America's Scientific Treasures A Travel Companion

by Cohen, Paul S.; Cohen, Brenda H.

• ISBN13: 9780841234444
• ISBN10: 0841234442
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1998-06-18
• Publisher: American Chemical Society

Summary

In a friendly and entertaining style, America's Scientific Treasures describes hundreds of exciting destinations for the scientifically inclined traveler. The authors have spent many years traveling throughout the United States, and all of their suggestions are based on their own first-hand experience. The treasures they describe range from the unusual to the majestic, from the National Museum of Roller Skating to the Grand Canyon, and each has been selected for its high quality and educational merit. The book is organized geographically, spanning the forty-eight contiguous states, and the descriptions contain both travel details and lively background information. This guide will appeal in particular to armchair travelers, families looking for educational vacations, and anyone interested in America's scientific history.

Table of Contents

New England	1	(44)
CONNECTICUT	1	(9)
Bristol American Clock and Watch Museum	1	(2)
Hartford Historical Museum of Medicine and Dentistry	3	(1)
Mystic Mystic Marinelife Aquarium	4	(2)
Mystic Seaport Museum	6	(1)
New Haven Peabody Museum of Natural History	7	(1)
Waterbury Mattatuck Museum	8	(2)
MAINE	10	(6)
Augusta Maine State Museum	10	(2)
Bath Maine Maritime Museum	12	(1)
Brunswick Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum	13	(1)
Freeport The Desert of Maine	14	(1)
Wiscasset The Musical Wonder House	15	(1)
MASSACHUSETTS	16	(18)
Boston The Computer Museum	16	(2)
Museum of Science	18	(1)
New England Aquarium	19	(2)
Brookline Frederick Law Olmsted National Historic Site	21	(1)
Cambridge Harvard University Museums	22	(2)
Lowell Lowell National Historic Park and Lowell Heritage State Park	24	(2)
New Bedford Whaling Museum	26	(1)
Plymouth Cranberry World Visitors' Center	27	(1)
Plimoth Plantation	28	(1)
Salem Peabody Museum of Salem	29	(1)
Saugus Saugus Iron Works National Historic Site	30	(2)
Sturbridge Old Sturbridge Village	32	(1)
Worcester Higgins Armory Museum	33	(1)
NEW HAMPSHIRE	34	(3)
Canterbury Canterbury Shaker Village	34	(2)
North Salem America's Stonehenge	36	(1)
RHODE ISLAND	37	(2)
Pawtucket Slater Mill Historic Site	37	(2)
VERMONT	39	(6)
Rutland New England Maple Museum	39	(1)
St. Johnsbury The Fairbanks Museum and Planetarium	40	(2)
Windsor American Precision Museum	42	(1)
Woodstock Billings Farm and Museum	43	(2)
Mid-Atlantic	45	(90)
DELAWARE	45	(5)
Dover Delaware State Museum and Johnson Victrola Memorial	45	(2)
Wilmington Delaware Museum of Natural History	47	(1)
Hagley Museum	47	(3)
WASHINGTON, D.C.	50	(7)
National Building Museum	50	(1)
National Museum of Health and Medicine	51	(1)
Smithsonian Institution	52	(2)
Bureau of Engraving and Printing	54	(2)
National Zoological Park of the Smithsonian Institution	56	(1)
MARYLAND	57	(13)
Aberdeen United States Army Ordnance Museum	57	(2)
Baltimore B&O Railroad Museum	59	(2)
B. Olive Cole Pharmacy Museum	61	(1)
Baltimore Museum of Industry and the Peale Museum	61	(3)
National Aquarium in Baltimore	64	(2)
Beltsville ARS National Visitor Center	66	(1)
St. Michaels Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum	67	(1)
Suitland Paul E. Garber Facility of the Smithsonian Institution	68	(2)
NEW JERSEY	70	(7)
Camden New Jersey State Aquarium	70	(1)
Fort Monmouth United States Army Communication-Electronics Museum	71	(2)
Morristown Historic Speedwell	73	(1)
Stanhope Village of Waterloo	74	(2)
West Orange Edison National Historic Site	76	(1)
