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Colonial period to modern day. This event is part of a twoday u. S. Capital Historical Society symposium. Its about an hour and 15 minutes. The keynote opening this particular symposium. We have paul finkelman. Those of you who come on a routine basis know paul well. Hes been our fearless leader for the past several years in helping to direct the symposium. Because of that, i feel like no introduction is needed. That old canard, but in pauls case, its really true. Ill just say that he comes to us from the university of saskatchewan to give you a sense of how far hes come to be with us today. H...

The millers house in the maryland countryside. For 200 years, people have dwelt email. In this house, farmed the fields, ground the grain, lived and died. How did they live . Even in america where nature is generous, life is hard. The energy of back and aching muscles plows the land, splits the rails, does the work. For more than a century, working energy is human and animal labor toiling from dawn til dusk. From the beginning when even windmills and water mills were few and far between, people have had to manage for themselves. Life is good. But even until the very end, hands are never idle. ...

Thousands of curious onlookers are watching the solar eclipse on the National Mall and elsewhere in the D.C. area on Monday afternoon as extraterrestrial event’s peak nears.

The Edith was one of many famous ships built by the renowned Boston merchant Robert B. Forbes. It was a screw steamer commissioned in 1844 by Forbes to use in

Here in the early decades of the twenty-first century, steam turbines can still be found (though they are almost never seen) but steam piston engines are archaic relics. Nearly every moving machine that we see—cars, trucks, lawnmowers, the aircraft in the sky and the boats in the water—derives its power directly from the combustion of…