259 results for: Innovation and Invention
Dress, "3.21" from FEMAIL, 2017
Designers Janelle Abbott (Seattle) and Camilla Carper (Los Angeles) create imaginative garments under the name FEMAIL by mailing items back and forth. Calling the process “reactive collaboration,” they add and subtract elements in turn until the piece feels complete. This dress incorporates a Pike Place Market umbrella Abbott found abandoned outside her studio.
ID Number:2019.22.1
Date:2017
Board game, "Stock Block Seattle!" (c) 1976
Seattle inventor, John F. Majors, designed and distributed this game through J.F.M. Game Company. He also created similar game boards for may other cities in the US, Canada, and beyond. The idea of the game is to purchase, trade and sell stock certificates and shares of local landmark buildings with the goal of liquidating your competitors on the market. This…
ID Number:2019.29.1
Date:1976
Campaign button, "Walt Crowley City Council," 1977
Walter Crowley (1947-2007) was a Seattle public figure and political celebrity. Deeply involved in the social and political movements of the 1960s, he later became known for his work as a local historian. He ran unsuccessfully for Seattle City Council in 1977.
ID Number:2019.40.8
Date:Circa 1970
Prototype thermal immersion circulator for heating water and cooking at an accurate and stable temperature, ca. 2010
A thermal immersion circulator is an electrically powered device that circulates and heats a warm fluid kept at an accurate and stable temperature. It is used in various processes, but starting in the late twentieth century, these devices have also been used for sous-vide food cooking, a method that uses airtight plastic bags in a water bath at regulated temperatures…
ID Number:2019.62.1
Date:Circa 2010
Sansaire Sous Vide cooking machine, 2016
The Sansaire Sous Vide is an immersion circulator comprised of heating coils, thermometer, microcontroller and water-circulating motor that work to maintain a precise and accurate temperature to properly cook food in a water bath. Scott Heimendinger, who previously worked at IBM and Microsoft and was a Director of Applied Research at Modernist Cuisine, developed and created this commercially successful machine…
ID Number:2019.62.2
Date:2016
Rotablator prototype A19, invented by Dr. David Auth and Michael Slota, 1988
Michael Slota (1958-2018) helped invent the Rotablator in the 1980s. Mike was originally a machinist from the east coast where he worked as a military contractor designing missiles. He came out to Seattle where he worked at Heart Technology in Bellevue and he met University of Washington professor and inventor Dr. David Auth. Mike worked under the UW professor to…
ID Number:2019.83.1
Date:1988
Rotablator production model, invented by Dr. David Auth and Michael Slota, 2006
Michael Slota (1958-2018) helped invent the Rotablator in the 1980s. Mike was originally a machinist from the east coast where he worked as a military contractor designing missiles. He came out to Seattle where he worked at Heart Technology in Bellevue and he met University of Washington professor and inventor Dr. David Auth. Mike worked under the UW professor to…
ID Number:2019.83.2
Date:2006
Rotablator cross section display model, invented by Dr. David Auth and Michael Slota, 2006
Michael Slota (1958-2018) helped invent the Rotablator in the 1980s. Mike was originally a machinist from the east coast where he worked as a military contractor designing missiles. He came out to Seattle where he worked at Heart Technology in Bellevue and he met University of Washington professor and inventor Dr. David Auth. Mike worked under the UW professor to…
ID Number:2019.83.RefModel
Date:2006
Bottle of Mapleine extract from Crescent Mfg. Co., ca. 1980
The Crescent Manufacturing Company was founded in Seattle, Washington, in 1883 as Larsen Extract Company. In 1905, a Crescent company chemist and salesman concocted an imitation maple flavoring dubbed Mapleine. By the early twentieth century, Crescent was manufacturing 75 different extracts including Mapleine, as well as importing spices, coffee, and nuts. Crescent was sold to McCormick and Company in 1989,…
ID Number:2019.92.1
Date:Circa 1980
Candy tin for Brown & Haley Almond Roca candies, ca. 1980
Brown & Haley, founded in Tacoma and still in operation as of 2019, began as a candy company before WWI but hit it big with the invention of Almond Roca in 1923. In 1927, they began packaging it in a pink tin, which extended the shelf life. Besides the taste, it was the candy's ability to travel well and keep,…
ID Number:2019.Candy.01
Date:Circa 1980