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Oliver Berliner, grandson of the inventor of the phonograph, to speak at the Johnson Victrola Museum
Oct. 4, 2014 program to focus on one of the pioneers in the music industry: Emile Berliner.
Historic Newark mill was built in the 1830s.
Underground Railroad Coalition of Delaware lecture to take place on Oct. 27, 2014.
Symposium to take place in Dover on Oct. 2 and 3, 2014.
Exhibit closed on July 23, 2017
Exhibit on display from Oct. 6 to Dec. 18, 2014.
Display focuses on the six simple machines (inclined plane, screw, wedge, pulley, lever, and wheel and axle) that constitute the elementary building blocks of which many more-complicated machines are composed.
EXHIBIT CLOSED March 19, 2016.
Exhibit explores His Majesty’s Sloop of War DeBraak, a British warship that was capsized and lost off the Delaware coast on May 25, 1798.
Family members enjoyed a program on the true story of one of their ancestors—James Summers, a free Black man who manumitted his own children in 1797.