259 results for: Innovation and Invention
Pair of Rainier Old Stock Ale beer cans from Boeing Wind Tunnel, ca. 1950s
Boeing constructed a supersonic twin sphere wind tunnel in the mid-1950s for the Dyna-Soar X-20, the SST (Supersonic Transport), and other projects. When the spheres were being demolished, they discovered over 3 million of these tin cans. They were used to help with temperature control in the giant spheres as air was pumped in and rushed out. This process was…
ID Number:2017.6.2
Date:Circa 1950
Pair of Lucky Lager beer cans from Boeing Wind Tunnel, ca. 1950s
Boeing constructed a supersonic twin sphere wind tunnel in the mid-1950s for the Dyna-Soar X-20, the SST (Supersonic Transport), and other projects. When the spheres were being demolished, they discovered over 3 million of these tin cans. They were used to help with temperature control in the giant spheres as air was pumped in and rushed out. This process was…
ID Number:2017.6.3
Date:Circa 1950
Olympia Beer cans from Boeing Wind Tunnel, ca. 1934
Boeing constructed a supersonic twin sphere wind tunnel in the mid-1950s for the Dyna-Soar X-20, the SST (Supersonic Transport), and other projects. When the spheres were being demolished, they discovered over 3 million of these tin cans. They were used to help with temperature control in the giant spheres as air was pumped in and rushed out. This process was…
ID Number:2017.6.4
Date:1934
Pair of Bardahl cans from Boeing Wind Tunnel, ca. 1950s
Boeing constructed a supersonic twin sphere wind tunnel in the mid-1950s for the Dyna-Soar X-20, the SST (Supersonic Transport), and other projects. When the spheres were being demolished, they discovered over 3 million of these tin cans. They were used to help with temperature control in the giant spheres as air was pumped in and rushed out. This process was…
ID Number:2017.6.6
Date:Circa 1950
DNA Synthesizer 3900, designed and built in 1998
This DNA Synthesizer was designed by Gary McLuen, a local engineer and innovator, and it was used for the human genome project (1984-2003). It is one of the first and most successful automated DNA synthesizers on the market.
ID Number:2017.32.1
Date:1998
Set of 2 bottles, "Love Yourself Massage Oil" from Cannabis Basics, 2017
Beginning in 1995, Aimee "Ah" Warner made topical health and beauty products in her lab at home and sold them locally. These were some of the first topical products in Washington state's legal medical marijuana industry and they are the first topical cannabis products to be sold on the mainstream market in the country.
ID Number:2017.37.1
Date:2017
Set of 2 jars, "Sole's Desire Repair Cream" from Cannabis Basics, 2017
Beginning in 1995, Aimee "Ah" Warner made topical health and beauty products in her lab at home and sold them locally. These were some of the first topical products in Washington state's legal medical marijuana industry and they are the first topical cannabis products to be sold on the mainstream market in the country.
ID Number:2017.37.2
Date:2017
Set of 2 jars, "XXX Rescue Butter" from Cannabis Basics, 2017
Beginning in 1995, Aimee "Ah" Warner made topical health and beauty products in her lab at home and sold them locally. These were some of the first topical products in Washington state's legal medical marijuana industry and they are the first topical cannabis products to be sold on the mainstream market in the country.
ID Number:2017.37.3
Date:2017
Container for "The Remedy Pain Stick", from Cannabis Basics, 2017
Beginning in 1995, Aimee "Ah" Warner made topical health and beauty products in her lab at home and sold them locally. These were some of the first topical products in Washington state's legal medical marijuana industry and they are the first topical cannabis products to be sold on the mainstream market in the country.
ID Number:2017.37.4
Date:2017
Container for "Naked Lip Butter", from Cannabis Basics, 2017
Beginning in 1995, Aimee "Ah" Warner made topical health and beauty products in her lab at home and sold them locally. These were some of the first topical products in Washington state's legal medical marijuana industry and they are the first topical cannabis products to be sold on the mainstream market in the country.
ID Number:2017.37.5
Date:2017