The Smithsonian American Art Museum gallery featured Inventing a Better Mousetrap from 2011 – 2013. Learn more about the exhibit.
Learn more about patent model’s and Alan Rothschild’s collection in “Patent models trace history and highlights of 19th century innovation.”
Alan and Inventing a Better Mousetrap were featured by the Competitive Enterprise Institute in “Building a Better Society with a Better Mousetrap.”
Read about Alan and the collection in the Atlas Obscura.
Read the Inventing a Better Mousetrap book review on “The Patent Search Blog.”
Read “Spotlight on the Rothschild Patent Model Collection” to learn more about Alan and his collection.
Learn more about Alan Rothschild in “One Man, Many Ideas.”
Learn more about the Hagley Museum and Library’s second biggest patent model collection in the world, which now includes the Rothschild collection.
View patent model photos from the Rothschild collection.
Learn more about a model for a prosthetic in the collection.
Read a review of the Smithsonian exhibit in the Wall Street Journal.
Read about patents and the collection in “Tiny instruments of American invention” on Salon.
Read the blog post from the Smithsonian American Art Museum highlight a few of the patent models.
Watch a “Conversation with Collector Alan Rothschild” at the Smithsonian American Art Museum:
View patent models from the Rothschild collection in this video about the Smithsonian American Art Museum exhibit.
Learn more about patent models (including a brief history), Alan, and the Rothschild collection in “The curious world of patent models” in The Christian Science Monitor.