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Matthias William Baldwin (December 10, 1795 – September 7, 1866) was an American inventor and machinery manufacturer, specializing in the production of steam locomotives. Baldwin's small machine shop, established in 1825, grew to become Baldwin Locomotive Works , one of the largest and most successful locomotive manufacturing firms in the ...
The Olomana is a 3 ft (914 mm) narrow gauge 0-4-2 ST locomotive built by Baldwin Locomotive Works in 1883 for the Waimanalo Sugar Company in Hawaii. It is currently in the Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania, on loan from the Smithsonian Institution. It was the third self-propelled vehicle to operate in Hawaii. [1]
The Castle in April 1865 "The Castle" (built, 1847) on the National Mall: the institution's earliest building remains its headquarters.. In many ways, the origin of the Smithsonian Institution can be traced to a group of Washington citizens who, being "impressed with the importance of forming an association for promoting useful knowledge," met on June 28, 1816, to establish the Columbian ...
The Santa Cruz Railroad 3 is a narrow gauge steam locomotive in Washington D.C. It is one of three preserved Baldwin Class 8/18 C 4-4-0 locomotives in the United States, the other two being the North Pacific Coast Railroad No. 12, the "Sonoma" displayed at the California State Railroad Museum, and the Eureka and Palisade Railroad No. 4, "Eureka" which is privately owned, the latter of which it ...
The Smithsonian Institution Building (also known as "The Castle") was completed in 1855 to house an art gallery, a library, a chemical laboratory, lecture halls, museum galleries, and offices. [3] During this time the Smithsonian was a learning institution concerned mainly with enhancing science and less interested in being a museum.
The channel was launched as a joint venture of Showtime Networks and the Smithsonian Institution as Smithsonian On Demand in 2006, and later became Smithsonian Channel in 2007. [4] Smithsonian Channel Plus , a US$5 monthly subscription also offering access to the channel's past content library, and incorporating the former Smithsonian Earth ...
The Smithsonian's Board of Regents [4] established the Conservation Research Laboratory of the United States National Museum in 1963 in response to a growing need to support conservation of the entire Institution's collections. In 1965 the name of the laboratory was changed to the Conservation Analytical Laboratory (CAL).
The Arts and Industries Building is the second oldest (after The Castle) of the Smithsonian museums on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. Initially named the National Museum, it was built to provide the Smithsonian with its first proper facility for public display of its growing collections. [3]