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This subcategory contains 72 links Dr. Robert A. Hatch. Includes biographies By Robert Henry Thurston. 1896 American Institute of Physics. "A mission to preserve and make known the history of modern physics and allied fields including astronomy, geophysics, optics, and the like." British biologist Guide to the collections plus more. Information on over 3,000 Australian scientists from the 18th century to the present! "This catalog is a collection of 631 detailed biographies on members of the scientific community during the 16th and 17th centuries with vital facts about each individual and their contributions to science." excellent With the support of the National Science Foundation, The Chymistry of Isaac Newton is producing a scholarly online edition of Newton's alchemical manuscripts integrated with new research on Newton's chymistry. An Electronic Resource Developed by Christopher D. Green, York University, Toronto, Canada The Commodore 64 was the first computer for many families. This program looks at what you can do with the famous C-64. Demonstrations include The Wine Steward, Skate or Die, Strike Fleet, the Koala Pad, Master Composer, Tetris, and Berkeley Software's GEOS. Includes a visit to a Commodore Owners Users Group meeting and an interview with Max Toy President of Commodore. Originally broadcast in 1988. This drama follows man's attempts to fly from ancient times through the first balloons, the Wright Brothers, and other pioneers, using dramatic re-enactment and working models of early flying machines. Beginning with World War I, archival footage is used. Much on mid-1930s commercial aircraft and experimental planes including early helicopters. In conclusion, some sword-rattling appropriate to the opening months of World War II. Book by Sarah Lowengard The goal of this undertaking is to make the full literature of evolution available online within a historically and topically coherent structure. The work of Charles Robert Darwin is our pivot, but our framework includes the 17th century to the present and encompasses the history of evolution as a scientific theory with deep roots and broad cultural consequences. Cartoon showing what happens to a drop of gasoline from the time it flows into the gas tank to when it is exploded in the engine cylinder. This "fantastic voyage" through a glisteningly clean Chevrolet engine is an excellent example of the soft-sell industrial, where the product that's promoted is hardly ever mentioned by name. A bibliography of historical sources in biogeography and related fields, with links to biographical information and the full-text of some 200 of the sources. ECHO (Exploring and Collecting History Online) is a directory to 5,000+ websites concerning the history of science, technology, and industry. You can search it, browse it according to category, or even look at the tag cloud we've generated. Cataloguing, Annotating, and Reviewing Sites on the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine Report on the excavations at this important archeological site. Whitney's factory introduced interchangeable parts in manufacturing. BBC "A discussion list and web site intended for the growing number of scholars who study science, medicine and technology across a wide variety of periods and regions of the world. " from apple-history.com "Astronomiae Historia / History of Astronomy was created in January 1995 on behalf of the Working Group for the History of Astronomy in the Astronomische Gesellschaft. Since March 1998 this site is also maintained on behalf of Commission 41 (History of Astronomy) of the International Astronomical Union." "The ChiMed web site is managed by an international group of scholars who study the history of medicine in China." Materials on the history of computing. Important for HISTLINE, a dynamic bibliography and for the image collection. Good site created by Paul Halsall "Our mission is to explore new ways of understanding technological change through oral history and to harness the power of the Internet in presenting the history of technology in the virtual museum environment." The influenza pandemic of 1918-1919 killed more people than the Great War, known today as World War I (WWI), at somewhere between 20 and 40 million people. It has been cited as the most devastating epidemic in recorded world history. More people died of influenza in a single year than in four-years of the Black Death Bubonic Plague from 1347 to 1351. Known as "Spanish Flu" or "La Grippe" the influenza of 1918-1919 was a global disaster. "...to promote the scholarly study of the history of meteorology, climatology, and related sciences including their social and cultural aspects." Do Mandrakes Really Scream? From U.S. National Library of Medicine, National Aeronautics and Space Administration "NOAA History is an intrinsic part of the history of the United States and the development of its science and commercial infrastructure." "This file consists of two parts. The first is a catalog of oral history interviews conducted by the staff of Department of Space History, National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution over the period 1981 through 1990...The second part of the file is full text copies of selected interview transcripts from the Museum's collection." "The inventor of the liquid fuel motor (1895) and the first modern rocket propulsion system (1900) was a Peruvian engineer and statesman. His story is told here by his great niece." Search back issues A Project of the American Anthropological Association Repertorio di risorse Internet ad accesso libero, selezionate in base sia alla loro utilità per gli studiosi, sia alla loro affidabilità dal punto di vista informatico e degli aggiornamenti. Si tratta di siti creati da enti, editori e istituzioni autorevoli, che consentono il reperimento di informazioni di interesse generale da affiancare a quelle della collezione storica della biblioteca. La pagina è in continua evoluzione (sono benvenuti suggerimenti, segnalazioni di link, critiche, all' indirizzo c.lamberti@ing.unipi.it ) ed al momento comprende: "Although many faculty members make increasing use of the World Wide Web for teaching, it is less frequently used for primary research. Science and Technology in the Making (STIM), a project supported by a two-year grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, experiments with exactly that: historical research over the Internet." "Most of the entries reside either at the Classic Chemistry site at Le Moyne College or on the historical papers section of John Park's ChemTeam site. Links to classic papers outside the Classic Chemistry site are clearly credited." "An interdisciplinary organization, SHOT is concerned not only with the history of technological devices and processes, but also with the relations of technology to science, politics, social change, the arts and humanities, and economics." " tephen Jay Gould (1941-2002) was among the best known and widely read scientists of the late 20th century. A paleontologist and educator at Harvard University, Gould made his largest contributions to science as the leading spokes-person for evolutionary theory. His monthly columns in Natural History magazine and his popular works on evolution have earned him numerous awards and one of the largest readerships in the popular-science genre — penning altogether over twenty successful books throughout his career." Extensive materials by and on the celebrated naturalist and social critic Alfred Russel Wallace (1823-1913), including the full-text of about 200 of his writings. "The Institute Archives serves as the collective memory of Caltech by preserving the papers, documents, artifacts and pictorial materials that tell the school's history, from 1891 to the present. Researchers will also find here a wealth of sources for the history of science and technology worldwide, stretching from the time of Copernicus to today." Arranged by topics. By Charles Darwin by Farnham Bishop ... illustrated with photographs and drawings. Published 1916 by Century in New York . Subtitle: Radium Research in Earlt 20th Century Vienna. Book by Maria Rentetzi The WWW guide. By Victor E Allemandy. the story of the Williamson submarine expedition. Published 1915 by Jarrold & sons in London . |
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