• client
    A+E/HISTORY & SMITHSONIAN

    executive producers
    SUSAN E. LEVENTHAL
    LIBBY H. O'CONNELL

    producer & director
    BENJAMIN GOLDMAN

    supervising producer
    ALISON GUSS

    written by
    BENJAMIN GOLDMAN
    DANIEL GAMBURG

    illustrations
    DAVID NAVAS
    ELIZABETH HAIDLE

    animation
    BENJAMIN GOLDMAN
    JASON CARPENTER

    assistant animation
    MILES MARTINEZ

    technical director
    DAN EVERSON

    interactive programming
    JUSTIN WHITE

    project manager
    KIRSTEN YOUNG

Screensaver

In1862 Christian Schussele painted "Men of Progress" to recognize scientists and inventors who "had altered the course of contemporary civilization". In our Smithsonian NMAH, American Enterprise exhibit, a visitor taps any of the nineteen figures, and a kinetic silent animation is triggered which illustrates the subject's contribution.

Joseph Henry

Samuel Morse

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