. It features striking objects from the National Numismatic Collection, such as Swedish plate money, German billion-.... Shortened snippet. View full page for more details.

Watch from the mezzanine as museum specialists reconstruct, repair, and preserve the historic aircraft, spacecraft, and other treasures in the National Air and Space Museum's collection. The Mary Baker Engen Restoration Hangar is spacious .... Shortened snippet. View full page for more details.

Getting to the top in business is always tough, and for women tougher yet. While women are inventive, driven, and great managers they often face discrimination and cultural boulders blocking their path. For the few women that do get to the .... Shortened snippet. View full page for more details.

America's Listening tells the story of recorded sound and innovations that contributed to how we consume music and movies today, with objects including Thomas Edison’s phonograph, Alexander Graham Bell’s graphophone, and Apple’s iPod.

In the early 1900s farmers switched from horses to tractors. While much of the world continued to rely on human brawn or draft animals, Americans adopted the new technology of gasoline-powered tractors. The development and use of gasoline-.... Shortened snippet. View full page for more details.

From the halls of Congress to the community centers in our smallest towns, America was and continues to be built by the participation of its people. Wallace H. Coulter Unity Square, at the heart of NMAH’s second floor transformation, is where .... Shortened snippet. View full page for more details.

The invention of the balloon struck the men and women of the late 18th century like a thunderbolt. From August to December 1783 enormous crowds gathered to watch one balloon after another rise above the Paris rooftops, carrying the first human .... Shortened snippet. View full page for more details.