Browse Exhibits (5 total)

Forks: Not Just for Eating Cows

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Analyzing how people in the 19th century viewed anecdotal oddities from their region.

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Alden House Wooden Cup

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This wooden cup was made from the wood that was used to build the famous Alden House in Duxbury, Massachusetts. 

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Tree Fungus Carving

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Original carving of John Brown's house on tree fungus. 

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Peep-Sight Alidade: Mapping our World

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Examining the local and global persepectives afforded by Hall's scientific instruments.

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Vacuum Air Pump

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This is an air pump brought back from London by Frederick Hall, a professor at Middlebury College. It was used to suck out air to make the tube a vacuum space.

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