Smithsonian Libraries

NEW: Cell Phone Audio Tours LIVE in Libraries' Gallery

The Libraries has been able to add a wonderful new feature to its exhibition gallery in the National Museum of American History. To try out the new tours for our current exhibition, Paper Engineering: Fold, Pull, Pop & Turn, dial the following phone numbers on your personal cell phone while strolling through the exhibition:

Dial 202-633-8000 #103 to hear an introduction to the exhibition

Dial 202-633-8000 #104 to hear commentary on Neue lebende Bilder: ein Ziehbilderbuch or New Living Pictures: A Pull-Picture Book

Dial 202-633-8000 #105 to hear commentary on The Falsehood of External Appearances, 1790

Dial 202-633-8000 #106 to hear commentary on Astronomicum Caesareum

Neue lebende Bilder: ein Ziehbilderbuch [New living pictures: A pull-picture-book]. Illustrations
and paper engineering by Lothar Meggendorfer. Verlag von Braun & Schneider, c.1880.

Come visit the museum and check out this great new feature!

—Susan Frampton

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Have You Seen it Yet?

The Libraries exhibition, Paper Engineering: Fold, Pull, Pop & Turn is still on display in the National Museum of American History. Stop by and see some fabulous examples of pop-up and movable books, from the 1600s to today.

—Elizabeth Periale, photo by Liz O'Brien

 

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Featuring: Moderne Technik

Featuring a title from the Libraries' pop-up book collection and current exhibition, Paper Engineering: Fold, Pull, Pop & Turn.

 How better to explain the workings of a locomotive, a steam engine, an automobile motor, or a pumping system than by using a series of flaps that, when opened gradually, reveal the inner workings of these complex machines? Moderne Technik provides a comprehensive view of the workings of the latest technological advances used in transportation and machines for industrial manufacturing of the early 20th century.

—Stephen Van Dyk

Moderne Technik. [Moderne technology]. Hans Blücher. Leipzig and Vienna: Bibliographisches Institut, 1912.