Title | Annotation |
|---|---|
| 1492: An Ongoing Voyage | |
| A Brief History of Photography and the Photographic Process | |
| A History of World Space Development | |
| 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 | |
| About Goddard Space Flight Center | This site from NASA contains a brief biography and photograph of the physicist and "father of modern rocket propulsion," Robert Hutchings Goddard. Among the many firsts by Goddard listed, is the first liquid fuel rocket (1926), which led to the development of military missiles and the possibility of space exploration. A link on the liquid fueled rocket leads to several photographs and engineering sketches and an account of its inaugural flight. Statistics (size, employees, locations, funding, milestones) about the NASA center which is named after Goddard are also available. |
| Agricultural Research Timeline | |
| AIDS History | In their own words documents how NIH researchers answered such questions when asked to recall the early days of HIV/AIDS. In launching this Web site, we commemorate the 20-year struggle to confront the deadly HIV/AIDS pandemic. The site provides the full text oral history transcripts from medical doctors who were involved in the search for and cure of the HIV/AIDS virus from the earliest years of its discovery. A chronology and image archive accompany the site. |
| Air Force Technology | |
| Albert Einstein's FBI File | |
| Alexander Graham Bell Family Papers | This site offers nearly 5,000 facsimile items from the large collection of Alexander Graham Bell Family papers. Materials include scientific notebooks, blueprints, articles and speeches written by Bell, seven photographs, more than 3,000 letters to and from Bell and members of his family, and even a few poems Bell wrote as a child. Bell's correspondence includes over 100 letters between Bell and Helen Keller or between Bell and others discussing Keller. The collection may be searched by subject, name, keyword, or series. |
| All About Snow | |
| American Experience: The Telephone | A web presence for the American Experience's documentary about the telephone. Online resources include capsules on Alexander Graham Bell, Elisha Gray, Thomas Alva Edison, Thomas A. Watson and their relationship to the development of the telephone; accounts of significant events in the development of the telephone; and gallery of phones from different eras. The site also has a more general "Technology Timeline," a page devoted to forgotten inventors, and links to other American Experience sites. |
| American Museum of Natural History (New York City) | |
| American Revolution and Its Era: Maps and Charts of North America and the West Indies, 1750-1789 | This American Memory site records the mapping of North America and the Caribbean from 1750 to 1789 through images of maps in the Geography and Map Division of the Library of Congress. Most items on the site are also included among the 2000 images in Maps and Charts of North America and the West Indies, 1750-1789: A Guide to the Collections of the Library of Congress, compiled by John R. Sellers and Patricia Molen van Ee (1981). Currently the site contains roughly 2000 images. Maps and charts will be added to the online exhibit gradually. |
| Apollo Lunar Surface Journal | This site documents the NASA Apollo missions to the moon from 1969-1972. The site includes mission summaries, crew bios, flight plans, communication transcripts, and more. Special features of the site are video and audio files, and supplemental commentary by most of the Apollo astronauts. Technical descriptions of the tools and equipment help readers understand the astronauts' work. This site offers a large collection of materials concerning the nuts and bolts of the Apollo flights with some supplemental historical background added for context. |
| ARMY NURSE CORPS HISTORY | |
| Asteroid Radar history | |
| Astronomy Picture of the Day Archive | |
| Atlas of Mars |
