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Museum-wide Theme & Featured Exhibit (Created by the Cade Museum!)
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Museum-wide Theme
Latimer, Edison, Tesla: The Age of Electricity
February 2, 2023 - May 21, 2023 Have you ever wondered who lit the lightbulb and made electric power possible? Meet the inventors and innovators who wired the world as you tinker, design, and traverse your way across the turn of the twentieth century. Ignite your creative spark and investigate how electricity shapes our lives with hands-on activities and exhibits. Uncover the creative leaps in technology as well as the roles Lewis Latimer, Thomas Edison, and Nikola Tesla played during this era. |
Featured Exhibit
Lewis Latimer: Lighting the Way
February 2, 2023 - May 21, 2023 Walk through the life of Lewis Latimer, an inventor who changed the way the world viewed electric light. Latimer's self-made story demonstrates how he helped bring incandescent lighting to the masses, first by wedging his way into patent drafting to eventually inventing ground-breaking changes to light bulb filaments, landing him a spot in Thomas Edison's electric company. With excerpts from Lewis Latimer's diary, dive into the mind of a man who is immortalized in history for his inventions, all while overcoming the challenges faced with being an African American inventor in the height of Jim Crow America. |
Permanent
The Sweat Solution
Gatorade from concept to commercialization and beyond...
The Sweat Solution provides a summary answer to that delicate but necessary question posed in 1965, "Why don't football players ever urinate during a game?" The exhibit will showcase the invention of Gatorade, the lives saved because of its science, the industries that emerged from its invention, and its incredible global impact.
Gatorade from concept to commercialization and beyond...
The Sweat Solution provides a summary answer to that delicate but necessary question posed in 1965, "Why don't football players ever urinate during a game?" The exhibit will showcase the invention of Gatorade, the lives saved because of its science, the industries that emerged from its invention, and its incredible global impact.
At First Flush
Located in the Cade Museum's restrooms
At First Flush will tell you the story of toilets, soaps, and Thomas Crapper.
Find out how astronauts use the restroom, how toilets crowned the most powerful cities, and who used the first flushable toilet (and loved it).
Located in the Cade Museum's restrooms
At First Flush will tell you the story of toilets, soaps, and Thomas Crapper.
Find out how astronauts use the restroom, how toilets crowned the most powerful cities, and who used the first flushable toilet (and loved it).
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Mothers of Invention
Located along the Cade Museum's second floor rotunda Audio Tour Available Everyone says that necessity is the mother of invention, but at the Cade, we see inventions born from all of these Mothers of Invention: Necessity, Curiosity, Imagination, Iteration, and Serendipity. Around Rotunda, see examples of inventors who exemplify these concepts. Click the button below to read more about the exhibit and listen to the audio tour. |
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