Title | Annotation |
|---|---|
| 100 Years of Radio Web 1895-1995 | |
| 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 Mathematical Theory of Communication by Claude E. Shannon | |
| A Place in History: A Guide to Using GIS in Historical Research | |
| ABACUS II Integrated-Circuit Wire Bonder (1972) | |
| Ada Project (TAP) | |
| Ada: The Enchantress of Numbers | |
| African American Inventor Series | |
| African-American Inventors | |
| Alan Turing Archive | |
| Alan Turing Internet Scrapbook | |
| Alan Turning HomePage | Alan Turning (1912-1954) was a pioneering mathematician and philosopher of the mind who most famously worked on breaking Nazi codes and presaged developments in artificial intelligence and computer technology. This site conveys Turning's biography, providing a timeline and short prospectus of Turning's life. There is also a scrapbook that includes many photographs of Turning, diagrams of his mathematics and logic, and a large glossary of related historical terms and context. |
| Alexander Graham Bell Institute of University College of Cape Breton | An online collection of portions of the Bell Institute's holdings, which are largely reproductions from the Library of Congress. Contains a vast amount of documentation on topics which include correspondence, the Aerial Experiment Association, and lab notes. These are accessible by browsing drop down menus which allow one to choose collection, volume, and page. It also can be searched using predefined or custom keywords. The Bell Family Archive also contains a an image gallery of photos ranging from telephones to kites to family members. |
| 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. |
| Alexander Graham Bell's Path to the Telephone | This University of Virginia site uses flow charts to show Alexander Graham Bell's invention process for the telephone in the 1860s and 70s. The flow charts show which breakthroughs occurred when, and which innovations led to subsequent technological advances. Beyond showing Bell's invention process diagrammatically (and showing earlier Bell creations which helped him develop the telephone) the site contains a long essay on the historic invention of the telephone, with notes and references to offline works. |
| Alexander Graham Bell: The Man | |
| All about the Internet | |
| American Association for the Advancement of Science - History and Archives | |
| American Business and Technological History |
