Links to Related Sites in the History of Technology

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Biomedical

http://www.history.nih.gov Museum of Medical Research

http://www.rhhct.org.uk/ Radiology History and Heritage Charitable Trust

Broadcasting

http://www.americanradiomuseum.org/site/ American Museum of Radio

http://www.acmi.net.au/AIC/MAGN_REC_CHRON.html" Chronology of Magnetic Recording

http://invention.smithsonian.org/resources/fa_clark_index.aspx Clark, George C. Radioana Collection

http://www.deadmedia.org/notes/index-cat.html Dead Recording Media

http://www.pbs.org/opb/crashcourse/ Digital TV: A Cringley Crash Course

http://www.earlytelevision.org/ Early Television Foundation

http://www.hammondmuseumofradio.org/ Hammond Museum of Radio

http://histv2.free.fr/ Histoire de la Television

http://www.ieee-uffc.org/ulmain.asp?page=bottom History of the Quartz Crystal Industry

http://www.mztv.com/ MZTV Museum of Television

http://history.acusd.edu/gen/recording/notes.html Recording Technology History

http://www.northwinds.net/bchris/index.htm Surfing the Aether: Radio, Broadcasting Technology History

http://www.tvhistory.tv/ Television History - The First 75 Years

http://earlyradiohistory.us/index.html United States Early Radio History

http://www.collectionscanada.ca/gramophone/index-e.html Virtual Gramophone

Communications

http://home.speedfactory.net/cardwell/index.html Atlanta Telephone History

http://www.antiquewireless.org/museum/museum.htm Antique Wireless Association Museum

http://www.bt.com/archives BT (British Telecom) history and archival resources.

http://www.connected-earth.com A Virtual museum of the history of telecommunications, from BT (British Telecom)

http://home.speedfactory.net/cardwell/index.html"

http://www.cclab.com/billhist.htm Bill's 200-Year Condensed History of Telecommunications

http://www.museumphones.com/ Cyber Telephone Museum

http://www.sff.net/people/Jeff.Hecht/chron.html Fiber Optics Chronology

http://www.atlantic-cable.com/ History of the Atlantic Cable; Submarine Telegraphy

http://www.mitmuseum.com/ Museum of Independent Telephony

http://www.postogtelemuseet.dk/ Post and Tele Museum, Copenhagen, Denmark

http://www.webbconsult.com/hist-time.html Telecom History

http://www.webbconsult.com/history.html Telecommunications History

http://www.telephonecollectors.org/ Telephone Collectors International

http://www.telephonetribute.com/ Telephone Tribute

http://www.telegraph-office.com/ Tribute to Morse Telegraphy

http://www.sil.si.edu/Exhibitions/Underwater-Web/ Underwater Web: Cabling the Seas (Smithsonian Site)

Computing

http://www.compustory.com/ American Computer Museum

http://www.acms.org.au/ Australian Computer Museum Society Inc.

http://www.bletchleypark.org.uk/ Bletchley Park

http://www.webcom.com/calc/ Calculating Machines

http://www.cbi.umn.edu/ Charles Babbage Institute

http://smithsonianchips.si.edu/ Chip Collection, The

http://www.computerhistory.org/ Computer History Museum

http://www.computer-museum.org/ Computer Museum of America

http://www.cra.org Computer Research Association

http://www.computer50.org/ Computer that Changed the World, The

http://www.seas.upenn.edu/~museum/ ENIAC 60 Anniversary Celebration

http://www.cyberstreet.com/hcs/ Historical Computer Society

http://www.cyberstreet.com/hcs/museum/museum.htm HCS Virtual Computer History Museum

http://irb.cs.tu-berlin.de/~zuse/hc.html History of Computing:Konrad Zuses Computers

http://ei.cs.vt.edu/~history/50th/30.minute.show.html IEEE Computer Society: Key Events in the History of Computing

http://ei.cs.vt.edu/~history/index.html J.A.N. Lee's History of Computing Page

http://library.stanford.edu/mac/index.html Making the Macintosh: Technology and Culture in Silicon Valley

http://www.library.upenn.edu/special/gallery/mauchly/jwmintro.html Mauchly and the Development of ENIAC

http://www.hpmuseum.org/ Museum of Hewlett-Packard Calculators

http://www.oldcalculatormuseum.com/ Old Calculator Web Museum

http://americanhistory.si.edu/csr/comphist/ SI/NMAH: Computer History Collection

http://www.softwarehistory.org/index.html Software History Center

http://www.pbs.org/transistor/index.html Transistorized

Consumer Electronics

http://www.digicamhistory.com DigicamHistory.Com

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/paul.linnell/sso/ Simply Switch on...!

