Edgar Meyer Innovative Lives Presentation
name: label: Creator
content: Jerome and Dorothy Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation.
label: Interviewee
content: Meyer, Edgar
title: label: Topic
content: Innovative Lives Program (NMAH public program series)
topic: label: Occupation
content: Artists
label: Topic
content: Sculpture
label: Topic
content: Molecules
label: Topic
content: Poliomyelitis
label: Topic
content: Inventions
label: Topic
content: Inventors
label: Topic
content: Biochemistry
label: Topic
content: Sculptors
label: Topic
content: Models and modelmaking
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: This collection was made for the National Museum of American History on July 7-8, 2005.
creator: label: Creator
content: Jerome and Dorothy Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation.
label: Interviewee
content: Meyer, Edgar
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content: Edgar Meyer Innovative Lives Presentation
abstract: label: Summary
content: Original and reference audiocassettes, digital images, video clips, and a 16mm film documenting biochemist, artist, and sculptor Edgar Meyer and his large scale models of the polio virus (interview).
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Sculptor who creates large-scale models of molecules.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 0.25 Cubic feet (3 boxes)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 2005-07-07
custodhist: label: Custodial History
content: Collection transferred to the Archives Center in 2006.
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NMAH.AC.0918
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Interviews
label: Type
content: Motion pictures (visual works)
label: Type
content: Audiocassettes
label: Type
content: Cd-roms
label: Type
content: Oral history
arrangement: label: Arrangement
content: The collection is arranged into 4 series.

Series 1: Original Audio Cassettes, 2005

Series 2: Reference Audio Cassettes, 2005

Series 3: Digital Images, 2005

Series 4: Moving Image, undated
processinfo: label: Processing Information
content: Processed by Alison L. Oswald, February 2006.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Interviews -- 2000-2010
label: Genre/Form
content: Motion pictures (visual works)
label: Genre/Form
content: Audiocassettes
label: Genre/Form
content: CD-ROMs
label: Genre/Form
content: Oral history -- 2000-2010
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Collection documents Edgar Meyer's work in creating large scale models of molecules, specifically models of the polio virus. 

Series 1: Original Audio Cassettes, 2005, consists of two audio recordings of Edgar Meyer's Innovative Lives Program and Gallery talk for the exhibition "Whatever Happened to Polio?" on July 7-8, 2005.  The two cassettes are approximately 2 hours and 5 minutes in length.  

Series 2: Reference Audio Cassettes, 2005, consists of three audio cassettes documenting Meyer's Innovative Lives Program and gallery talk for the exhibition "Whatever Happended to Polio?" on July 7-8, 2005.  

Series 3: Digital Images, 2005, consist of one CD-ROM containing 24 digital images (jpeg files) and 5 video clip files documenting Meyer's Innovative Lives Presentation in the Museum's Information Age Theatre.  

Series 4: Moving Image contains one 16 mm film titled "Exercising the PDP II," undated.

Digital images were taken by American History Museum staff members Paul Rosenthal, Matthew White and Hugh Talman of Smithsonian Photographic Services.
relatedmaterial: label: Related Materials
content: Materials at the National Museum of American History

Edgar Meyer's molecule sculpture of the polio virus is the exhibition "Whatever Happened to Polio?" The molecule sculpture was donated to the Division of Medicine and Science.