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Doodles, Drafts, and Designs: Industrial Drawings from the Smithsonian  
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Introduction
Working It Out
Convincing
Controlling
Recording
Credits

Detail Images: (above) Evans Dual-purpose Streamlined Auto-Railers trade literature cover, 1920-30s ; (upper right) Eric Meter Systems trade literature cover (detail), 1930

INNOVATORS GALLERY

Who invented Crayola Crayons? Designed the modern bra? Manufactured the first example of today's shopping cart? Explore the achievements of a variety of American innovators-from designers and engineers to inventors and manufacturers.

Ida Cohen Rosenthal (1886-1975)
Leonard Karr (1913-1995)
Charles F. Brannock (1903-1992)
Everett Huckel Bickley (1888-1972)
Orla E. Watson (1896-1983)
Howard Head (1914-1991)
Earl Silas Tupper (1907-1983)
Edwin Binney (1866-1934) and C. Harold Smith (1860-1931)