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Science and Innovation Treasure Hunt

Science and Innovation
Who Said What?
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The Treasure Hunts are designed to immerse you in the collections...looking, listening, wondering, and learning! Each Treasure Hunt will take 15–20 minutes to complete.

Directions: Click on the highlighted URLs to complete each activity. Check out Teacher Ideas for related activities.

Alexander Graham Bell

Alexander Graham Bell

Alexander Graham Bell Family Papers at the Library of Congress
"Mr. Watson—come here—I want to see you."
—Alexander Graham Bell

Activity: Find a drawing of the first telephone. What date is on the drawing?

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/bellhtml/belltelph.html

Words and Deeds in American History

"Educate and inform the masses of people."
—Thomas Jefferson

Activity: What machine did Thomas Jefferson design for cooking?

http://lcweb2.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/mcc:@field(DOCID+@lit(mcc/027))

Thomas Jefferson

Samuel F. B. Morse

Samuel F. B. Morse

The Samuel Finley Breese Morse Family Papers

"What hath God Wrought?" — Samuel F. B. Morse

Activity: What was the only state east of the Mississippi
that was not connected by telegraph in 1853?

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/atthtml/morse6.html

Orville Wright

Orville Wright

Words and Deeds in American History

"For some years I have been afflicted with the belief that flight is possible to man." — Wilbur Wright

Activity: What newspaper exaggerated the facts about the first airplane flight?

http://lcweb2.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/mcc:
@field(DOCID+@lit(mcc/061))

Wilbur Wight

Wilbur Wright

Inventing Entertainment: the Early Motion Pictures and Sound Recordings of the Edison Companies

"I want a phonograph in every American home" — Thomas A. Edison

Activity: Listen to Aba Daba Honeymoon. What jungle animals are mentioned?

Click on Search from the American Memory home page. In the search box, type Aba Daba Honeymoon.

Activity: View Part 1 of the Buster Brown Series, Buster's Dog to the Rescue. What does Buster's dog do to help him?

Click on Search from the American Memory home page. In the search box, type Buster Brown.

Thomas Edison

Thomas Edison

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