Cool Stuff

http://www.brainpop.com BrainPOP

http://www.gallawa.com/microtech/history.html Brief History of the Microwave

http://www.dtekids.com The DTE Energy Kids Club

http://www.discoverengineering.org/default.asp Discover Engineering Online

http://www.exploratorium.org/ Exploratorium

http://www.exploratorium.edu/snacks/iconelectricity.html" Exploratorium Science Snacks - Electricity

http://www.faraday.org.uk/ Faraday Lecture Series

http://www.howstuffworks.com/ How Stuff Works

http://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/electromag/java/capacitor/ How a Capacitor Works

http://web.mit.edu/invent/index.html Invention Dimension!

http://www.lsc.org/ Liberty Science Center

http://www.electropolis.tm.fr Museum Electropolis

http://www.mos.org/home.html Museum of Science

http://www.nlsciencecentre.com/ Newfoundland Science Centre

http://www.nyhallsci.org/index.html New York Hall of Science

http://www.kidscastle.si.edu/ Smithsonian Institution's Kids' Castle

http://www.slsc.org St. Louis Science Center

http://www.morrismuseum.org/ The Morris Museum

http://spaceplace.jpl.nasa.gov/spacepl.htm The Space Place

http://www.toaster.org/index.html The Toaster Museum

http://www.theworks.org The Works

http://www.tryscience.org] Try Science

http://www.uspto.gov/web/offices/ac/ahrpa/opa/kids/index.html United States Patent and Trademark Office: Kids' Page

http://www.usfirst.org/ Is your school involved in the FIRST program? Learn more...

Corporate History

http://www.att.com/history/ AT&T: A Brief History

http://www.att.com/history/milestones.html AT&T Technology History

http://www.bbc.co.uk/heritage/ BBC History

http://www.bell-labs.com/history/ Bell Laboratories History

http://www.lucent.com/corpinfo/history.html Bell Labs/Lucent Technologies Heritage Page

http://www.ge.com/en/company/companyinfo/at_a_glance/history_story.htm GE Corporate History

http://www.hp.com/hpinfo/abouthp/histnfacts/index.html Hewlett Packard History

http://www-03.ibm.com/ibm/history/ IBM History

http://www.nasa.gov/centers/kennedy/home/index.html Kennedy Space Center

http://www.microsoft.com/visitorcenter/default.mspx Microsoft Visitors Center

http://www.motorola.com/content/0,,115-110,00.html Motorola Timeline

http://history.nasa.gov/index.html NASA History Office

http://www.rand.org/about/history/ RAND: 50 Years of Service to the Nation

http://www.davidsarnoff.org/rcaindex.htm RCA History

http://www.usa.siemensvdo.com/company.htm Siemens Corporation History

http://history.nasa.gov/index.html Tennessee Valley Authority: Electricity for All!

http://www.ti.com/corp/docs/company/history/tihistory.shtml Texas Instruments History

http://www.thomson.net/EN/Home/Group/thomson-history/ Thomson Corporation

http://www.westinghousenuclear.com/A1.asp Westinghouse History

http://ieee.cincinnati.fuse.net/reiman.html IEEE Cincinnati Section Historical Articles

http://www.globalmuseum.org/ Global Museum

http://mcel.pacificu.edu/JAHC/JAHCindex.HTM Journal of the Association for History and Computing

http://muse.jhu.edu/ Project MUSE

Electronic Journals

http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/technology_and_culture/ Technology and Culture

