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Message:: [QUOTE="clayirving, post: 1552992, member: 18867"]The second note of the Educational Series — the $1 note being the first. It is perhaps the only bill in United States history to give tribute to scientists and inventors alone while neglecting the usual display of generals and politicians. Engraved by Charles Schlecht and G.F.C. Smillie from designs by Edwin H. Blashfield (the figures in the center) and Thomas F. Morris (frame and background). The front represents the wise and matronly Science presenting the young Steam and Electricity to Industry and Commerce. The young Electricity carries a coil of wire wound into an electromagnet. Steam, slightly more mature, holds a lever which controls the gear of an engine. Tall fronds form a central circle for the figures, framing them and setting them off sharply from the white background; the sides of the note are filled out with carved mantels and shields. The reverse, engraved by Lorenzo J. Hatch, has engravings of Robert Fulton, inventor of the steam engine, and Samuel F.B. Morse, inventor of the telegraph.<img src="http://www.panix.com/~clay/currency/248-001.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]