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The National Park Service's online presence for the Edison National Historic Site is a repository for a large amount of Edisonia. This site is geared to be accessible to children, a resource for students, and also an engaging experience for adults. It makes available several of Edison's early sound and motion picture recordings, as well as hundreds of images, both personal and professional. A biography about Edison, and essays about his laboratory, inventions, and life away from science, written by NHS staff, provide compelling secondary material. A bibliography is posted for those interested in further research, and the site contains a list of Edison's astonishing 1,093 patents. A fun and interesting activity is a recreation of the "Edison Mental Fitness Test," which anyone hoping to be a manager in Edison's lab had to pass. An excellent site, useful for a variety of people and purposes.

This excellent site features 341 motion pictures, 81 disc sound recordings, and other related materials, such as photographs and original magazine articles documenting Thomas Edison's corporate impact on the history of American entertainment. Thomas Alva Edison (1847-1931)—prolific inventor, manufacturer, and businessman—patented 1,093 inventions, including the phonograph, the kinetograph (a motion picture camera), and the kinetoscope (a motion picture viewer). All are searchable by keyword, title, or subject; movies are presented in QuickTime, Mpeg and RealMedia formats and a capsule description of each film is provided. Special pages focus on the life of the great inventor and histories of Edison's contribution to motion picture and sound recording technologies. Part of the American Memory Collection at the Library of Congress, drawn from collections in the Library of Congress Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division.

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. A virtual tour of the Institute itself is available, as are a series of printable reproductions of games, diagrams, and experiments for children. An excellent resource for researchers interested in Bell.

This site includes a biography and timeline of Thomas Edison's life, as well as information about his experiments in the production and distribution of electric power in Brockton, Massachusetts. The site serves as a good summary of Edison's work and offers a useful background on the Brockton experiments which can be a starting point for further research.

Great source for information on scientific personas and activities during the Victorian era. Contains biographies of many scientists including Charles Darwin, Thomas Edison, Sigmund Freud, William Paley, Herbert Spencer, and Louis Agassiz. Overviews of scientific disciples are organized by Astronomy, Botany, Chemistry, Geology, Physics, Psychology, Mathematics, and Medicine. Links to both on and off-site reproductions of primary documents are available as are a diversity of images. A list of links to related sites, as well as a number of bibliographies are provided as well.

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.

This site relates a lot of information about the Boston museum itself. However, it also contains a FAQ which contains information of potential interest to researchers including a bibliography, chronology, specifications, and an engagement history.

Excellent source of secondary material about World War I. The narratives are well hyperlinked allowing easy movement between the chronological, biographical, geographical, and historical pages. Also included are sections on artists, literature, women, technology, and inventors. Links to other World War I sites are made available as well.

Website with information and links regarding the technological environment of the Victorian age, i.e. the Industrial Revolution, Mining, Information Technology, etc..