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Linda
Hall Library
of Science, Engineering & Technology
THIS
TIME IT'S PERSONAL: Innovation in the Home
September
28 to March 16, 2012

The
Linda Hall Library's year-long celebration and examination of the
history of innovation continues with This Time It's Personal:
Innovation in Your Home, opening September 28, 2011.
Visitors to This Time It's Personal will be surprised to
discover technology's influence in every aspect of their lives from
the mundane (carpet fibers) to the sophisticated (laser lights in
television remote controls).
Various
galleries throughout the first floor of the Library will represent
rooms in a contemporary family home. The installation will include
a kitchen, living room, bedroom, bathroom, and garage. Curators
Nancy Green and Eric Ward highlight more than 65 household inventions
used daily, and illustrate how these items are the result of decades
- and sometimes centuries - of technological innovations.
Journal
articles, rare books, and patents from the Library's collection
will demonstrate the pathway of innovation for these common household
items. Visitors will leave with a sense that even a quiet night
at home can be a walk through the history of modern innovation.
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