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In 1978, the Smithsonian Institution gave me a contract to help them with a
joint exhibition with the Bayerisches National Museum, first in Munich, as

“Die Welt als Uhr” and then in Washington, D.C., as “The Clockwork
Universe.” I was required to work with curators and conservators on clocks
from the 1600s and to make interactive models of various aspects of
clockwork mechanisms. The exhibition was a great success at both venues

and we were encouraged to become citizens, which we did. Over the course
of some 28 years working for the Smithsonian, I traveled far and wide
promoting and helping with the aim of staging meaningful and interesting

exhibitions for the public, of the SI’s rare and important collection. I was
hired as a G-11 member of the permanent staff and enjoyed the privilege of
my own workshop and working with some unique artifacts, both for their

preservation and for exhibiting to the general public.

Not all of my work has been in the basement of the NMAH. I fitted a bell for
the SI “Castle” clock to strike the hours, part of the celebration of the 150th

Anniversary of the Smithsonian Institution, and I traveled often for the public
good.

Until recently, I was responsible, through the SI, for the care and maintenance
of Thomas Jefferson’s clocks at Monticello. I also traveled a number of times
to the Republic of Guyana to restore and maintain many of the country’s

public tower clocks, as payback for the Guyanese allowing Smithsonian
naturalists to enter their rainforests and collect specimens for scientific
research.

In my role as a government employee, I have given help to Colonial
Williamsburg, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Milwaukee Art Museum,
Harvard College Observatory, and other public and private institutions.

Now that I am retired, I can look back and appreciate that all the long hours
and traveling has helped my new-found country in some small way and has
given me a life of which I can be thankful, satisfied, and perhaps a little

proud.

U.S. NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

I am Dr. Allen Brodsky, a Veteran, Sc.D., CHP, CIH DABR, and

was formerly with Naval Research Lab (1950-54); Federal Civil Defense

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