NEW YORK	77	(27)
Albany New York State Museum	77	(2)
Corning Corning Incorporated	79	(1)
Hammondsport Glenn H. Curtiss Museum of Local History	80	(1)
Hudson American Museum of Fire Fighting	81	(2)
New York American Museum of Natural History	83	(2)
The Brooklyn Botanic Garden	85	(2)
Con Edison Energy Museum	87	(1)
Intrepid Sea-Air-Space Museum	87	(2)
New York Botanical Garden	89	(1)
Metropolitan Museum of Art	90	(2)
South Street Seaport Museum	92	(1)
Wildlife Conservation Society	93	(4)
Aquarium for Wildlife	93	(1)
Central Park Wildlife Conservation Center	94	(1)
International Wildlife Conservation Park	95	(1)
Prospect Park Wildlife Conservation Center	96	(1)
Queens Wildlife Conservation Center	97	(1)
Old Chatham Shaker Museum	97	(1)
Oyster Bay Planting Fields Arboretum	98	(1)
Rhinebeck Old Rhinebeck Aerodrome	99	(2)
Rochester George Eastman House International Museum of Photography and Film	101	(1)
Rome Erie Canal Village	102	(1)
Syracuse Erie Canal Museum	103	(1)
PENNSYLVANIA	104	(31)
Columbia Watch and Clock Museum	104	(2)
Cornwall Cornwall Iron Furnace	106	(2)
Doylestown The Mercer Mile: Mercer Museum, Moravian Pottery and Tile Works, and Fonthill	108	(1)
Elverson Hopewell Furnace National Historic Site	109	(2)
Northumberland Joseph Priestley House	111	(2)
Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sciences	113	(2)
College of Physicians of Philadelphia and the Mutter Museum	115	(2)
Franklin Institute of Science Museum	117	(1)
Historic Bartram's Garden	118	(2)
Pennsylvania Hospital	120	(1)
Philadelphia Zoo	121	(2)
Wagner Free Institute of Science	123	(1)
Pittsburgh The Carnegie	124	(4)
Pittsburgh Zoo	127	(1)
Scranton The Pennsylvania Anthracite Heritage Museum, the Lackawanna Coal Mine, and the Scranton Iron Furnaces	128	(1)
Steamtown National Historic Site	129	(2)
Titusville Drake Well Museum	131	(1)
York Harley-Davidson, Inc.	132	(3)
Southeast	135	(54)
ALABAMA	135	(4)
Birmingham Sloss Furnaces National Historic Landmark	135	(1)
Childersburg De Soto Caverns Park	136	(2)
Tuskegee Institute Tuskegee Institute National Historic Site	138	(1)
FLORIDA	139	(15)
Fort Myers Edison/Ford Winter Estates	139	(2)
Homestead Everglades National Park	141	(3)
Key Largo John Pennekamp Coral Reef State Park	144	(1)
Miami Miami Seaquarium	145	(2)
Tampa Busch Gardens-Tampa Bay	147	(1)
Museum of Science and Industry	148	(2)
Titusville Kennedy Space Center and Spaceport USA, Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge, and Canaveral National Seashore	150	(3)
West Palm Beach Lion Country Safari	153	(1)
GEORGIA	154	(7)
Atlanta Atlanta Botanical Garden	154	(2)
Fernbank Science Center and Fernbank Museum of Natural History	156	(1)
Brunswick Hofwyl-Broadfield Plantation State Historic Site	157	(2)
Jefferson Crawford W. Long Museum	159	(2)
NORTH CAROLINA	161	(5)
Asheboro North Carolina Zoological Park	161	(2)
Cape Hatteras Wright Brothers National Memorial	163	(1)
Charlotte Discovery Place	164	(2)
SOUTH CAROLINA	166	(4)
Charleston Middleton Place	166	(2)
Georgetown The Rice Museum	168	(2)
VIRGINIA	170	(16)
Alexandria Stabler-Leadbeater Apothecary Shop	170	(1)
Charlottesville Monticello, Thomas Jefferson Center, and Historic Michie Tavern	171	(3)
Fort Eustis Army Transportation Museum	174	(2)
Hampton Virginia Air and Space Museum/Hampton Roads History Center	176	(1)
Luray Shenandoah National Park	177	(1)
Newport News Mariner's Museum	178	(2)
Virginia Beach The Virginia Marine Science Museum	180	(1)
Williamsburg Colonial Williamsburg and Carter's Grove	181	(2)
Jamestown Settlement and Jamestown National Historic Site	183	(3)
WEST VIRGINIA	186	(3)
