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May 2023: Science and Technology

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Science and Technology

Behind every modern invention is a spark of innovation that in some cases was lit back in the 19th century, an era of rapidly accelerating scientific discovery and invention. Significant developments in the fields of mathematics, physics, chemistry, biology, electricity, and metallurgy laid the groundwork for the technological advances of the 20th and now 21st centuries. Telling that history through objects that demonstrate that evolutionary link in their design and functionality over time is what great science and technology collections are made of.

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