July 1st will be the opening day of a brand new exhibition entitled, “American Enterprise” at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History. The exhibit will explore the history of business in the US, its positive side as well as its negative aspects.
According to Smithsonian sources, visitors “will be immersed in the dramatic arc of labor, power, wealth, success and failure in America.”
On display in the 8,000 square foot gallery space in the Mars Hall of American Business will be such essential items from the great American innovative past as the cotton gin created by Eli Whitney; a Fordson tractor; an experimental telephone developed by Alexander Graham Bell, and a New York Stock Exchange booth from 1929, the year of the great crash.
“American Enterprise will convey the drama, breadth and diversity of America’s business heritage along with its benefits, failures and unanticipated consequences, through four chronological eras from the 1770s to present,” says John Gray, the museum’s director.
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