Society, History, By Topic, Science, Engineering and Technology
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- The history of power development at Niagara Falls. Includes a timeline, a hot-linked schematic of a power house installation, and short biographies of key power pioneers.
- Timeline with images of each model
- A companion to the PBS series, the site explores the engineering principles, design challenges, and stories behind some of the most remarkable achievements in the history of building.
- A description of vaious methods of producing synthetic speech experimented with between 1770 and 1970. Includes auditory illustrations.
- Chart of inventions and discoveries, with comparisons with their Western equivalents.
- Patents developed by faculty at NC State University and selected items from NCSU Libraries? collection of related materials.
- Includes timelines and historical essays of the top 20.
- Pictures, documents, technical information, and links relating to webmaster's professional and pastime interests in early audio, video and television developments.
- An exploration of the technology Twain refers to in his novel, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court. site was constructed as part of a Summer Institute at Carnegie Mellon University.
- Negative comments about new scientific and technological ideas.
- Traces the development of verbal and non-verbal communication through human history, from prehistoric cave drawings to satellite broadcast.
- Features civil engineering historic sites and engineers who made a significant impact on civil engineering in Canada.
- An illustrated history of logging and sawmills in the US provided by Ed Sanders.
- Links to many types of resources
- Medieval technology and various inventions and developments involving everyday life in the Middle Ages.
- Miscellaneous links to technology topics.
- Summary with links to related articles.
- The SWEHS is interested in electricity history and industrial archeology with particular reference to the supply, generation and distribution of electricity in the South Western area of England.
- Illustrated article on the engineering enterprise of the Roman engineer. Includes aqueducts, pipes, valves, and pumps.
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- Resources on the world's fairs held from 1876 to 1916 focusing on how they shaped American culture by presenting idealized visions of the past and future that often ignored minority viewpoints.
- Includes photos of astrolabes, , protractors, drawing tools, and book covers that were created from the 15th to 18th centuries. Includes general specifications of each item within a table chart.
- Online facsimile of an eighteenth century book by Masuda Tsuna, translated by Zenryu Shirakawa.
- A single event from this date in the history of technology. Published weekdays, from the Center for the Study of Technology and Society.
- Database of pages about the history of science, technology, sociology, computers and medicine.
- Books, articles and consultancy on industrial archaeology and the history of technology, engineering and metallurgy. Text in Dutch and English.
- Online texts of historical documents relating to the history of the steam engine.
- All about the history, status, and future of communications technology.
- Digital archive of 20th century technology.
- Article in the Telegraph reporting that archaeologists have found evidence that Cistercian monks in Yorkshire were developing a prototype blast furnace when they were evicted by the king in 1538.
- Features snapshot images from a late 19th century book of terms for mechanical devices. Illustrates the state of technology during that era. Includes photos and searchable index. Most links are in DjVu format.
- Covers a number of popular inventions through history from the 15th to the 20th century.
- The history of the invention of the world's first automatic totalizator in 1913 and its subsequent development. Mechanical computing on a commercial scale.
- An online museum dedicated to world's fair history, architecture, and memorabilia.
- The astronomical clock at Hampton Court Palace by the author of the original guide book, and including many details and fascinating facts and discoveries omitted from the guide book.
- Many links
- Radio program that tells the story of how our culture is formed by human creativity. Features transcripts for every episode heard since the show's inception in 1988.
- Possibly the last working steam engine in the world. Is used to power the brewery in a town in the UK. Page gives short history, specifications and tasks accomplished by this antique machinery.
- Article explores early radio broadcasting efforts by the United States and the Soviet Union.
- Database of notes written and researched by mailing members pertaining to various forms of media and communications devices throughout history.
- Describes Arabic original inventions and improvements in chemical processes and mechanical engineering
- Timelines through 1970s.
- From the University of California, Riverside.
- Chronicle many of the events, inventions, and notable persons that made radio what it is, and asks if lessons learned from this history can be applied to the Internet today.
- Discusses early people and items used to make early audio and video devices from the first record players to digital television. Includes additional resource links.
- An illustrated history of timekeeping from ancient times to the present, by NIST
- A timeline that shows the inventions created by the company over the years like the light bulb and household appliances. Included are information about the founder, George Westinghouse, and world events during those periods. Requires Quicktime plugin.
- Covers the history of modern day adding devices from 1885 with the "Marconi Box" with rubber bands and wires to electrical motor driven machines of the 1940's. Discusses styles of computing throughout this period.
- Dates and descriptions of some important events in the history of technology, from prehistory through modern times.
- Discovered the rotating magnetic field, the basis of most alternating-current machinery. Als, invented the Tesla coil, that is widely used in radios. Includes biography, list of inventions, photos, and quotes.
- Timeline of the major events of statistical mechanics and thermodynamics. Includes links to biographies and a complete bibliography.
- A small museum in Wales covering the development of the diesel engine in the 20th century. Includes photos, history and descriptions of these types of motors.
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