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History of Computers
- Digital Moments
- Photo journalist Doug Menuez arranges 36 photographs from his collection to form this impressive photo essay on the development of the computer.
- ENIAC 50th Anniversary Celebration
- The University of Pennsylvania celebrates the invention of ENIAC, the world's "first electronic, large scale, general-purpose computer," which was activated at the University in 1946. This site boasts articles addressing the ENIAC, an ENIAC virtual museum, and pertinent projects.
- The Gargantuan Virtual Guide to Cyber History
- An impressive collection of links relating to computers, the internet, and computer history. Divided into WWW, ftp, Gopher, and news.
- The History of Apple Computer
- Follow Apple history from "In the Garage" (1976-1981) to "Amelio to the Rescue"(1996-?).
- The History of Apple II Computer
- History from 1991-98 with downloads, links and resources.
- The Machine That Changed the World
- Based on the video series produced by WGBH Television in Boston, this site is divided into 5 sections starting with "Great Brains." An interesting chronological exploration of the history of computers.
Virtual Museums featuring Computers
- The Apple Museum
- The history museum of Apple computer's people and products with search engines and links to articles and timelines.
- Generations - Through the History of Computers
- Take a virtual tour of this exhibit featuring "representative systems from each of the major technology building blocks."
- Obsolete Computer Museum
- Exhibits include such oldies-but-goodies as Apple's LISA, Tandy's 16b, and much more.
- The Retrocomputing Museum
- Be dazzled by the freaks of computer history. Definitely a strange one.
- The Virtual Museum of Computing
- A tremendous amount of information is tucked into this site. Provides links to "local" virtual exhibits, pages on corporate history, the future of computing, and much more.
Women and Computing
- The Association for Women in Computing
- A national, non-profit organization dedicated to women's advancement in computing fields.
- TAP: The ADA Project
- A volunteer site at Yale which provides an impressive compendium of resources to be "tapped" related to women in computing.
- Women and Computers
- A hypertext introduction to gender and computer technology, including history, rationales, and politics.
- Women and Computer Science
- Provides information addressing on-line writings and other material about women and computer science.
History of the Internet
- The History of the Internet
- PBS's impressive site not only delves into "Net History," but also features FAQs, synopsis of topics airing on related PBS shows, and a nifty trivia contest.
- History of the Internet and WWW: The Roads and Crossroads of Internet History
- Travel along the construction of the Information Highway and witness major milestones; relive the first five years of the World Wide Web. This webpage is at the crossroads of the past and future of the Internet.
- Net History
- This self-proclaimed "informal history of Bitnet and the Internet" is for the internet novice as well as the internet buff. Review amusing bits of Bitnet history in the"Archives," read interesting articles on the Internet in the "Voices" section, and peruse related sites in "Links."
Organizations
- CyberAngels
- A volunteer Neighborhood-Watch organization, the CyberAngels are committed to fighting Internet crime. Learn some Cyberstreetsmarts and how to keep yourself safe from Cyberstalking.
- Hacker's Defense Fund
- The Hacker's Defense Fund is "an organization of legal firms and lawyers committed to making sure hackers can live on the internet without the fear of unlawful persecution..."The Hacker Org. page provides an interesting look into the Hacker world, yet another face of the Internet.
- The HTML Writer's Guild
- The HTML Writer's Guild boasts 123,000 members in 150 nations and strives to provide support and education for web authors. The Guild's page details the specifics of the organization, in addition to providing HTML resources.
- Internet Society Home Page
- Learn about the Internet Society, Internet standards, Internet Conferences, and much more.
World Wide Web
- Web Overview Seminar
- This is an excellent introduction to the Web for the novice. Learn why the Web is important, the relationship between the Web and the Internet, etc.
- W3C-The World Wide Web Consortium
- A jointly hosted consortium, W3C's goal is to "develop common standards for the evolution of the World Wide Web." Their site is divided into "User Interface," "Technology and Society," "Architecture," and "W3C Hosts," and provides comprehensive information on HTML, Web graphics, the legal nitty-gritty of the web, and lots more.
