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Greatest Engineering Achievements of the 20th Century
The top twenty achievements in terms of their impact on the quality of life, chosen by the National Academy of Engineering and its collaborators.
www.greatachievements.org
Museum of the History of Science, University of Oxford
Includes a collection of historic scientific instruments.
www.mhs.ox.ac.uk
Institute and Museum of History and Science - Florence, Italy
Collection includes the apparatus and scientific instruments of the Medici and the Lorenese collection of instrument and didactic and experimental devices.
galileo.imss.firenze.it
Today in Science History
Features births, deaths, and events in the history of science, invention, and technology.
www.todayinsci.com
Art of Renaissance Science: Galileo and Perspective
Explores the science of the Italian Renaissance and how Galileo's mathematics influenced the artwork of Renaissance painters and architects.
www.mcm.edu/academic/galileo/ars/arshtml/arstoc.html
Ernst Haeckel: Kunstformen der Natur
Scans of Haeckel's 1899-1904 scientific illustrations.
caliban.mpiz-koeln.mpg.de/~stueber/haeckel/kunstformen/natur.html
Australian Science Archives Project (ASAP)
Locates, sorts, and indexes the archival records of Australian scientists and scientific institutions.
www.asap.unimelb.edu.au
Science Odyssey, A
Companion site to the PBS series which takes a look back at the scientific and technological discoveries of the twentieth century.
www.pbs.org/wgbh/aso
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration History
Stories, poems, art, and biographies from the United States' oldest science agency.
www.history.noaa.gov
History of Science/Science Studies Reference Sources
A bibliography listing a wide range of reference sources for science and technology studies and the history of science.
gort.ucsd.edu/ds/initial.html
GeoClio
History of geology and the geosciences.
geoclio.st.usm.edu
Transistorized!
Learn how clashing egos and top secret research went into the invention of the transistor, perhaps the most important invention of the 20th century.
www.pbs.org/transistor
RaceSci: History of Race in Science
Collecting news and scholarship about the changing notion of "race" in science, medicine, and technology.
www.racesci.org
History of Science Portal, The
Find selected Wikipedia articles, photographs, and categories related to the history of science.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:History_of_science
Epact: Scientific Instruments of Medieval and Renaissance Europe
Collection of early scientific instruments from four European museums.
www.mhs.ox.ac.uk/epact
Genealogy of Influence [read review]
Offers a visualization of the connections between the most influential writers, artists, philosophers, scientists, and mathematicians of Western culture.
www.mike-love.net
Remote Sensing in History
observe.arc.nasa.gov/nasa/exhibits/history/history_0.html
European Enlightenment: The Scientific Revolution
Period associated with natural science and technological change. It was also a period of changes in the structure of European thought itself.
www.wsu.edu:8000/~dee/ENLIGHT/SCIREV.HTM
ExNet On-line: Science and Technology
Heroes of science and technology, from the Industrial Revolution to Thomas Crapper, with a particular emphasis on the U.K.
www2.exnet.com/magsample/science.html
IEEE History Center
Maintains many useful resources for the engineer, the historian of technology, and anyone interested in the development of electrical and computer engineering and their role in modern society.
www.ieee.org/organizations/history_center