kathleen: i'm kathleen franz. i am the business history curator at the national museum of american history at the smithsonian institution. we are here in the object project today, looking at some of the amazing objects that have come out of storage and that you can interact with. i am here with the tiffany bicycle. it is a super-blingy example of a safety bicycle that was introduced in 1895 by tiffany and company for christmas, for the holiday market and for the , very distinguished and wealthy buyers. this was not a common bicycle used by everyone. but the form that it is, two two wheels of about the same size, is something that was new on the market, but aimed at a more middle-class consumer. -- a more middle-class audience. objects can tell us different stories. and this bike is packed full of stories. i will share a couple of them with you. one is that the viking was a craze in the 1880's and 1890's. so, bikes come first, then automobiles. and they overlap a little bit, but bicycles really paved the way, liter

we also hear from kathleen franz . smithsoniane to the national museum of american history. it is wonderful to welcome you to our new floor that is looking at innovation and invention in america. to start with that, we have extraordinary examples of early inventions and contemporary invasions. we even have apple 1, which is extraordinary. , the ways in which america has been so inventive and continues. invention is one of the most important parts of our country. let's walk through. as you come through, you start to see all these exhibitions that are focused on ways in which we have developed a new way of thinking, of being in time. here we have the bayou of money, which we have an extraordinary collection of coins and paper, but all of them are oriented in a way to understand the role of money. we end up with the bitcoin pity you can see over time how we understand -- bitcoin. so you can see over time how we understand money, going forward. and we walked into part of the show where we have american enterprise, talking about the social history, which is really your history, o

we also hear historical background from curator kathleen franz. john: welcome to the smithsonian