Credo and Milton Blenko Glass Company and the Pilgrim Glass Corporation	186	(3)
Mississippi Valley	189	(22)
ARKANSAS	189	(2)
Hot Springs Hot Springs National Park	189	(2)
KENTUCKY	191	(6)
Lexington The Kentucky Horse Park and the American Saddle Horse Museum	191	(2)
Transylvania University Medical Museum and the Hunt-Morgan House	193	(2)
Louisville The American Printing House for the Blind	195	(2)
Louisville Zoological Garden	196	(1)
LOUISIANA	197	(5)
New Orleans The Audubon Institute	197	(1)
Aquarium of the Americas	198	(1)
Zoological Gardens	199	(1)
Louisiana Nature Center	200	(1)
The New Orleans Pharmacy Museum	201	(1)
MISSISSIPPI	202	(4)
Jackson Mississippi Agriculture and Forestry Museum/National Agriculture Aviation Museum	202	(2)
Vicksburg U.S. Army Engineers Waterways Experiment Station (WES)	204	(2)
TENNESSEE	206	(5)
Memphis Mississippi River Museum	206	(1)
Oak Ridge American Museum of Science and Energy and Oak Ridge National Laboratory and Graphite Reactor	207	(4)
Midwest	211	(44)
ILLINOIS	211	(15)
Batavia Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory	211	(2)
Brookfield Brookfield Zoo	213	(2)
Chicago Adler Planetarium	215	(1)
Chicago Academy of Sciences	216	(2)
Field Museum of Natural History	218	(1)
International Museum of Surgical Science and Hall of Fame	219	(2)
Museum of Science and Industry	221	(2)
John G. Shedd Aquarium	223	(1)
Rockford The Time Museum	224	(2)
INDIANA	226	(2)
Indianapolis Indiana Medical History Museum	226	(2)
IOWA	228	(2)
Waterloo John Deere Company	228	(2)
MICHIGAN	230	(5)
Dearborn Greenfield Village and Henry Ford Museum	230	(3)
Negaunee Michigan Iron Industry Museum	233	(2)
MINNESOTA	235	(6)
Grand Rapids Forest History Center	235	(2)
Soudan, Hibbing, and Chisholm Soudan Underground Mine State Park, Hull-Rust Mahoning Historical Mine, and Minnesota Museum of Mining	237	(3)
St. Paul Science Museum of Minnesota	240	(1)
OHIO	241	(9)
Cleveland Dittrick Museum of Medical History	241	(2)
Columbus Columbus Zoo	243	(1)
Ohio Historic Center and Village	244	(2)
Dayton Carillon Historical Park	246	(4)
United States Air Force Museum	248	(2)
WISCONSIN	250	(5)
Madison Forest Products Laboratory	250	(1)
Milwaukee. Milwaukee Public Museum	251	(2)
Prairie du Chien Fort Crawford Medical Museum	253	(2)
Great Plains	255	(32)
KANSAS	255	(7)
Bonner Springs National Agricultural Center and Hall of Fame	255	(2)
Hutchinson Kansas Cosmosphere and Space Center	257	(1)
Lawrence University of Kansas Museum of Natural History	258	(2)
Wichita Sedgwick County Zoo	260	(2)
MISSOURI	262	(8)
Columbia University of Missouri Research Reactor	262	(2)
St. Louis Missouri Botanical Garden	264	(2)
St. Louis Science Center	266	(2)
St. Louis Zoo	268	(2)
NEBRASKA	270	(5)
Hastings Hastings Museum	270	(1)
Lincoln National Museum of Roller Skating	271	(2)
University of Nebraska State Museum	273	(2)
NORTH DAKOTA	275	(2)
Medora Theodore Roosevelt National Park	275	(2)
OKLAHOMA	277	(3)
Bartlesville Woolaroc	277	(1)
Oklahoma City Kirkpatrick Center	278	(2)
SOUTH DAKOTA	280	(7)
Custer Jewel Cave National Monument	280	(2)
Hot Springs Mammoth Site	282	(1)
Lead Black Hills Mining Museum and Homestake Gold Mine Surface Tours	283	(4)
Southwest	287	(44)
ARIZONA	287	(17)
Flagstaff Lowell Observatory	287	(2)
Sunset Crater Volcano National Monument and Wupatki National Monument	289	(1)
Grand Canyon Grand Canyon, Zion, and Bryce Canyon National Parks	290	(4)
Petrified Forest National Park	294	(3)
Phoenix Desert Botanical Garden	297	(1)
The Phoenix Zoo	298	(2)
Superior Boyce Thompson Southwestern Arboretum	300	(1)
Tucson The Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum	301	(2)