Electricity

http://www.thebakken.org Bakken Library and Museum

http://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/on-line/electron/index.asp Life, the Universe and the Electron

http://americanhistory.si.edu/powering/ Powering a Generation of Change (NMAH)

http://maxwell.byu.edu/~spencerr/phys442/node4.html Ridiculously Brief History of Electricity and Magnetism

http://history.hyperjeff.net/electromagnetism.html Sketches of a History of Classical Electromagnetism (Optics, Magnetism, Electricity, Electromagnetism)

http://www.mos.org/sln/toe/toe.html Theater of Electricity

http://jersey.uoregon.edu/vlab/Voltage/index.html Voltage Circuit Simulator

General

http://www.track0.com/canteach/links/linktechhist.html Canadian History of Technology

http://www.ou.edu/cas/hsci/rel-site.htm History of Science on the WWW

IEEE Organizational History

http://www.ieee.org/portal/cms_docs/society/eds/about/eds_anniversarybooklet.pdf 50 years of Electron Devices (PDF, 18.44 MB)

http://www.ieee.org/organizations/society/bt/online_exhibit.html History of IEEE Broadcast Technology

http://www.computer.org/portal/site/ieeecs/menuitem.c5efb9b8ade9096b8a9ca0108bcd45f3/index.jsp?&pName=ieeecs_level1&path=ieeecs/about/history&file=CShistory.xml&xsl=generic.xsl&amp History of IEEE Computer Society

" History http://www.ieeecss.org/about/history.html History of IEEE Control Systems Society

http://www.ewh.ieee.org/soc/emcs/50thAnniversary.html History of IEEE Electromagnetic Compatibility Society

http://www.grss-ieee.org/menu.taf?menu=AboutUs&detail=History History of IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society

http://www.ieee-ies.org/history/ History of IEEE Industrial Electronics Society

http://www.ieee.org/portal/site/leos/menuitem.c068a7b8deb7e828fb2275875bac26c8/index.jsp?&pName=leos_level1&path=leos/info&file=leos_history.xml&xsl=generic.xsl History of IEEE Laser Electro-Optics Society

">History http://ewh.ieee.org/soc/nps/history_npss.html History of IEEE Nuclear and Plasma Sciences Society

http://www.ieeeperu.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=146 History of IEEE Peru Section

http://www.pels.org/Comm/History/History.htm History of IEEE Power Electronics Society

http://www.ieee.org/portal/site/pes/menuitem.2b4756efb9a16c58fb2275875bac26c8/index.jsp?&pName=pes_level1&path=pes/subpages/about-folder&file=history.xml&xsl=generic.xsl History of IEEE Power and Energy Society

http://www.ewh.ieee.org/reg/3/history History of IEEE Region 3

http://www.ieee.ca/history/index.html History of IEEE Region 7 (IEEE Canada)

http://www.ewh.ieee.org/reg/10/history/history-main.html History of IEEE Region 10

http://www.ewh.ieee.org/tc/sensors/history.htm History of IEEE Sensors Council

http://www.signalprocessingsociety.org/about/society-history/ History of IEEE Signal Processing Society

http://sscs.org/History/council.htm History of IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society

http://www.ieeeusa.org/about/history.asp IEEE-USA History

http://www.ieee-uffc.org/fcmain.asp?view=history IEEE Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control Society

Internet

http://agora.qc.ca/rech_int2.html Histoire de l'Internet

http://www.lsoft.com/products/default.asp?item=listserv-history History of LISTSERV

http://www.w3.org/History.html History of the World Wide Web

http://www.isoc.org/zakon/Internet/History/HIT.html Hobbes' Internet Timeline

http://www.sheffcol.ac.uk/links/Internet/Basics_and_Background/ Internet Background and Basics

http://www.computerhistory.org/exhibits/internet_history/ Internet History: 1962-1992

http://keithlynch.net/timeline.html Keith Lynch's Timeline of Net Related Terms, Concepts, Stories, and People

http://www.columbia.edu/~hauben/netbook/ Netizens: On the History and Impact of the Net

http://thinkofit.com/plato/dwplato.htm#plato PLATO: The Emergence of Online Community

http://www.ibiblio.org/pioneers/cerf.html Vint Cerf: The Father of the Internet

Inventors

http://www.acmi.net.au/AIC/phd8100.html A D V E N T U R E S in C Y B E R S O U N D

http://www.turing.org.uk/turing/index.html Alan Turing

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/bellhtml/bellhome.html Alexander Graham Bell Family Papers at The Library of Congress

http://www3.iath.virginia.edu/albell/homepage.html Alexander Graham Bell's Path to the Telephone

