Eli Whitney Museum

In Finding Winnie, author Lindsay Mattick traces the roots of a classic modern childhood fable to those dangerous years. A Canadian veterinarian brought a bear cub to be his unit's mascot as it joined the conflict in Europe. That bear survived the conflict and lived in a zoo in London where a young boy, Christopher Milne, visited him everyday. The boy's father wove that friendship into the tales of Christopher Robin and Winnie the Pooh.

A.C. Gilbert introduced the Erector Set just over 100 years ago.

Fifty years ago, the classic steel construction set's popularity was in decline. Recent research has uncovered a lively experiment mean to expand interest in the years of Erector's decline. Students at Cooper Union, a prominent art school in New York, were encouraged to make are of the Erector girders, nuts, bolts, wheels and axles.

Learn the basics of Blender, a professional, open source 3D modeling and animation toolkit. Blender is used to create animated films, visual effects, art, 3D printed models, interactive 3D applications and video games. This program contains numerous modeling features as well as an integrated game and physics engine.