Description: Photograph of a painting titled "Dawn of a New Light," which depicts inventor Thomas Edison at different life stages. The painting was created by Ohio artist Howard Chandler Christy in 1950 and hangs in the rotunda of the Ohio Statehouse. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL03333
Subjects: Painters -- Ohio; Ohio Economy--Science and Technology; Christy, Howard Chandler, 1873-1952; Edison, Thomas A. (Thomas Alva), 1847-1931; Inventors -- Ohio
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: Photograph of astronaut Neil Armstrong as a child with family friends Mr. and Mrs. Glen Buller, ca. 1935. Armstrong was born in Wapakoneta, Ohio, in 1930, and went on to be the first man to walk on the moon in 1969. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL05329
Subjects: Children--Ohio; Ohio Economy--Science and Technology; Armstrong, Neil, 1930-2012; Space flight
Places: Wapakoneta (Ohio); Auglaize County (Ohio)
 

Description: Photograph of astronaut Neil Armstrong as a child, posing with his sister June Armstrong Hoffman, ca. 1935. Armstrong was born in Wapakoneta, Ohio, in 1930, and went on to be the first man to walk on the moon in 1969. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL05357
Subjects: Children--Ohio; Ohio Economy--Science and Technology; Armstrong, Neil, 1930-2012; Space flight
Places: Wapakoneta (Ohio); Auglaize County (Ohio)
 

Description: Photograph of astronaut Neil Armstrong as a child in his band uniform, ca. 1940. Armstrong was born in Wapakoneta, Ohio, in 1930, and went on to become the first man to walk on the moon, in 1969. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL05358
Subjects: Children--Ohio; Ohio Economy--Science and Technology; Armstrong, Neil, 1930-2012; Space flight
Places: Wapakoneta (Ohio); Auglaize County (Ohio)
 

Description: Photograph of astronaut Neil Armstrong with his wife Jan on their wedding day, January 28, 1956. Armstrong was born in Wapakoneta, Ohio, in 1930, and went on to become the first man to walk on the moon, in 1969. Neil and Janet (nee Shearon) met at Purdue University in the early 1950s. They had three children together, but divorced in 1994 after 38 years of marriage. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL05359
Subjects: Couples; Ohio Economy--Science and Technology; Armstrong, Neil, 1930-2012; Space flight; Wedding costume; Weddings
Places: Wapakoneta (Ohio); Auglaize County (Ohio); Wilmette (Illinois)
 

Description: Portrait of inventor Thomas Alva Edison, ca. 1920 - 1929. Edison was born in Milan, Ohio. He gained fame as an inventor, registering a total of 1,093 patents for such innovations as the incandescent light bulb, the phonograph, and the moving picture camera. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL00738
Subjects: Edison, Thomas A. (Thomas Alva), 1847-1931; Inventors--Ohio; Ohio Economy--Science and Technology;
 

Description: Stereograph titled "Many Forms of Crude Rubber As It Comes from the Jungles." Taken in a "great rubber goods factor in Akron," ca. 1900-1930. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL03908
Subjects: Rubber industry and trade--Ohio; Ohio Economy--Science and Technology
Places: Akron (Ohio); Summit County (Ohio)
 

Description: Thomas Corwin Mendenhall (1841-1924) was appointed by President Harrison to superintend the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey in 1889. He had previously served as the chair of physics at Ohio State University. He oversaw the shift in the fundamental standards of the United States from the English yard and pound to the International Meter and Kilogram. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL03914
Subjects: Scientists; Ohio Economy--Science and Technology
 

Description: Photograph showing a dam located at Zoar. The caption beneath the photograph reads: "Zoar Dam at Zoar, O." This photograph is part of a series taken by the Board of the Ohio Department of Public Works to document the disrepair of the infrastructure of the Ohio and Erie Canal and Miami-Erie Canal systems in 1916, showing the physical condition of each structure. The Ohio Department of Public Works is one of the oldest departments of state government in continuous existence. Among its other duties, this department was charged with maintenance and administration of the Ohio & Erie and Miami-Erie Canals. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA936AV_B01_103
Subjects: Zoar (Tuscarawas County, Ohio); Dams; Ohio Economy--Science and Technology
Places: Zoar (Ohio); Tuscarawas County (Ohio)
 

Description: This color image shows the launch of Apollo 11 on July 16, 1969, at 9:32 a.m. (EDT), John F. Kennedy Space Center, Cape Canaveral, Florida. Flames and smoke billow from the Saturn V rocket as it lifts off the launchpad. Apollo 11 made history on July 20, 1969, when its lunar module landed on the moon. Mission commander and Ohio native Neil Armstrong (1930-2012) and fellow astronaut Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin became the first people to walk on the moon, spending 2.5 hours taking photographs and collecting samples. During their exploration the mission's third astronaut, Michael Collins, remained in the command module "Columbia" as it continued its orbit. The historic mission ended July 24, when the command module and crew splashed down in the Pacific Ocean near Hawaii. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL06903
Subjects: Armstrong, Neil, 1930-2012; Ohio Economy--Science and Technology; Aldrin, Buzz; Apollo 11 (Spacecraft); Space flight; Project Apollo (U.S.); Space vehicles
Places: Cape Canaveral (Florida); United States
 

Description: The U.S. dredge boat "Malta" is seen dredging in the Lowell, Ohio, Canal. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL07976
Subjects: Ohio Economy--Transportation and Development; Ohio Economy--Science and Technology; Coastal engineering
Places: Lowell (Ohio)
 

Description: This illustration of the Cincinnati College of Medicine's Museum and Practical Chemical Laboratory appears in the Centennial Issue of the "Cincinnati Journal of Medicine, Centennial Issue," published in 1957. In 1896, the Medical College of Ohio merged with the University of Cincinnati. The Miami Medical College also joined the University of Cincinnati in 1909, creating the Ohio-Miami Medical College of the University of Cincinnati. In 1920, the college changed its name to the College of Medicine of the University of Cincinnati. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL04222
Subjects: Cincinnati (Ohio); Medicine--History; Ohio Economy--Science and Technology
Places: Cincinnati (Ohio); Hamilton County (Ohio)