Inventions
- Discovery Online,Technology
- An impressive site which explores the ins and outs of significant and obscure inventions, cutting edge technology and engineering. Be sure to check out the Tech Community and the Dead Inventor's Corner. Amusing and informative.
- Flapping Wings!The Ornithopter HomePage
- A page devoted to exploring the ornithopter, or flapping-wing aircraft. Download MPEG movies showing these in flight, view an ornithopter timeline and learn how to construct your very own ornithopter.
- The Lemelson-MIT Prize Program's Invention Dimension
- Exhibits an Inventor of the Week (with interesting archives) and provides pages on Invention at MIT, Invention Extensions (a good list of invention-related links), and Invention Dimension Hotlists (with information on patent and copyright resources).
- To Fly is Everything: A Virtual Museum of the Invention of the Airplane
- This impressive site details the various myths and histories of the airplane's inventions, as well as providing a gallery of inventors who created and contributed to the airplane and an archive of airplane photos and movies.
Inventors
- Alexander Graham Bell's Path to the Telephone
- Reconstructs Bell's path from the idea to the reality of the telephone. See Bell's drawings as he envisioned sound into visible form and sound into current.
- Da Vinci's Inventor Homepage
- This comprehensive list of Internet resources is an excellent starting place for anyone researching anything concerning inventors and inventions. Besides boasting tons of links, DaVinci's Inventor Homepage provides useful articles and information on entrepreneur associations.
- Inventure Place: National Inventors Hall of Fame
- Search for information on inventors featured in the National Inventors Hall of Fame and their inventions and explore the web version of this fun museum.
- National Inventors Hall of Fame
- Offers a list of inventors and inventions, as well as a timeline and searchable database of inventions.
- The World of Benjamin Franklin
- No list addressing innovators would be complete without a page on Benjamin Franklin. At Ben's site you can learn about Ben's life, download a Quicktime movie featuring Ben, take a peek at his family tree, and of course, learn all about his inventions.
Resources
- Invention and Design
- The goal of the Invention and Design project performed by the Division of Technology,Culture, and Communication at the University of Virginia is "to facilitate a better understanding of the processes involved in invention and design through extended case-studies." The page provides interesting invention modules (explore the "re-invention" of the telephone based on A.G. Bell's original patents) and resources addressing inventions and inventors.
General Transportation Histories| Automobiles|Air and Space Vehicles
General Transportation Histories:
- A History of Mass Transit in Williamsport
- Interesting information about development of transportation in Williamsport and the surrounding area.
- Smithsonian: History of Transportation
- Links to numerous Smithsonian Institution hosted transportation sites.
Automobiles:
- The History of the Automobile
- A Smithsonian site with an extensive bibliography and a list of periodicals on the subject, with links to FAQs on transportation history in general.
Air and Space Vehicles:
- National Air and Space Museum
- One of the Smithsonian museums; an excellent site.
- The Aviation Home Page
- Has several links to museums and historical information sites.
- The International Women's Air and Space Museum
- This Dayton, Ohio museum honors women who made aviation history.
- Jane's
- A leading guide on defense, aerospace and transportation information. Although this site is primarily commercial, it does have outstanding data and illustrations.
- NASA: the National Aeronautics and Space Administration Homepage
- News, aerospace technology, and links to other cool NASA sites.
- The Space Shuttle
- Everything you ever wanted to know.
Archives and Information Sources:
- National Library of Medicine
- The National Institute of Health's library; provides on-line access to selected historical documents and images.
- ECHO Virtual Center
- An index of on-line documents, organizations, and institutions in the history of science, technology and medicine. Arranged topically.
- History of Acupuncture
- Offers information about the history of acupuncture from ancient times to the present.
- History of American Acupuncture
- Herbal Remedies
- Articles on a variety of herbal remedies, as well as an on-line searchable version of the 1931 text A Modern Herbal, by Mrs. M. Grieve, featuring over 800 different herbal remedies.
Specialized to American aspects of acupuncture.
