. Annual report for the year ended June 30 .... United States National Museum. INTRODUCTION 7 The visitor approaching the building from Constitution Avenue will enter the first floor at street level. Here he will pass the information desk and rooms for checking coats and umbrellas and will encounter directory devices to guide him to special exhibits. Grouped at this entrance is a room for temporary exhibits, and a small auditorium where special events may be held even in the evening without opening more than a limited part of the building. This great exhibition floor is devoted to the collecti
. Annual report for the year ended June 30 .... United States National Museum. INTRODUCTION 7 The visitor approaching the building from Constitution Avenue will enter the first floor at street level. Here he will pass the information desk and rooms for checking coats and umbrellas and will encounter directory devices to guide him to special exhibits. Grouped at this entrance is a room for temporary exhibits, and a small auditorium where special events may be held even in the evening without opening more than a limited part of the building. This great exhibition floor is devoted to the collections relating to the history of science and technology. The visitor will be introduced to these by exhibits which demon- strate advances in pure science and their applications to engineering and industry. Here also a Foucault pendulum, suspended from a wire reaching to the upper floors of the building, will illustrate the rotation of the earth. Through the pendulum well in the ceiling of the first floor the visitor will have a glimpse of the flag hall above. The first floor has been designed to display Smithsonian collections totaling thousands of original objects including agricultural imple- ments and machines, woods and wood products, watercraft, automobiles and coaches, railroad locomotives and equipment, models of bridge and tunnel con- struction, power machines and engines, electrical and electronics machines and instruments, early typewriters, clocks and watches, hand and machine tools, physical and astronomical instruments, chemical apparatus, medical, pharma- ceutical and dental instruments, textiles and textile machines, equipment asso- ciated with the development of nuclear physics, simulated atomic reactors and. Original decorations are carefully restored on old agricultural implements being reconditioned for the fortficoming hall of farm machinery. This is a horse-drawn Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been d
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