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The History of Computing Project

Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 11/08/2007 - 20:25.
  • Ancient (BCE-40 CE)
  • Computers/Information Technology
  • Contemporary (Post-WWII)
  • Early Modern (15th-18th Century)
  • Images
  • Links
  • Middle Ages (5th-15th Century)
  • Modern (18th-20th Century)
  • Non-Profit
  • Secondary Source
URL: 

http://www.thocp.net/

Excerpt: 

the History of Computing Project

Companies that created most of the mile stones in the computing industry
Biographies of computer poioneers and inventors
Timeline of the main events in the history of computing
Hardware developments that made an impact on the development of computers
Software that set a trend in the development of computing
History of Video games

Annotation: 

The History of Computing Project is a non-profit, collaborative initiative "to record and publish the history of the computer and its roots in the broadest sense of the word." The site is a large collection of short reports divided into six subcategories: Companies, biographies, timeline, hardware, software, and video games. The site contains many images that supplement the historical text, and there are links to outside sources. The site is growing and as the editors add information to address all of their topics completely, this site will become a one stop source for any computer background topic. As it is, the site is large enough to seem a little unwieldy, and it is not searchable, but the division of categories, and the occasional alphabetical or chronological index, organizes the material into segments that are more accessible.

Ingenious: Seeing Things Differently

Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 11/08/2007 - 20:25.
  • Contemporary (Post-WWII)
  • Educational
  • Exhibit
  • Images
  • Library/Archive
  • Links
  • Modern (18th-20th Century)
  • Primary Source
URL: 

http://www.ingenious.org.uk/

Author: 
National Museum of Science and Industry
Excerpt: 

Ingenious is a new website that brings together images and viewpoints to create insights into science and culture. It weaves unusual and thought-provoking connections between people, innovations and ideas.  Drawing on the resources of NMSI, the site contains over 30,000 images which are used to illustrate over 30 different subjects, topics and debates.

History of the Health Sciences Web Resources

Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 11/08/2007 - 20:25.
  • Ancient (BCE-40 CE)
  • Contemporary (Post-WWII)
  • Early Modern (15th-18th Century)
  • Images
  • Library/Archive
  • Links
  • Medicine/Behavioral Science
  • Middle Ages (5th-15th Century)
  • Modern (18th-20th Century)
  • Professional Association
URL: 

http://www.mla-hhss.org/histlink.htm#his

Excerpt: 

History of the Health Sciences World Wide Web Links

Organizations in the History of the Health Sciences
History of the Health Sciences Libraries and Archives
History of the Health Sciences Educational Programs
Organizations and Museums with History of the Health Sciences Interests
Important Figures in Health Sciences - Their Lives & Works
Databases
Links Pages
Oaths, Prayers and Symbols
For Children
The History of Diseases
Bibliographies/Chronologies/Histories
Listservs
Newsgroups
Journals

WWW Virtual Library Economic and Business History

Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 11/08/2007 - 20:25.
  • Business and Industry
  • Contemporary (Post-WWII)
  • Early Modern (15th-18th Century)
  • Library/Archive
  • Links
  • Modern (18th-20th Century)
URL: 

http://www.neha.nl/w3vl/resources.html#intech

Excerpt: 

History of Economic Thought | Industrial & Technical History | Personal Pages | World Fairs | Accounting History | Economic and Business History |

History of Economic Thought

Adam Smith Page at the University of Texas at Dallas. Bio- and bibliographical information.
Akamac E-text Links Links to texts to 400 historically important economists and related theorists in philosophy, political science and other social sciences.
Archival Resources in the History of Economics maintained by the History of Economics Society. Searchable database of over 70 important collections.
August Ludwig von Schloezer: Briefwechsel This site contains a digital version of a collection of letters of August Ludwig Schlözer Briefwechsel, meist historischen und politischen Inhalts (Göttingen 1778). Schlözer (1735-1809) was an German enlightened historian, statistician and philogist. The work consists of five volumes with an index.

Business History

Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 11/08/2007 - 20:25.
  • Business and Industry
  • Consumer Technology
  • Contemporary (Post-WWII)
  • Library/Archive
  • Links
  • Modern (18th-20th Century)
URL: 

http://www.lib.umd.edu/MCK/GUIDES/business_history.html#INTERNET

Excerpt: 

Business History
Scope: This is a categorized and annotated list of selected cross discipline information sources for doing research on the history of business. Email the subject area specialist at lg30@umail.umd.edu or call 301-405-9278 for more information.

Table of Contents

Subject Headings
Guides to the Literature
Chronologies and Encyclopedias
Bibliographies
Biographical Information Sources
Corporation Reports
Company and Industry Overviews
Periodical Indexes
Federal Government Publications
Statistical Information Sources
Internet Sites
Other Information Sources

Memoir of a Homebrew Computer Club Member

Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 11/08/2007 - 20:25.
  • Computers/Information Technology
  • Contemporary (Post-WWII)
  • Images
  • Links
  • Personal
  • Primary Source
URL: 

http://www.bambi.net/bob/homebrew.html

Author: 
Bob Lash
Excerpt: 

My first exposure to computers was at age 6 (1963), as a subject in Dr. Patrick Suppes' accelerated mathematics experiment at Stanford. I was taken to a small room with what I now know was a CRT display and an intercom. I was asked to push some keys in response to some shapes on the screen. Afterwards, they showed me around a large room filled with big cabinets, some with lots of blinking white lights. They said it was a "computer" and its name was the "PDP-1". A tall thin man asked me to hit a key on a console to make a "decktape". I had absolutely no idea what a "DEC tape" was at the time, but when I hit the key, a small pair of reels BEGAN TO TURN!! It was a moment I would never forget.

