What was the state-of-the-art in terms of cross-country transportation in 1888? How did transport technology evolve over the previous two hundred eighty years? The recently-acquired J.L Ringwalt work entitled Development of Transportation Systems in the United States… addresses those questions in detail. The work covers the entire spectrum of transportation of individuals and cargo, including […]
Select items from the John N. Warfield Collection in SC&A have been digitized, and these items now form the John N. Warfield Digital Collection. Warfield began his intellectual career studying electrical engineering and mathematics. This led him to work with early computer prototypes. Besides math and electrical engineering, Warfield became interested in group pathologies. He […]
More than 100 years before the age of jets, steam-powered trains and ships were the main high-speed movers of goods and people across the country. Travelers who wished to get from one place to another, and had the means to do so, generally preferred steam transport to horse-based travel. An important tool for planning […]
No matter what the result, this year’s presidential election will be remembered as an historic one. For more than two centuries Americans have participated in this very exercise and despite political and ideological divisions, engage each other in this important civil responsibility. In VOTE: Political Americana in Special Collections & Archives, SC&A takes a look […]
The David Pass papers have been processed and are available for use in SC&A. The collection documents Pass’s career at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden, the Urban Development Corporation in New York, and the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development in Washington, D.C. Contained in the collection are correspondence, oral […]
