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Posts Tagged ‘cartesian diver’

  • March 26, 2020
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CMoG Keeps You Busy: Things You Can Do at Home

Are you at home and in need of new sources of inspiration? Have you already exhausted your to-do list of house projects, cleaned the kitchen multiple times, finished several books, and asked everyone you know what’s good on Netflix? Well, … Read more →

  • Posted in: Conservation, Education, From the Collections, Rakow Library
  • September 15, 2017
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Curiosity highly gratified: Six weird and wonderful things to see at an itinerant glassworker’s show

Come one, come all, to see amazing feats of glassworking! For more than 300 years, talented, traveling glassworkers entertained and educated crowds on the art, science, and skill of glassmaking, and the dizzying array of wonders that could be made … Read more →

  • Posted in: Exhibitions, From the Collections, Rakow Library
  • April 4, 2017
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Making Cartesian Divers: Then and Now

We are making Cartesian divers at our Spring Break MakerSpace next week. Come join us and make your own! What is a Cartesian diver? A Cartesian diver is an object used to demonstrate the relationship between density and buoyancy. Density … Read more →

  • Posted in: Education, Programs, Rakow Library
  • December 19, 2016
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Recent Acquisition: Tilley’s Wonderful Mechanisms

To be seen in a neat Sitting Room, at 141 Broadway: the wonderful mechanisms of fancy glass blower J. Tilley. This early American broadside, ca. 1820, enumerates the delights New Yorkers could observe if they paid the 25-cent admission fee … Read more →

  • Posted in: Rakow Library, Recent Acquisitions
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