Annotation: 

This site is an informal memoir written by Bob Lash, an early member of the Homebrew Computer Club. Homebrew was a computer hobbyist group made famous by contributing to the success of two of it's members, Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniac. The site is definitely geared toward enthusiasts who are familiar with the early technology, but those who can invest the time to learn the lingo will find a rich source of information about the underground technology scene that inspired the development of personal computing in the mid-1970s. The site is basic with a simple text narrative wrapped around a few graphics. The links in the site lead mostly to a few images, but there are some links that point to the sites of other early members of the Homebrew community.

University Libraries Special Collections

Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 11/08/2007 - 20:25.
  • Contemporary (Post-WWII)
  • Early Modern (15th-18th Century)
  • Images
  • Library/Archive
  • Links
  • Medicine/Behavioral Science
  • Modern (18th-20th Century)
  • Primary Source
  • Secondary Source
URL: 

http://www.umdnj.edu/librweb/speccoll/special_collections.html

Excerpt: 

The University Libraries medical history resources are located within Special Collections at the George F. Smith Library of the Health Sciences on the Newark Campus, but serve the entire University and state of New Jersey. Primary clientele are UMDNJ faculty, staff, and students. Service is also provided to researchers throughout the state and elsewhere, both nationally and internationally. Special Collections consists of the Barbara Manisty Peck History of Medicine Room, which serves as a resource center for biomedical history in general and the history of the health sciences in New Jersey in particular, and the Stanley S. Bergen, Jr., MD University Archives. The Bergen University Archives documents both the history of the University from its founding in 1954 as the Seton Hall College of Medicine & Dentistry, as well as New Jersey's medical heritage. Special Collections is the only collection in the state entirely devoted to providing resources in the history of medicine in New Jersey.

Annotation: 

The University Libraries of the University of Medicine and Dentistry in New Jersey maintains this site to provide researchers with information about its special collections resources. The collections available at the library include university archives, faculty papers, various manuscripts, oral histories, post cards, medical artifacts, and a New Jersey AIDS collection. Only certain segments of the site are searchable, but the site is easy to navigate and their are several helpful finding guides. Historians of medicine and those interested in regional or state-specific records would be well served by this library, and the site can be a useful tool for identifying the availability of desired information before making a research trip.

4000 Years of Women in Science

Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 11/08/2007 - 20:25.
  • Ancient (BCE-40 CE)
  • Consumer Technology
  • Contemporary (Post-WWII)
  • Early Modern (15th-18th Century)
  • Images
  • Links
  • Middle Ages (5th-15th Century)
  • Modern (18th-20th Century)
  • Physical Sciences
  • Secondary Source
  • University
URL: 

http://www.astr.ua.edu/4000ws/

Excerpt: 

4,000 years of women in science! Did you know that? Women are, and always have been, scientists. This site lists over 125 names from our scientific and technical past. They are all women! This site grew out of the public talks given by Dr. Sethanne Howard, currently with the National Science Foundation. As we learn more, we add it to this page. We hope you will share what you know with us. This includes inventors, scholars and writers as well as mathematicians and astronomers. We hope you enjoy learning about some of these women.

Annotation: 

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. Some of the entries give summaries of the women's lives, their significant, and provide links to further online resources devoted that scientist. Other features of the site include an interactive quiz, crossword puzzle, and a long list of links to related sites.

History of the Royal College of General Practitioners

Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 11/08/2007 - 20:25.
  • Contemporary (Post-WWII)
  • Educational
  • Government
  • Links
  • Medicine/Behavioral Science
  • Secondary Source
URL: 

http://www.rcgp.org.uk/history/index.asp

Excerpt: 

The College of General Practitioners was founded in 1952, The Practitioner described it as ‘an outstanding event in the history of British medicine.’ A claim that can best be understood in relation to the history of general practice in Britain and its troubled state in the years immediately following the introduction of the National Health Service in 1948.

Annotation: 

This large site contains much information about the institutional workings of the Royal College of General Practitioners in Great Britain. The site describes the establishment of general practice (primary care/family medicine) as a speciality and academic discipline. Background information is given concerning the history of general practice, foundation of the College, history of the College and its building, and a detailed chronology. The archives of the college also include institutional records, personal papers, photographs and recordings, although only a guide to these resources is available online. This site would be helpful to wide range of historians, especially those interested in the history of modern medicine in Great Britain or events following the shift in British medicine to fit the newly established national health system.

Elizabeth Blackwell: That Girl There is Doctor of Medicine

Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 11/08/2007 - 20:25.
  • Biographical
  • Educational
  • Exhibit
  • Images
  • Library/Archive
  • Life Sciences
  • Links
  • Medicine/Behavioral Science
  • Modern (18th-20th Century)
  • Primary Source
  • Secondary Source
URL: 

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/hmd/blackwell/index.html

Excerpt: 

On the morning of Tuesday, January 23, 1849, a young woman ascended the platform of the Presbyterian church in Geneva, N.Y., and received from the hands of the President of Geneva Medical College a diploma conferring upon her the degree of Doctor of Medicine. Thus, after many years of determined effort, Elizabeth Blackwell became the first woman to complete a course of study at a medical college and receive the M.D. degree.

Annotation: 

This is an online companion to an exhibit on Elizabeth Blackwell, the first female M.D., that was held in 1999 at the National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland. The site is well designed and easily navigated. The exhibit contains a narrative description of Elizabeth Blackwell's college career, and there are some images of documents such as her Geneva Medical College diploma; however, the images do not have enough resolution to be easily used as a primary sources online. The site is a good background source, and the captions of the images have references to the location of the original documents for visitors who are interested in pursuing further research.

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