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David PantalonyCurator, Physical Sciences and MedicineCanada Science and Technology Museum, Ottawa

Provenance and the Role of the Public Museum:

How the Life Stories of Artifacts Challenge Traditional Accounts of

Science and History

Tuesday, March 8, 2011

Maritime Museum of the Atlantic, Halifax, NS

Historic spectrograph

University of Saskatchewan

Chair of PhysicsDr. Chary Rangacharyulu

Part of the Herzberg Spectrograph from 1936, University of Saskatchewan

Tracing the Niobium supply chain

MRI machine in storage at the Canada Science and Technology Museum

Theratron Junior, ser. no. 15, 1956.Atomic Energy of Canada LimitedCSTM artifact no. 1966.0043

Students visit the former Atomic Energy of Canada

production plant in Ottawa. It was in operation

from 1954 – 1965.

(right) Oral history at Laperriere site

with former machinist and service technician, Al Crandell,

Dec 8, 2009

(left) Theratron Juniors in

production at AECL factory c. 1960

High Commissioner for India inspects Theratron Junior during visit to Ottawa in 1958

Selling Canada at the Seattle World’s Fair, 1962

Photos by National Film Board (NFB) still photographer, Chris Lund

National Film Board photostory on Seattle, 1962

“Canadian Science and Industry Serving Mankind”

Peaceful message, rockets for scientific research

Ideals and reality

Theratron Junior, serial no. 15 installed at Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital, Binghampton, New York in 1957.

Conclusions