What is worth seeing in the U.S.?

     The research university (late 19th-century)
          A new model
          New (and old) institutions
          Creating a national community
          Elite centers

     Industrial laboratories (ca. 1900)
          Origins:  technical and corporate
          The nature of industrial research

Measures of success
     Homegrown Ph.D.s
     Participation in an international network
     The Nobel Prizes

An American style of physics?
     Experiment:  precision measurement and technical ingenuity
     Theory:  philosophical pragmatism and experimental connections