Museums
- International Museum of Surgical Science
- Over 7,000 objects, rare manuscripts, and works of art relating to the history of surgery, plus a bibliography and an interactive experience in "antique illness."
- Museum of Questionable Medical Devices
- Samples of medical inventions from the collection, and information on how to get further access to the rest of the collection.
Print Technologies:
- Robert C. Williams American Museum of Papermaking
- An internationally renowned resource on the history of paper and paper technology.
- The American Printing History Association
- Contains detailed information on printing history and its related arts and skills, as well as current and past issues of The Journal of American Printing History Association.
- The Classic Typewriter Page
- Everything you ever wanted to know about the typewriter, including a brief history of the machine.
Radio:
- Optical Telegraphy History
- Early attempts at distance communication.
- Early Stages of Soviet and American Radio Broadcasting
- Compares the development of radio in the two countries.
- Broadcasting in Chicago 1921 - 1989
- An on-line exhibit of NBC studios at the Merchandise Mart, a virtual tour of the facilities, press accounts, information on the broadcasting technology, shows, and personalities.
- Museum of Television and Radio
- A virtual tour, information on current exhibitions, and information on upcoming seminars.
- John Pelham's Antique Radio Collection
- Pictures and information on radios from the 1930s and '40s; interior/exterior parts and equipment.
- United States Early Radio History
- Links to articles and extracts on radio information.
- Radio History Society
- An attractively designed site featuring one on-line exhibit at a time; dedicated to a history of the people (inventors, broadcasters) and the early equipment of radio broadcasting.
- Voices Out of the Fog
- History of radio broadcasting in the San Francisco Bay area; includes articles and photos.
- Radio Program Archive: 1920-1960
- This Memphis University site offers a history of radio in addition to an extensive archive of American radio programs.
- Broadcast Pioneer's Library
- Biographical information on early broadcasters hosted by the University of Maryland Libraries.
- Radio Days
- Timelines, programs, and history for early radio broadcasting; includes audio files.
Telephone:
- Telephony History Pages
- Include gifs of several early telephone advertisements.
- Alexander Graham Bell Notebooks Project
- Images and transcriptions of Bell's notebooks, including diagrams and results of experiments.
- National Museum of Science and Technology, Canada
- A searchable collection of communications technology, including telephone, telegraph,radio, TV, phonograph, transistors, and vacuum tubes.
Television Broadcasting
- The National Museum of Photography, Film, and Television
- A searchable site with information on the museum's collection of antique inventions, on-line exhibitions of selected pieces, and detailed information about the on-line exhibit items. Also includes bibliographies, a history of media, and information on conservation.
Film
- American Film Institute
- A beautifully designed searchable site with information on the Institute's exhibitions, preservation efforts, and research links.
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- Bill Douglas Center
- Provides a history of cinema and popular culture; includes a collection of pre-cinematic optical devices like the Zoetrope, Kinegraph, Panorama, and Diorama.
- 100 People in Film
- Nicely designed site includes biographies of 100 'most influential' people in film, including many of the film industry's early inventors and technicians.
- Early Motion Pictures
- The Library of Congress's collection of early motion pictures, including films of factories, San Francisco, the Pan-American Exposition, and New York. Also provides a bibliography and historical context.
- Scientific American
- On-line 19th century issues of Scientific American
- CNN Science and Technology
- On-line news service presenting information on contemporary advances in sci/tech fields.
- Eurekalert
- A news service for science, technology, medicine, and engineering, produced by the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Stanford, and Duke.
- Science News
- On-line news service provided by Microsoft and NBC.
- Women in Technology International
- Searchable site containing articles organized topically.
- Women in Science and Engineering
- Archive of articles in the Iowa State library.
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- Women in Transportation
- U. S. Department of Transportation Archive.
- Employment for Women in Science and Engineering
- Information on hiring, pay, and employment prospects for women in the sciences, from the University of California at Santa Barbara.
- Faces of Science:African-Americans in the Sciences
- Charts, graphs, HTML references and links provided by Princeton.
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