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| Baltimore Museum of Industry (est 1977) is located in an 1865 oyster cannery; looming overhead is the 1942 Whirley Crane (nicknamed for its ability to turn 360 degrees), a Bethlehem Steel Clyde Model 17 DE 90 crane that was instrumental in Bethlehem Steel’s prolific World War II shipbuilding effort |
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| Baltimore Gas and Electric started in 1816 as the first gas company in North America, started by Rembrandt Peale who had gas lights installed in his museum |
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| Commercial signage from Baltimore |
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| A display in the Fire and Shadow exhibit about the city's Sparrows Point steel mill, once the world's largest producer of steel |
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| Collective Action looks at the historic local background of today's organized labor and activism movements |
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| The Port |
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| The Steam Tug Baltimore (1906 in Baltimore) sits in the harbor |
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| A 3/8 scale prototype of the Mini-Mariner flying boat bomber (1937, by Glenn L Martin company) |
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| Maryland Milestones outlines innovations and firsts developed in Baltimore and Maryland |
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| Sweetheart, once the world's largest producer of drinking straws, has a 1966 patent on fabricating plastic straws |
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| Communications display of a phone booth, radios and televisions; in 1844 Samuel Morse sent the first telegraph message from Washington, DC to Baltimore, asking “What hath God wrought?” |
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| 1960 Philco Predicta Continental 4730 Television with swivel screen |
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| Shuttered: Images from the Fall of Bethlehem Steel (photos by J M Giordano) |
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| Lunch counter in the Pharmacy, represents the first (and successful) sit-in demonstration by students from the historically Black college of Morgan State in Baltimore, which took place in 1955 with Read's Drugstores choosing to desegregate within days, five years before the famous Greensboro, NC sit-ins |
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| Pharmacy compound jars; it was Dr. George Bunting’s Baltimore pharmacy that had a sunburn cream that a customer declared "knocked" out his eczema, thus Noxzema was born |
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| The first umbrella factory in the country was established in Baltimore in 1828, leading to the city becoming the umbrella manufacturing capital of the world with the motto "Born in Baltimore, Raised Everywhere!" |
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| Garment Loft of 1929 in a city that produced uniforms for Union soldiers during the civil War |
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| Fueling the Automobile Age looks at the contributions of two Baltimore-based petroleum companies: Amoco and Crowne-Central |
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| Amoco's horse-drawn kerosene wagon |
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| The kerosene wagon and a visible gas pump |
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| The corner store with a screen door |
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| Cannery: the former Platt and Company canned oysters, and fruits and vegetables from Maryland's Eastern Shore; in the summer, oysters spawn and become softer and less flavorful, so traditionally they are harvested in the months with the letter 'r' |
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| Machine Shop with belt-driven machines connected to a single engine powered by steam, and later electricity, which allowed formerly labor-intensive jobs to be done more quickly and efficiently |
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| The Forge illustrates the formerly labor-intensive jobs |
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| 1936 linotype machine in the Print Shop, which also contained other types of presses |
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