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In 1901 divers working off the isle of Antikythera found the remains of a clocklike mechanism 2,000 years old.
The mechanism now appears to have been a device for calculating the motions of stars and planets.

Few today are aware of the role that telegraphers played in providing global communications and operating the railroad system in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. These "wizards of the wire" enabled ordinary small-town people to receive news and personal messages from afar; they prevented railroad collisions and enabled trains to run on time.

For those who remember the work of the telegraph operators, the image that comes to mind is generally that of a male, since women, according to a still-common misconception, "didn't do that kind of work." Yet in 1897, B. B. Adams, editor of Railroad Gazette, could state that at railroad stations "where the business has increased enough to warrant the employment of an assistant, a young woman to do the telegraphing is frequently the first helper employed." This website provides research resources for telegraphy and women's participation in this early technical occupation, and also provides links to related sites.

ASAP is an organisation that aims to provide access to Australia's scientific, technological and medical heritage. It has links with Australia's major scientific and cultural institutions including the National Library of Australia, Australian Archives, the Australian Academy of Science and the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering.

Quoting from Upside "Our list of the 100 most influential people in the digital age. After much internal cacophony and only a few casualties, UPSIDE's editorial board presents the 1997 edition of the UPSIDE's Elite 100. We chose them from a pool of digerati nominated by a select group of industry analysts and experts (thanks, but no thanks, for all those self-nominations, folks). This year we used a new approach: We rated our virtuosos according to their influence within their industry segment. This keeps skilled newcomers such as Katrina Garnett and Steve Perlman from being drowned out by soloists Andy Grove and Masayoshi Son. Let us know if you enjoy the resulting performance."

The Cold War was only beautiful once, and that was during the race to space. Because after the Russians fired Sputnik across our bow in October 1957, and generals and presidents fretted over great missile silos in the sky, there were others who just wanted to see whose guys could fly the highest. When Yuri Gagarin (above) went first, America countered with its first real heroes since the war: The Mercury Seven. Alan Shepard was the first American to go up, in '61; John Glenn went up and around and around and around, and we all craned our necks and cheered and made him a senator. We saw blood on the launchpad after three were burned alive right on the ground; we saw footprints on the moon, back in 1969 when something like a moon landing could still get an 80 share (what were the other 20 percent watching?). And of course there was the Challenger in 1986, that awful fire in the sky. But we won. And we've been lucky. And we've used the moon for a driving range. Now for the planets, and the stars in the sky at night.

This is one of the most comprehensive summaries of the History of Telecommunications available on the Web.
It was created by a team of students of Communications Engineering at FHTE (Fachhochschule für Technik Esslingen, Germany) under the leadership of our lecturer in Technical English, Terry Wynne. We have collected all the information on the background of our studies and want to make it available to anyone who is interested in this field.

The "magnificent little workhorse" Delta rocket is one of the world's most reliable expendable launch vehicles. Delta has been a mainstay of the U.S. rocket stable since its introduction in 1960. This site looks at Delta's development and evolution, contains the most complete and up-to-date flight log available, and gives the latest news and a schedule of upcoming launches.

Items posted:
"Would Introductory Chemistry Courses Work Better with a New Philosophical Basis?" (revised version) Submitted to Foundations of Chemistry, January, 2003.
· "How Dynamic Aggregates May Achieve Effective Integration." Joseph E. Earley, Sr. Advances in Complex Systems, in press, 2003.

This page provides information about internet resources (persons, institutes, groups and journals) on research into the nature of the biological sciences, their theoretical foundations, general theoretical biology, and related areas of research. Please help to make this site as useful as possible!

These pages are mainly intended to be a repository of historical material relating to the fossil Archaeopteryx lithographica.

The pages are divided into four parts, which can be navigated by using the menu bar above:

- In the Archaeopteryx section, there are some articles about Archaeopteryx, historical sources, and a few links to useful sites.
- A second part of the site is devoted to the Danish artist-cum-paleontologist Gerhard Heilmann, whose famous book The Origin of Birds became the common opinion about the origin of birds for over forty years after its appearance in 1926.
- Thirdly, some space (albeit not much at the moment) is reserved for information about the Argentinian paleontologist Florentino Ameghino.
- Finally, there is a section about my Ph.D. Project, "Scientific Societies in the Second Golden Age of Dutch Science, 1850-1914".