A racist named B. Howard Rand pulled out of lecturing at this place because it had admitted a black man named Octavius Catto as a member.  
A racist named B. Howard Rand pulled out of lecturing at this place because it had admitted a black man named Octavius Catto as a member.  William Castellini issued a fake press release from this organization claiming the world would end on April 1st, 1940, sparking a War of the Worlds-style panic.  This institution owns an automaton capable of writing three distinct poems built by Henri Maillardet. In 1897, Wilhelm Rontgen won its Elliott Cresson Medal.  One of the cooler things owned by this museum is a moving Baldwin 60000 locomotive in its basement.  It publishes the country's second oldest science journal.  The signature exhibit of this museum is a gigantic human (*) heart you can walk through.  Nick Cage bribes schoolkids to decode the Silence Dogood letters at this place in the first National Treasure movie.  For 10 points, name this Philadelphia science museum, whose Electricity exhibit honors its namesake's kite experiments.
A racist named B. Howard Rand pulled out of lecturing at this place because it had admitted a black man named Octavius Catto as a member.  
Franklin Institute [or the Franklin Institute of the State of Pennsylvania for the Promotion of the Mechanic Arts; or the Franklin Institute Science Museum] 