259 results for: Innovation and Invention
Digitilt RPP (recorder, processor, printer) inclinometer and cable, 1981
The Digital RPP inclinometer is a tilt sensing device used to measure lateral displacement of earth or structures in various applications such as landslide monitoring, high-rise building pit excavations, bridge foundations, and more. The inclinometer was invented in the 1950s by Stanley D. Wilson, co-founder of the Slope Indicator Company (SINCO), which was established in Seattle in 1958. The 64K…
ID Number:2021.69.2
Date:1981
Seattle Flu Study influenza test kit, 2019
The Seattle Flu Study was started in 2017 and led by the Brotman Baty Institute for Precision Medicine (a collaboration between the University of Washington, Seattle Children’s Hospital, and Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center). A chief goal is the surveillance of respiratory pathogens active in the city. For winter 2019-2020, the Seattle Flu Study planned to survey and swab people…
ID Number:2021.70.1
Date:2019
Painted mask made by Wolf Delux, aka Malcolm Procter, 2021
Malcolm Procter, who goes by the artist name of Wolf Delux, painted this mask during the COVID-19 pandemic. His distinctive linework style is done with paint or bleach to create the desired effect on each item. Procter is a Black artist and was born and raised in Seattle. His work takes inspiration from many sources, including pop art, video games,…
ID Number:2021.72.2
Date:2021
Model of COVID-19 Vaccine developed by the University of Washington in 2020
This is a model of the vaccine developed by the Institute for Protein Design (IPD) at the University of Washington. This vaccine uses a structure-based vaccine design technique which was developed by the King Lab (named for lead Neil King) at the IPD. The red is the receptor binding domain, part of the spike of the SARS-COVID virus. This is…
ID Number:2021.80.1
Date:2019-2021
Column used for vaccine development at the University of Washington in 2020
This device was used in vaccine development at the Institute for Protein Design (IPD) at the University of Washington, with scientists Alexandra (Lexi) Walls and Brooke Fiala as project leads. Fiala used this column to prepare (or purify) the vaccine. This particular vaccine uses a structure-based vaccine design technique which was developed by the King Lab (named for lead Neil…
ID Number:2021.80.2
Date:2019
Pipette used for vaccine development at the University of Washington in 2020
This device was used in vaccine development at the Institute for Protein Design (IPD) at the University of Washington, with scientists Alexandra (Lexi) Walls and Brooke Fiala as project leads. Fiala used this pipette in the production of the vaccine which uses a structure-based vaccine design technique developed by the King Lab (named for lead Neil King) at the IPD.…
ID Number:2021.80.3
Date:2019
Grid box holder used for vaccine development at the University of Washington in 2020
These grid box holders were used in vaccine development at the Institute for Protein Design (IPD) at the University of Washington. They contain tiny pieces of copper coated in carbon which enables one to look at proteins under an electron microscope and assure that the development is proceeding as expected. The two head scientists of the project were Alexandra (Lexi)…
ID Number:2021.80.4
Date:2019
Grid box holder used for vaccine development at the University of Washington in 2020
These grid box holders were used in vaccine development at the Institute for Protein Design (IPD) at the University of Washington. They contain tiny pieces of copper coated in carbon which enables one to look at proteins under an electron microscope and assure that the development is proceeding as expected. The two head scientists of the project were Alexandra (Lexi)…
ID Number:2021.80.5
Date:2019
Cartridge Kodak No. 4 folding camera used by C. C. Maring in Seattle, ca. 1895
C.C. Maring came to Seattle around 1890 and established the first photo engraving and printing business west of the Mississippi. His first shop was Maring & Ladd, then a man named Blake who worked at the shop, bought into it, and it became Maring & Blake. The business was located on the floor above the Crescent Manufacturing Company at the…
ID Number:2021.82.1
Date:Circa 1895
Rayfoto Recorder invented by Austin Cooley, ca. 1927
Austin Cooley (1900-1993) invented the Rayfoto (or radio photograph) in 1927. Cooley was born in Seattle and experimented in radio technology early on, even installing the first radio station in a small town in Alaska at the age of 16 before attending the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) as a college student. The Rayfoto radio picture receiver was, essentially, the…
ID Number:2022.24.1
Date:Circa 1927