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Detail of cover of a brochure showing different types of egg crates, about 1900
Blog

Egg-citing Inventions

The egg carton traces its origins to the early 20th century, with inventors from Great Britain, Canada, and the United States contributing to its evolution.

Kretchmer company print ad for bee supplies
Blog

Bee Hives Buzzing with Invention

Edward Kretchmer was born into a family of beekeepers and became an inventor and entrepreneur focused on the needs of his buzzing friends.

Title page of Hopkins’s address to manufacturers
Blog

Licensing the First US Patent

Inventions do not sell themselves.

Computer-generated sketch of tree picker machine
DO Try This at Home!

Design a 21st Century Farming Device

What types of farming will your device be used for? Who will use your invention?

Yellow plastic hard hat with solar-powered propeller on top, souvenir from, Knoxville World’s Fair, 1982
Invention Stories

Inventive Minds: Inventing Green

Inventive Minds: Inventing Green features the stories of historic and contemporary inventors whose work on socially-responsible technologies creates profound change for the common good.

Photograph of morel mushrooms
Invention Stories

Fungi in Focus

Do recent innovations using mushrooms have the promise to save the world?

Trade card, Skandia Plow Company, 1887. (AC0060-0000026-01) (front-apple)
Invention Stories

How 'Bout That Apple?

An anthropomorphic apple wearing slippers, printed in bright yellow, orange, and blue tones, promoted the iron lever harrow sold by Skandia Plow Company in the 1890s.

Stock photo of tomatoes
Places of Invention

Inventing the Modern Organic Farm

Without Eliot Coleman's innovations, the White House probably wouldn’t be growing greens in December.

Warren Belasco
Beyond Words

Podcast: Warren Belasco Studies Food for Tomorrow

Professor Warren Belasco traces a history of the “future” of food.

Ian Cheney speaks at the 2010 symposium, Food for Tomorrow
Beyond Words

Podcast: Documentary Filmmaker Ian Cheney Imagines a Future Food System

Cheney’s film and food project, Truck Farm, profiles inventive urban farmers.

Lemelson Lightbulb Graphic Identity
Invention Stories

Bittersweet Harvest

On September 9, 2009, Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis came to the National Museum of American History to open a new exhibition, Bittersweet Harvest: The Bracero Program 1942–1964.

Lester Brown
Beyond Words

Podcast: Lester Brown's Agricultural Roots May Solve Today's Environmental Problems

Lester Brown draws on his agricultural past to envision a sustainable future for the global environment.

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Archives

Allis-Chalmers Corporation Records, 1847-1988

Inventor Name Allis-Chalmers Corporation

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Archives

Bobcat Company Records, 1940s-2009

Inventor Name Keller, Louis and Cyril

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Archives

Campbell Farming Corporation Records, 1918-1975

Inventor Name Unknown

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Archives

J. A. Jamieson Fonds, 1888-1931, 1961

Inventor Name Jamieson, J.A. Repository Archives of Ontario77 Grenville Street, Unit 300Toronto, ONM5S 1B3Canada416-327-16001-800-668-9933 (Toll-free number-Ontario only)www.archives.gov.on.ca

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Archives

St. Lawrence Starch Company Patent and Trademark Files, 1897-1987

Inventor Name Unknown Repository Archives of Ontario77 Grenville Street, Unit 300Toronto, ONM5S 1B3Canada416-327-16001-800-668-9933 (Toll-free number-Ontario only)www.archives.gov.on.ca

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Archives

Government of Canada Department of Agriculture Fonds, 1845-1990

Inventor Name unknown Repository Library and Archives Canada395 Wellington StreetOttawa, ON K1A 0N4CANADAReference: 613-996-5115 or 1-866-578-7777 (toll free in Canada and the US)

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Archives

F.J. McCann Fonds, 1880-1964

Inventor Name McCann, F.J. Repository Provincial Archives of Alberta8555 Roper RoadEdmonton, AlbertaT6E 5W1780-427-1750www.tprc.alberta.ca/archives/default.aspx

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Archives

Kenneth Stuart fonds, 1931-1943

Inventor Name Stuart, Kenneth Repository Provincial Archives of Alberta8555 Roper RoadEdmonton, AlbertaT6E 5W1780-427-1750www.tprc.alberta.ca/archives/default.aspx

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