America's Scientific Treasures: A Travel Companion

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Whether you are planning a road trip or looking to engage with history from the comfort of your couch, the second edition of America's Scientific Treasures is sure to satisfy your craving for scientific and technologic history. Stephen M. Cohen and Brenda H. Cohen, a mother-son pair, take readers through countless museums, arboretums, zoos, national parks, planetariums, natural and technological sites, and the homes of a few scientists in this exciting volume. The two combine their expertise in chemistry and history, making this an educational travel guide for science and technology enthusiasts. The book is split into nine geographic regions and organized by state, and it includes how to get to each place, whom to contact, whether it is handicapped-accessible, and even where you can grab a bite to eat nearby. Cohen and Cohen provide the history and significance of each location, plus they offer images for notable locations like the African Savanna at the San Francisco Zoo & Gardens and the Smithsonian Arctic Studies Center in the Anchorage Museum. The resulting book is a navigable travel guide perfect for any science or technology enthusiast. So, what are you waiting for? Let's take a journey through the history of American sciences and engineering. Cover Half title Blank America’s Scientific Treasures Copyright Contents Preface to the Second Edition 1. New England Connecticut Bristol American Clock and Watch Museum Mystic Mystic Aquarium Mystic Seaport: The Museum of America and the Sea New Haven Peabody Museum of Natural History Maine Augusta Maine State Museum Bangor Cole Land Transportation Museum Bath Maine Maritime Museum Brunswick Peary-​MacMillan Arctic Museum Freeport The Desert of Maine Kennebunkport Seashore Trolley Museum Massachusetts Boston Museum of Science New England Aquarium Brookline Frederick Law Olmsted National Historic Site Cambridge and Boston Harvard Museums of Science and Culture, Warren Anatomical Museum, and Arnold Arboretum The Harvard Museum of Natural History Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology Harvard Semitic Museum Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments Arnold Arboretum and Warren Anatomical Museum Lowell Lowell National Historical Park and Lowell Heritage State Park Nantucket Maria Mitchell Association Whaling Museum New Bedford New Bedford Whaling Museum Plymouth Plimoth Plantation Saugus Saugus Iron Works National Historic Site Springfield Springfield Armory National Historic Site Sturbridge Old Sturbridge Village New Hampshire Canterbury Canterbury Shaker Village North Salem America’s Stonehenge Rhode Island Pawtucket Old Slater Mill National Historic Landmark Vermont Rutland New England Maple Museum St. Johnsbury The Fairbanks Museum and Planetarium Windsor American Precision Museum Woodstock Billings Farm and Museum and Marsh-​Billings-​Rockefeller National Historical Park 2. Mid-​Atlantic Delaware Dover Johnson Victrola Museum Wilmington Delaware Museum of Natural History Hagley Museum and Library Maryland Annapolis Junction National Cryptologic Museum Baltimore Baltimore Museum of Industry B&O Railroad Museum National Aquarium Linthicum National Electronics Museum Silver Spring National Museum of Health and Medicine St. Michaels Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum New Jersey Ewing The Sarnoff Collection Morristown Historic Speedwell Ogdensburg and Franklin The Sterling Hill Mining Museum and the Franklin Mineral Museum The Sterling Hill Mining Museum Franklin Mineral Museum Roebling Roebling Museum Wall InfoAge Science History Learning Center West Orange Thomas Edison National Historical Park New York Albany New York State Museum Corning Corning Museum of Glass Hammondsport Glenn H. Curtiss Museum Mount Lebanon Shaker Museum and Library New York American Museum of Natural History Brooklyn Botanic Garden Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum Metropolitan Museum of Art The New York Botanical Garden Staten Island Museum Wildlife Conservation Society Bronx Zoo Central Park Zoo Prospect Park Zoo New York Aquarium Queens Zoo Oyster Bay Planting Fields Arboretum State Historic Park Rhinebeck Old Rhinebeck Aerodrome Rochester George Eastman Museum Syracuse Erie Canal Museum Pennsylvania Columbia National Watch & Clock Museum Cornwall Cornwall Iron Furnace Doylestown The Mercer Mile: Mercer Museum, Moravian Pottery and Tile Works, and Fonthill Elverson Hopewell Furnace National Historic Site Northumberland Joseph Priestley House Philadelphia Bartram’s Garden College of Physicians of Philadelphia and the Mütter Museum The Franklin Institute Pennsylvania Hospital Philadelphia Zoo Science History Institute Wagner Free Institute of