Kitt Peak National Laboratory	303	(1)
NEVADA	304	(2)
Boulder City Hoover Dam	304	(2)
NEW MEXICO	306	(5)
Albuquerque National Atomic Museum	306	(2)
New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science	308	(2)
Los Alamos Los Alamos National Laboratory and Bradbury Science Museum	310	(1)
TEXAS	311	(17)
Beaumont Edison Plaza Museum	311	(1)
Spindletop Gladys City Boomtown and Texas Energy Museum	312	(3)
Fort Sam Houston U.S. Army Medical Department Museum	315	(1)
Fort Worth Fort Worth Museum of Science and History	316	(2)
Fort Worth Zoo	318	(2)
Houston Houston Museum of Natural Science	320	(1)
Museum of Printing History	321	(1)
NASA-Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center	322	(2)
San Antonio Natural Bridge Caverns	324	(1)
San Antonio Botanical Gardens	325	(2)
San Antonio Zoo	327	(1)
UTAH	328	(3)
Bryce Canyon Bryce Canyon National Park	328	(1)
Salt Lake City Utah Museum of Natural History	328	(2)
Springdale Zion National Park	330	(1)
Rocky Mountains	331	(26)
COLORADO	331	(17)
Boulder National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) Mesa Laboratory	331	(2)
Colorado Springs Cheyenne Mountain Zoo	333	(2)
Colorado Springs Pioneers Museum	335	(1)
Denver and Georgetown Colorado History Museum and Georgetown Loop Railroad and Historic Mine Tour	336	(2)
Denver Denver Botanic Gardens	338	(2)
Denver Museum of Natural History	340	(2)
Denver Zoo	342	(2)
Estes Park Rocky Mountain National Park	344	(2)
Golden and Idaho Springs Colorado School of Mines Geology Museum and Edgar Mine	346	(2)
IDAHO	348	(2)
Pocatello Idaho Museum of Natural History	348	(2)
MONTANA	350	(3)
Billings Oscar's Dreamland	350	(2)
Bozeman Museum of the Rockies	352	(1)
WYOMING	353	(4)
Yellowstone Yellowstone National Park	353	(4)
West Coast	357	(68)
CALIFORNIA	357	(41)
Arcadia Los Angeles State and County Arboretum	357	(2)
La Jolla Stephen Birch Aquarium-Museum	359	(2)
Los Angeles Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County and George C. Page Museum of La Brea Discoveries	361	(3)
Mariposa California State Mining and Mineral Museum	364	(2)
Mineral Lassen Volcanic National Park	366	(1)
Monterey Monterey Bay Aquarium	367	(2)
Mount Hamilton Lick Observatory of the University of California	369	(3)
Oakland Oakland Museum	372	(1)
Pasadena Mount Wilson Observatory	373	(1)
Sacramento California State Railroad Museum	374	(2)
San Diego San Diego Aerospace Museum	376	(2)
San Diego Zoo and San Diego Wild Animal Park	378	(2)
San Franciso California Academy of Sciences	380	(2)
Exploratorium	382	(2)
San Francisco Cable Car Museum	384	(2)
San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park	386	(1)
San Francisco Zoo	387	(1)
Strybing Arboretum and Botanical Gardens	388	(2)
San Marino Huntington Library, Art Collection, and Botanical Garden	390	(2)
Santa Rosa Luther Burbank Home and Gardens	392	(1)
South San Francisco Rod McLellan's Acres of Orchids	393	(1)
Tulelake Lava Beds National Monument	394	(2)
Yosemite Yosemite National Park	396	(2)
OREGON	398	(11)
Astoria Fort Clatsop National Memorial	398	(2)
Cave Junction Oregon Caves National Monument	400	(2)
Florence Sea Lion Caves	402	(2)
Klamath Falls Geo-Heat Center	404	(1)
Portland Metro Washington Park Zoo	405	(2)
Winston Wildlife Safari	407	(2)
WASHINGTON	409	(16)
Ashford Mount Rainier National Park	409	(2)
Castle Rock Mount St. Helens National Volcanic Monument	411	(2)
Everett Boeing Tourcenter	413	(2)
Grand Couler Grand Coulee Dam	415	(2)
Seattle Museum of Flight	417	(2)
Washington Park Arboretum	419	(1)
Woodland Park Zoological Gardens	420	(2)
Vantage Ginkgo Petrified Forest State Park	422	(3)
INDEX	425