2006: Benjamin Franklin Exhibit

The year 2006 marks the tercentenary of Franklin's birth. There is a Congressionally-established Tercentenary Commission charged with creating programs to commemorate the event. A Franklin exhibit now at the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia will travel across the country and eventually to Paris in 2008. An exhibit on Franklin and his work was available on the first floor of Walter Library, including a copy of the 5th edition of his New experiments and observations on electricity made at Philadelphia in America by Benjamin Franklin, L.L.D. and F.R.S. To which are added, letters and papers on philosophical subjects. The whole corrected, methodized, improved, and now collected into one Volume, and illustrated with Copper Plates, printed in London in 1754.

2005: Albert Einstein Exhibit

"The year 2005 marks the centenary of Einstein's annus mirabilis of 1905 and of the 50th anniversary of his death in 1955. The miracle year saw the publication of path-breaking papers on the light quantum hypothesis, Brownian motion and special relativity, including the introduction of his famous formula E=mc2."* All of these papers were published by the 26-year-old Einstein in the Annalen der Physik, one of the major physics journals of the time. Taken together these papers revolutionized physics and influenced the course of science, technology, politics, and culture in the 20th century and beyond.

*[http://living-einstein.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/living_einstein]

2003: Petticoats and Slide Rules:
SWE, A History of Women Engineers

Petticoats and Slide Rules was a special traveling exhibit from the SWEs Archives at Wayne State University. This exhibit was on display from June through September 2003 in Walter Library, co-sponsored by the Institute of Technology and the SWE Minnesota Section, with some funding provided by Lockheed-Martin.