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Kenneth Spencer Research Library: Great Exhibition, 1851

For Students 9th - 10th
Online exhibit with details of the international exhibition held in Hyde Park in 1851, the Great Exhibition of the Industry of All Nations, a testament to industrial growth in the Victorian era.
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Virginia Historical Society

Virginia Historical Society: Waging War: The Battlefront: The First Modern War?

For Students 9th - 10th
Discusses some of the new military and other technologies that were used during the Civil War in Virginia.
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Smithsonian Institution

Lemelson Center: Invention Stories

For Students 9th - 10th
Six categories of inventions highlight the inventors in those categories and describe their sometimes world-changing inventions. Other inventions are not so critical, but nonetheless fascinating.
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Samuel Finley Breeze Morse

For Students 9th - 10th
Provides biographical information on Samuel Morse as well as information on his invention of the telegraph. (Pictures no longer load.)
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Smithsonian Institution

National Postal Museum: Famous Americans: Samuel Morse

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn brief information concerning Samuel Morse, inventor of the telegraph, who was featured on the two cent postage stamp.