Title | Annotation |
|---|---|
| 19th Century Scientific American Online | Snippets from the first two volumes of Scientific American magazine. Very little information available and what is is of a frivolous nature. Not for research. Site has not been updates since 1997. |
| 4000 Years of Women in Science | This site compiles over 130 biographies of women scientists throughout the ages organized alphabetically, chronologically, and by discipline. A handful of images are also available, as is an extensive bibliography. Unfortunately most of the site has not been updated since 1999 and many of the off-site links are no longer valid. |
| A Man for All Bridges | Biography, sources, and related links. |
| A Run for Gustav Lindenthal | Essay by Steven Cangemi about Lindenthal's dream to construct a bridge across the Hudson River. |
| 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. |
| Abraham Darby | This page briefly details the life of bridge builder Abraham Darby. Though author Ian Beach focuses on Darby's career, work with iron, and response to new technologies, Beach also briefly explores the effect that Darby's Quakerism had on his life. Ten images, mostly of Darby's bridges, accompany the text. |
| African American Inventor Series | |
| African-American Inventors | |
| AIChE Histories of Engineering | |
| Albert Fink's Doomed Masterpiece | Letter dated 1861 from General A. S. Johnston ordering the destruction of the Green River Railway bridge. Also includes construction notes. |
| Album of Designs of the Phoenix Bridge Company | The Digital Bridges project at Lehigh University has archived and posted this 1885 publication in html, pdf, and tiff formats. The summary of affairs of the Phoenix Bridge Company and its subsidiaries provides a fascinating look into bridge and railroad technology in the 1880s. Though the majority of the book is text, many clear photographs of the company's work are interspersed between the typed pages. Any researchers of railroad and bridge history, as well as of the business of transportation, would do well to examine this document. |
| Album of Designs of the Phoenixville Bridge-Works | Facsimile of this 1873 publication of railway bridges. Produced by Clark, Reeves & Co. before change to Phoenix Bridge. Also available in pdf and tiff formats. |
| Album of Villard de Honnecourt | This is a University of Newcastle archive of Villard de Honnecourt's portfolio. Pages from Villard's notebook are available as separate digital photographs, though a web page with compressed versions of every image allows users to scan for a specific drawing. A "search by page number" feature has also been included. A history of Villard, a bibliography, and links to several websites can be found via a link at the bottom of the main web page. |
| Alexander Graham Bell Notebooks Project | This University of Virginia site contains one of Alexander Graham Bell's notebooks (1875-1876) from a critical phase in the invention of the telephone. The site primarily consists of about 100 quality images of diagrams from Bell's notebook. There are also data entries and brief notes (transcribed by the editor) available. Most of the experiments listed deal with electricity, magnetism and related metallurgic tests. Various circuits and electrical switches are explored in different configurations. |
| America's Railroads and Skyscrapers Indebted to Civil Engineer Squire Whipple | Essay on Whipple's development of the first scientifically based rules for bridge construction. |
| American Association for the Advancement of Science - History and Archives | |
| American Business and Technological History | |
| American Chemical Society - Division of History of Chemistry | This text-only site contains mostly administrative and publication information, such as how to join the Division of History of Chemistry of the American Chemical Society and a roster of officers. Most notable for scholars are the tables of contents of the Bulletin for the History of Chemistry going back to 1988. There are also lists of those who have received awards for their historical scholarship from the American Chemical Society, and a list of about a dozen links to other sites on the history of chemisty and the history of science in general. |
| American Microscopical Society | |
| American Museum of the Moving Image | The American Museum of the Moving Image is dedicated to educating the public about the art, history, technique, and technology of film, television, and digital media, and examines the impact on culture and society. This site includes information about the museum which is located in New York City, as well as information about collections and museum programming. Most notably, the site includes four online exhibits about the influence of new forms of media on elections, electronic games, the technology behind motion pictures, and an exhibit titled "The Interactive Playground." |
