USNM Curators Annual Reports - Technological Collections, 1888-1889

When you go to the National Museum of American History today, you can expect to see an exhibit detailing the development of U.S. transportation. In 1888 this was a brand-new concept, and the talk of the Smithsonian's technological collections department. Help other volunteers transcribe this report and learn more about what the Technological Collections curator described as "an object lesson of the development, step by step, of our great systems of transportation," the first yet of its kind.