i am here with -- richard stamm: richard stamm.

i am here with -- richard stamm: richard stamm. steve berry: he has a cool job, he looks after this stuff in the building. it is really neat. a really interesting place, kind of where it started. the smithsonian was started by a man named james smithson. he was an innocuous british chemist. he was just a guy who had an interest in science at the time. he died at he had $500,000 when he died and he left it to his nephew. his nephew had been married and had kids, life would be great, he would have cap the money, but he died childless. the provision said the money would go to washington, d.c. to found the smithsonian institution for the increase and diffusion of knowledge. that is what the language says. here is the neat part. he had never set foot in america. why did he leave a half million dollars to place he never set a foot in? to this day, nobody knows. >> the guess is he was somewhat bitter. , soas an illegitimate son for the 30 years of his life, he first was known as james lewis macey. because he was illegitimate, he was never