http://www.users.fast.net/~blc/xlhome2.htm Blacks in Technology: Past and Present

http://www.lafavre.us/brush/brushbio.htm Charles Brush and the Arc Light

http://web.eecs.umich.edu/shannonstatue/ Claude Shannon Tribute

http://www.earlbakken.com/ Earl Bakken Biographical Website

http://www.edisonnj.org/menlopark/ Edison Memorial Tower and Menlo Park Museum

http://www.nps.gov/edis/ Edison National Historic Site

http://edison.rutgers.edu/ Edison, Thomas A. Papers (Rutgers University)

http://www.ieee.org/organizations/society/power/subpages/resources-folder/edison-folder/edison.htm Edison, Thomas A. Sesquicentennial Booklet

http://www.alberteinstein.info Einstein Archives Online

http://www.eepatents.com/feature/ Historical EE Patents

http://web.mit.edu/invent/ Invention Dimension

http://www.invent.org/ Inventure Place:National Inventors Hall of Fame

http://www.wiesner.research.umich.edu/jwiesner.html Jerome B. Wiesner

http://www.marconicalling.com/ Marconi Calling

http://web.mit.edu/invent/www/archive.html MIT Lemelson Invention Dimension

http://www.mercury.gr/tesla/introen.html Tesla (Nikola) Site

http://www.pbs.org/tesla/ Tesla: Master of Lightning!

http://www.pbs.org/nerds/ Triumph of the Nerds

http://www.greatbatch.com Wilson Greatbatch Ltd. History

Museums

http://historywired.si.edu/index.html from the National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution: "History Wired"

http://www.aip.org/history/ Center for the History of Physics

http://www.thebmi.org/ Baltimore Museum of Industry

http://www.sciencebuff.org/ Buffalo Museum of Science

http://www.davidsarnoff.org/ David Sarnoff Library

http://www.deutsches-museum-bonn.de/ Deutsches Museum - Bonn

http://www.deutsches-museum.de/e_index.htm Deutsches Museum - Munich

http://dibinst.mit.edu/ Dibner Institute and Burndy Library

http://www.icfcst.kiev.ua/museum/museum.html European Museum on Computer Science, Technology

http://www.fi.edu/ Franklin Institute

http://georgetownenergymuseum.org/ Georgetown Energy Museum

http://www.dtmb.de/index_en.html German Museum of Technology - Berlin

http://www.hagley.lib.de.us/ Hagley Museum and Library

" Heinz http://www.hnf.de/index_en.html" Heinz Nixdorf Museums Forum

http://www.hfmgv.org Henry Ford Museum, Greenfield Village

Historic http://www.parks.morris.nj.us/speedwell/temp_index.htm Historic Speedwell

http://www.hem-usa.org/ Historical Electronics Museum

http://www.infoage.org/ InfoAge Learning Center

http://www.intel.com/intel/intelis/museum/ Intel Museum

http://invention.smithsonian.org/home/ The Lemelson Center, Smithsonian Institution

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/amhome.html Library of Congress: American Memory

http://www.lindahall.org Linda Hall Library

http://web.mit.edu/museum/index.html MIT Museum

http://www.c-and-e-museum.org/ Military Communications and Electronics Museum

http://www.moah.org/index.html Museum of American Heritage

http://www.mhs.ox.ac.uk/ Museum of the History of Science, Oxford

http://www.msichicago.org/ Museum of Science and Industry

http://www.si.edu/nmah/ National Museum of American History

http://www.sciencetech.technomuses.ca/index1.cfm Natl.Museum of Science and Technology, Ottawa

http://www.nstm.gov.tw/english/index.asp National Science & Technology Museum, Taiwan, ROC

http://users.ids.net/~newsm/ New England Wireless and Steam Museum

http://www.pavekmuseum.org Pavek Museum of Broadcasting

http://www.rmk-museum.org.tr/english/index.html Rahmi M Koc Museum, Istanbul

http://www.the-robotman.com/nv_fs.html Robot Museum

http://www.schenectadymuseum.org/index.htm Schenectady Museum

http://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/ Science Museum, London

http://semiconductormuseum.com/Museum_Index.htm Semiconductor Museum

http://www.si.edu/ Smithsonian Institution

http://www.cidoc.icom.org/netref1.htm Sources of Information: Museums and the Internet

http://www.thetech.org/ Tech Museum of Innovation

http://www.synthmuseum.com/ Virtual Synthesizer Museum

http://www.uni-essen.de/internetguide/museen.html Virtuellen Museum fur Industriekultur

