Title | Annotation |
|---|---|
| 1492: An Ongoing Voyage | |
| 150 Years of Anesthesia 1846-1996 | This site, produced by the Massachusetts General Hospital, examines the history of the first anesthesia, ether. Discovered as an aid to sedate patients in the middle of the nineteenth century, its use was heralded as a breakthrough which would lead to a new, better age of surgery. The 7 short essays on this site, written for a general audience, discuss the discovery of ether, the doctors involved, its use at Massachusetts General Hospital, and the subsequent history and future of anesthesiology. A few photographs and drawings of related materials are included. |
| 1882 Transit of Venus | |
| 1895 Look At Nursing | |
| 18th Century Observatories of Maharaja Sawai Jai Singh II | |
| 4000 Years of Women in Science | This site documents the history of women in science by providing a long list of biographies including female scientists from a range of disciplines. The site design is old and the navigation is basic, but a large amount of information on certain individuals is available throught this site and its links. The site offers a short introduction, the biographies, a few images, and a bibliography. Visitors can select whether to browse the biographies alphabetically, by date of birth, or by field. The site boasts more than 100 records, but many are one-sentence descriptions which are not useful. |
| 4000 Years of Women in Science | |
| A Brief History of Electrocardiography | |
| A Condensed History of Homeopathy | |
| A History of World Space Development | |
| A Little History of the World Wide Web | This site provides a detailed chronology of the birth and growth of the world wide web. Its pages include links to descriptions of documents and in some cases, the documents themselves, including Tim Berners-Lee's original proposal to create the WWW, press announcements of mergers, and home pages of key individuals in the history of the web. Each year of the chronology includes information about contemporary events that occurred at or near the same time as innovations and advances in world wide web technologies and access. |
| A Man for All Bridges | Biography, sources, and related links. |
| A Place in History: A Guide to Using GIS in Historical Research | |
| A Run for Gustav Lindenthal | Essay by Steven Cangemi about Lindenthal's dream to construct a bridge across the Hudson River. |
| A Thin Blue Line: The History of the Pregnancy Test Kit | A Thin Blue Line: The History of the Pregnancy Test Kit, an online exhibit at the National Institutes of Health, explores the history of the pregnancy test kit from the laboratory to the digital age and invites women to share their personal stories through an online survey. In addition to the scientific background on the research that led to the development of the test, it also includes an historical timeline of pregnancy testing, as well as early advertisements for the test and portrayals of the test in television. |
| A Walk Through Time: The Evolution of Time Measurement through the Ages | |
| A.A. Brill Library of the New York Psychoanalitic Institute | |
| ABACUS II Integrated-Circuit Wire Bonder (1972) | |
| Abacus in Various Number Systems |
