Research & Collections News

The main goal of the museum’s inventor research project is to learn as much as we can about the people behind the patent models in our collection.

As soon as the back-to-school specials were cleared off the store shelves, big bags of candy, and spooky decorations filled their place.  The leaves are falling, the temperature is dropping, and people are starting to think about how they wil

“Where do I even begin?” That was the question I asked myself last April, eyeing up my very first assignment as Hagley’s new processing archivist. The boxes, stacked two-deep, stretched down an entire row of shelving—more than 500 of them!

“If there was ever a vigorous, 59 year old man who seemed to have an infinite capacity for enjoying himself and life, it is Ira Mosher.

This month's featured motion picture, A Case for Computers, was produced by Image Associates for IBM Corp. in 1983. The film opens with a narrator's summary:

In the 1960s, scientists at DuPont were working on a nylon, then called fiber Y, that more closely resembled natural silk in appearance and feel.  On June 27, 1968, this nylon, now renamed Qiana, was announced with simultaneous press conferen