Science Pittsburgh Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh Carnegie Museum of Natural History Carnegie Science Center Pittsburgh Zoo & PPG Aquarium Scranton Pennsylvania Anthracite Heritage Museum and Scranton Iron Furnaces, and the Lackawanna Coal Mine Steamtown National Historic Site Titusville Drake Well Museum and Park York Harley-​Davidson, Inc. Washington, DC Bureau of Engraving and Printing Smithsonian Institution Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute 3. Southeast Alabama Birmingham Sloss Furnaces National Historic Landmark Tuskegee Tuskegee Institute National Historic Site Florida Fort Myers Edison and Ford Winter Estates Homestead Everglades National Park Key Largo John Pennekamp Coral Reef State Park Miami Phillip and Patricia Frost Museum of Science Miami Seaquarium Tampa Busch Gardens Tampa Titusville Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex, Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge, and Canaveral National Seashore Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge and Canaveral National Seashore Georgia Atlanta Atlanta Botanical Garden Fernbank Science Center and Fernbank Museum of Natural History Fernbank Museum of Natural History Fernbank Science Center Brunswick Hofwyl-​Broadfield Plantation State Historic Site Jefferson Crawford W. Long Museum North Carolina Asheboro North Carolina Zoological Park Charlotte Discovery Place Discovery Place Science Discovery Place Nature Kill Devil Hills Wright Brothers National Memorial Raleigh North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences South Carolina Charleston Middleton Place Georgetown The Rice Museum Virginia Alexandria Stabler-​Leadbeater Apothecary Museum Chantilly Steven F. Udvar-​Hazy Center Charlottesville Monticello Fort Eustis U.S. Army Transportation Museum Hampton Virginia Air and Space Center Luray Shenandoah National Park Newport News Mariners’ Museum and Park Virginia Beach Virginia Aquarium & Marine Science Center Williamsburg Colonial Williamsburg Jamestown Settlement and Historic Jamestowne Jamestown Settlement Historic Jamestowne West Virginia Milton Blenko Glass Company 4. Mississippi Valley Arkansas Hot Springs Hot Springs National Park Kentucky Lexington Kentucky Horse Park and American Saddlebred Museum Kentucky Horse Park American Saddlebred Museum Monroe Moosnick Medical and Science Museum and Hopemont Monroe Moosnick Medical and Science Museum Hopemont Louisville Louisville Zoological Gardens Museum of the American Printing House for the Blind WaterWorks Museum Nicholasville Harry C. Miller Lock Collection Louisiana New Orleans New Orleans Pharmacy Museum The Audubon Nature Institute Audubon Aquarium of the Americas Audubon Zoo Audubon Louisiana Nature Center Audubon Butterfly Garden and Insectarium Mississippi Jackson Mississippi Agriculture and Forestry Museum and the National Agriculture Aviation Museum Tennessee Memphis Mississippi River Museum Oak Ridge American Museum of Science and Energy and Oak Ridge Site–​Manhattan Project National Historical Park 5. Midwest Illinois Batavia Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory Brookfield Brookfield Zoo Chicago Adler Planetarium Field Museum of Natural History International Museum of Surgical Science John G. Shedd Aquarium Museum of Science and Industry Indiana Indianapolis Indiana Medical History Museum Muncie National Model Aviation Museum Iowa Waterloo John Deere Company Michigan Bloomfield Hills Cranbrook Institute of Science Dearborn The Henry Ford Henry Ford Museum of American Innovation Greenfield Village Ford Rouge Factory Tour Negaunee Michigan Iron Industry Museum Minnesota Grand Rapids Forest History Center Soudan, Chisholm, and Hibbing Lake Vermilion–​Soudan Underground Mine State Park, Minnesota Discovery Center, and the Hull-​Rust Mahoning Mine Lake Vermilion–​Soudan Underground Mine State Park Minnesota Discovery Center Hull-​Rust Mahoning Mine St. Paul Science Center of Minnesota and Mississippi River Visitor Center Science Center of Minnesota Mississippi River Visitor Center Ohio Cleveland Dittrick Medical History Center Dayton Carillon Historical Park New Bremen The Bicycle Museum of America Toledo National Museum of the Great Lakes Wright-​Patterson Air Force Base National Museum of the United States Air Force Wisconsin Appleton Paper Discovery Center Ashwaubenon National Railroad Museum Madison University of Wisconsin–​Madison Geology Museum Manitowoc Wisconsin Maritime Museum Milwaukee Discovery World Milwaukee Public Museum Prairie du Chien Fort Crawford Museum 6. Great Plains Kansas Bonner Springs National Agricultural Center and Hall of Fame Hutchinson Cosmosphere International Science Education Center & Space Museum Lawrence KU Natural History Museum Overland Park Museum at Prairiefire Wichita Sedgwick