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An incomplete ancient recipe for Tyrian purple recorded by Pliny the Elder was also consulted. By altering the percentage of sea salt in the dye vat and adding potash, he was able to successfully dye wool a deep purple colour. Recent research in organic electronics has shown that Tyrian purple is an ambipolar organic semiconductor. Transistors ...
The New-York Historical Society is an American history museum and library in New York City, along Central Park West between 76th and 77th Streets, on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. The society was founded in 1804 as New York's first museum. It presents exhibitions, public programs, and research that explore the history of New York and the ...
The National Museum of the American Indian–New York, the George Gustav Heye Center, is a branch of the National Museum of the American Indian at the Alexander Hamilton U.S. Custom House in Manhattan, New York City. [1] The museum is part of the Smithsonian Institution. The center features contemporary and historical exhibits of art and ...
The Museum of the City of New York ( MCNY) is a history and art museum in Manhattan, New York City, New York. It was founded by Henry Collins Brown, [1] [2] in 1923 [3] to preserve and present the history of New York City, and its people. It is located at 1220–1227 Fifth Avenue between East 103rd to 104th Streets, across from Central Park on ...
Colored Orphan Asylum in Midtown Manhattan in 1850. The Colored Orphan Asylum was an institution in New York City, open from 1836 to 1946. It housed on average four hundred children annually and was mostly managed by women. [1] Its first location was on Fifth Avenue between 42nd and 43rd Streets in Midtown Manhattan, a four-story building with ...
Located in Fort Schuyler, history of the US maritime industry including commercial shipping, the merchant marine, and the port of New York. Merchant's House Museum. Greenwich Village. Manhattan. Historic house. 19th-century family town home. Metropolitan Museum of Art. Museum Mile. Manhattan.
1 Centre Street, New York, New York 10007. Commission executive. Nancy G. Chaffetz, Commissioner. Key document. New York City Charter. Website. www .nyc .gov /csc. The New York City Civil Service Commission (CSC) is the local civil service commission of the NY State Civil Service Commission within the New York City government that hears appeals ...
The American Museum of Natural History ( AMNH) is a natural history museum on the Upper West Side of Manhattan in New York City. [5] Located in Theodore Roosevelt Park, across the street from Central Park, the museum complex comprises 21 interconnected buildings housing 45 permanent exhibition halls, in addition to a planetarium and a library.