Contributors | |
Carbons to Computers is brought to you by the Smithsonian Office of Education, with generous support from Brother International Corporation. The project incorporates text and images from the following Smithsonian exhibitions, publications, and collections: | |
National Museum of American History: | |
Information Age: People, Information & Technology exhibition | |
Division of Information Technology and Society | |
Division of the History of Technology | |
Warshaw Collection at the Archives Center | |
Office of Public Affairs | |
Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum: | |
Applied Arts and Industrial Design Division | |
Good Offices and Beyond: The Evolution of the Workplace exhibition (1994-95) | |
Mechanical Brides: Women and Machines from Home to Office exhibition (1993) | |
Smithsonian Office of Education: | |
Carbons to Computers: The Changing American Office teaching kit (1989) | |
Special thanks goes to the following individuals: | |
Jill Bloomer, Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum Deborah Shinn, Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum Todd Olson, Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum Bill Worthington, National Museum of American History Peggy Kidwell, National Museum of American History Susan Strange, National Museum of American History Archives | |
Credits
Assistant Director Publications and
Electronic Media | |
Standards | |
Carbons to Computers meets the following Mid- Continent Regional Educational Laboratory (McREL) educational standards: | |
United States History Standard 16 | |
Understands how the rise of corporations, heavy industry, and mechanized farming transformed American society | |
United States History Standard 22 | |
Understands how the United States changed between the post-World War I years and the eve of the Great Depression | |
United States History Standard 26 | |
Understands the economic boom and social transformation of post-World War II United States | |
United States History Standard 31 | |
Understands economic, social, and cultural developments in the contemporary United States | |
Technology Standard 3 | |
Understands the relationships among science, technology, society, and the individual | |
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