Revolving Funds: Historic Preservation Gets a New Tool

Posted by on Nov 30, 2013 in | Comments Off on Revolving Funds: Historic Preservation Gets a New Tool Over the past seventy-five years, the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission has preserved Pennsylvania’s historic heritage through its sixty historic sites and museums. Across the Commonwealth, hundreds of other historic properties have also been maintained as house museums or community centers by local governments, historical societies and preservation organiza­tions. With the...
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Joseph Priestley’s Microscope

Posted by on Nov 20, 2013 in | Comments Off on Joseph Priestley’s Microscope The achievements of Joseph Priestley (1733–1804) have been committed to memory by generations of American schoolchildren, who for years listened as teachers credited him as the discoverer of oxygen, which he called “dephlogisticated air,” and the inventor of carbonated water. Much of the attention given to Priestley highlighted his scientific work, but his contributions to education, natural...
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