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Season 8, Episode 2

A man from New Mexico bought a theremin, one of the first electronic instruments off e-Bay. When his theremin arrived, our contributor found an unusual document tacked to the inside of the cabinet. The letterhead paper bore the address to the Theremin Studios in New York City. Does our contributor have one of the fewer than a dozen instruments in the U.S. that Leon Theremin built himself?
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Season 8, Episode 10
S8 E12 Length 55:10 Premiere Date 08/30/10

Season 8, Episode 11
S8 E11 Length 55:10 Premiere Date 09/05/10

Season 8, Episode 9
S8 E9 Length 55:10 Premiere Date 08/23/10

Season 8, Episode 8
S8 E8 Length 55:10 Premiere Date 08/16/10

Season 8, Episode 7
S8 E7 Length 56:10 Premiere Date 08/09/10

Season 8, Episode 6
S8 E6 Length 55:09 Premiere Date 07/25/10

Season 8, Episode 5
S8 E5 Length 53:10 Premiere Date 07/19/10

Season 8, Episode 4
S8 E4 Length 53:09 Premiere Date 07/12/10

Season 8, Episode 3
S8 E3 Length 55:09 Premiere Date 07/05/10

Season 8, Episode 2
S8 E2 Length 55:09 Premiere Date 06/28/10

Season 8: Episode 1
S8 E1 Length 55:09 Premiere Date 06/21/10

WB Cartoons
Clip Length 16:57 Premiere Date 08/29/10

Galvez Papers
Clip Length 15:42 Premiere Date 08/29/10

Iwo Jima Map
Clip Length 17:24 Premiere Date 06/27/10

Copperhead Cane
Clip Length 17:57 Premiere Date 06/27/10

Web Extra: A Theremin Performance
Clip Length 02:36 Premiere Date 06/27/10

Theremin
Clip Length 16:48 Premiere Date 06/27/10

Provenance
Clip Length 02:13 Premiere Date 05/31/03

Trash or Treasure
Clip Length 01:55 Premiere Date 05/31/03

House Dating
Clip Length 02:06 Premiere Date 05/31/03

Real or Fake
Clip Length 02:19 Premiere Date 05/31/03

Preservation
Clip Length 01:39 Premiere Date 05/31/03

Causes of the Civil War
Clip Length 01:37 Premiere Date 05/31/03

Behind the Scenes - Flintlock Rifle
Clip Length 02:49 Premiere Date 04/27/03

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WPA Mural Studies/George Washington Miniature/Japanese Balloon Bomb - S7 E9

Premiered On: 08/24/2009

Mural studies that may have been commissioned by the WPA in the 1930s or 40s, a miniature painting that may depict George Washington, and a balloon scrap that may be a missing piece of a secret weapon.

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Stalag 17 Portrait/Seadrome/Black Tom Shell - S7 E10

Premiered On: 08/31/2009

A portrait created in a German prisoner of war camp; the Seadrome, a floating airport anchored to the ocean floor where trans-Atlantic passenger flights could refuel; and an intact artillery shell that may have been part of an attack on the U.S. in WWI.

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Civil War Bridge/Scottsboro Boys Stamp/Duke Ellington Plates - S7 E11

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The site where a bridge may have been burned to thwart General Sherman's attempt to cross into Columbia, S.C.; a penny stamp that may be connected to a landmark civil rights case; and metal sheets that look like printing plates for Billy Strayhorn's "Take the A Train," a song made famous by Duke Ellington.

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Space Exploration - S8 E1

Premiered On: 06/21/2010

A scrap of metallic Mylar that could be one of America's early satellites, the audacious notion that Andy Warhol's art may be on the moon, and a jury-rigged ski boot with a magnetic metal brick bolted to the bottom that may be one of the first prototypes for a NASA space boot.

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