Oral History Collections

http://www.lib.auburn.edu/archive/find-aid/755ee.htm Auburn University EE Oral History Project

http://www.science.org.au/scientists/index.htm Australian Academy of Science Oral Histories

http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/BANC/ROHO/ Bancroft Library:Regional Oral History Office

http://www.lib.umd.edu/UMCP/LAB/transcript.html Broadcast Pioneers - Library of American Broadcasting

http://www.cbi.umn.edu/collections/oralhistories.html Charles Babbage Institute Oral History Program

http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/indiv/oral/ Columbia University Oral History Research Office

http://www.h-net.msu.edu/~oralhist/projects.html H-Net: H-OralHist Projects (By Subject)

http://www.indiana.edu/~cshm/ Indiana University Oral History Research Center

http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/history/oral_histories/oral_histories.htm Johnson Space Center Oral History Collection

http://oralhist.karelia.ru/ Karelia Oral Histories (in Russian)

http://www.aip.org/history/nblbro.htm Niels Bohr Library Oral History Interview Abstracts

http://omega.dickinson.edu/organizations/oha/ Oral History Association

http://infoshare1.princeton.edu/libraries/firestone/rbsc/finding_aids/mathoral/math.html Princeton Mathematics Community in the 1930s: An Oral History Project

http://fas-history.rutgers.edu/oralhistory/orlhom.htm Rutgers University Oral History Archives of World War II

http://www.nasm.si.edu/research/dsh/ohp-introduction.html Smithsonian Institution:National Air & Space Museum

http://www.invention.smithsonian.org/resources/default_oralandvideo.aspx Smithsonian Institution: Lemelson Center

http://library.tamu.edu/cushing/collectn/oralhist/oral/am.html Texas A&M University Collection

http://www.library.ucla.edu/libraries/special/ohp/ohpindex.htm UCLA Oral History Program

http://www.oralhistory.uconn.edu/ University of Connecticut Center for Oral History

http://www.lib.iastate.edu/spcl/wise/wise.html WISE Archive: Oral History Project

Professional Organizations

http://www.aes.org/aeshc/ Audio Engineering Society Historical Committee

http://www.epri.com/ Electric Power Research Institute

http://www.hkn.org/ Eta Kappa Nu

http://www.feani.org/ FEANI: European Federation of National Engineering Associations

http://www.hssonline.org/ History of Science Society

http://www.icohtec.org/ ICOHTEC: International Committee for the History of Technology

http://www.isoc.org/ Internet Society (ISOC)

http://www.iee.org/ Institution of Electrical Engineers (UK)

http://www.mercurians.org/ The Mecurians

http://www.nist.gov National Institute of Standards & Technology

http://www.newcomen.com/index.htm Newcomen Society

http://www.historyoftechnology.org/ SHOT: Society for the History of Technology

http://www.wrhs.org Western Reserve Historical Society

Timelines

http://www.historychannel.com/timeline/ History Channel Technology Timeline

http://www.spacetoday.org/History/MillenniumTimeline/MillenniumTimeline.html Millennium Timeline of Space and Astronomy

http://www.aronsson.se/hist.html Telecom Timeline

Women in Engineering

http://www.umbc.edu/cwit/index.html Center for Women & Information Technology

http://www.engineeringwomen.org/stories.html Extraordinary Women Engineers

http://ei.cs.vt.edu/~history/Hopper.Danis.html Grace Murray Hopper

http://www.ieee.org/organizations/committee/women/ IEEE Women in Engineering Committee

http://www.iwt.org Institute for Women and Technology

http://www.eweek.org/site/News/Eweek/girlsday.shtml Introduce a Girl to Engineering Day

http://www.cs.yale.edu/homes/tap/past-women-cs.html Past Notable Women of Computing

http://www.swe.org Society of Women Engineers

http://www.lib.iastate.edu/spcl/wise/wise.html WISE Archives on Women: Oral History Project

http://quest.arc.nasa.gov/women/intro.html Women of NASA

http://echo.gmu.edu/wise/ Women in Science and Engineering