USNM Curators Annual Reports - Physical Apparatus, 1890 - 1891

Have you ever had to organize what someone else has left behind? In 1846, physicist Joseph Henry was appointed as the founding Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. Guiding the Institution through its initial decades, he also continued to conduct and promote scientific research, acquiring a sizable amount of physical apparatus for use in studies of electricity and sound. Join other volunteers in transcribing this first report of the National Museum's curator of physical apparatus to see how he tackled this challenge and others as well.