Science, Revolution, and the Birth of the Smithsonian
by
Heather Ewing
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2008
In the mid-1830s, the United States learned that it was the beneficiary of a strange and unprecedented bequest. An Englishman named James Smithson, who had never set foot in the U.S., had left all his fortune to found in Washington "an establishment for the increase and diffusion of knowledge...