County Zoo Missouri Diamond George Washington Carver National Monument St. Joseph Glore Psychiatric Museum St. Louis Missouri Botanical Garden Saint Louis Science Center Saint Louis Zoo Nebraska Hastings Hastings Museum Lincoln University of Nebraska State Museum North Dakota Medora Theodore Roosevelt National Park Oklahoma Bartlesville Woolaroc Museum & Wildlife Preserve Oklahoma City Science Museum Oklahoma South Dakota Custer Jewel Cave National Monument Hot Springs Mammoth Site Lead Black Hills Mining Museum and Sanford Lab Homestake Visitor Center Black Hills Mining Museum Sanford Lab Homestake Visitor Center 7. Southwest Arizona Flagstaff Lowell Observatory Sunset Crater Volcano National Monument and Wupatki National Monument Sunset Crater Volcano National Monument Wupatki National Monument Grand Canyon Petrified Forest National Park Grand Canyon, Arizona; Springdale, Utah; and Bryce, Utah Grand Canyon, Zion, and Bryce Canyon National Parks Grand Canyon National Park Zion National Park Bryce Canyon National Park Oracle University of Arizona Biosphere 2 Phoenix Desert Botanical Garden Musical Instrument Museum Phoenix Zoo Sahuarita Titan Missile Museum Superior Boyce Thompson Arboretum Tucson Arizona-​Sonora Desert Museum Kitt Peak National Observatory Pima Air & Space Museum Nevada Hoover Dam Hoover Dam Reno University of Nevada, Reno, and Rancho San Rafael Regional Park W. M. Keck Earth Science and Mineral Engineering Museum Fleischmann Planetarium and Science Center Wilbur D. May Botanical Garden and Arboretum New Mexico Albuquerque The National Museum of Nuclear Science & History New Mexico Museum of Natural Science and History Los Alamos Bradbury Science Museum Texas Beaumont Edison Museum Spindletop Gladys City Boomtown and Texas Energy Museum Spindletop Gladys City Boomtown Texas Energy Museum Fort Sam Houston U.S. Army Medical Department Museum Fort Worth Fort Worth Zoo Galveston Moody Gardens Houston Houston Museum of Natural Science Space Center Houston The Printing Museum San Antonio Natural Bridge Caverns San Antonio Botanical Garden San Antonio Zoo Utah Bryce Bryce Canyon National Park Salt Lake City Natural History Museum of Utah Springdale Zion National Park 8. Rocky Mountains Colorado Boulder National Center for Atmospheric Research Mesa Lab Visitor Center Colorado Springs Cheyenne Mountain Zoo Colorado Springs Pioneers Museum Denver Denver Botanic Gardens Denver Museum of Nature & Science Denver Zoo Denver and Georgetown History Colorado Center and Georgetown Loop Railroad® & Mining Park History Colorado Center Georgetown Loop Railroad® & Mining Park Estes Park Rocky Mountain National Park Golden and Idaho Springs, Colorado Mines Museum of Earth Science and Edgar Mine Mines Museum of Earth Science Edgar Mine Idaho Pocatello Idaho Museum of Natural History Montana Bozeman Museum of the Rockies Gardiner Yellowstone National Park Wyoming Yellowstone National Park Yellowstone National Park 9. Pacific Alaska Anchorage Anchorage Museum Fairbanks University of Alaska Museum of the North Haines Hammer Museum California Arcadia Los Angeles County Arboretum and Botanic Garden Escondido San Diego Zoo Safari Park La Jolla Birch Aquarium at Scripps Los Angeles Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County and La Brea Tar Pits Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County La Brea Tar Pits Mariposa California State Mining and Mineral Museum Mineral Lassen Volcanic National Park Monterey Monterey Bay Aquarium Mount Hamilton Lick Observatory Mountain View Computer History Museum Oakland Oakland Museum of California Pasadena Mount Wilson Observatory Sacramento California State Railroad Museum San Diego San Diego Air & Space Museum San Diego Zoo San Francisco Cable Car Museum California Academy of Sciences Exploratorium San Francisco Botanical Garden San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park San Francisco Zoo & Gardens San Marino The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens Santa Rosa Luther Burbank Home & Gardens Tulelake Lava Beds National Monument Yosemite National Park Yosemite National Park Hawai‘i Hawaii National Park Hawai‘i Volcanoes National Park Hilo ‘Imiloa Astronomy Center of Hawai‘i Pacific Tsunami Museum Honolulu Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum Oregon Astoria Fort Clatsop & Visitor Center Cave Junction Oregon Caves National Monument & Preserve Florence Sea Lion Caves Portland Oregon Zoo Winston Wildlife Safari Washington Ashford Mount Rainier National Park Castle Rock Mount St. Helens National Volcanic Monument Grand Coulee Grand Coulee Dam Mukilteo Future of Flight Aviation Center & Boeing Tour Seattle Washington Park Arboretum Woodland Park Zoo Seattle and Everett Museum of Flight Vantage Gingko Petrified Forest Registered Trademarks Index