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Inventing a Better Mousetrap: Patent Models from the Rothschild Collection

How does one build a better mousetrap? It's a recurring question that one might ask of many important objects and inventions. The folks at the Smithsonian American Art Museum are also quite curious about this subject, and they have created this online exhibition to look at a range of inventions patented in the nineteenth century. The remarkable models all come from the collection of Alan...

https://americanart.si.edu/exhibitions/rothschild