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This site examines the history of vehicles (mostly automobiles) powered by electricity rather than by an internal combustion engine. Providing an overview of the technology and its development, this site includes several recent articles on electric vehicles as well as important historical pieces. Most significantly, the site encourages current and former owners and drivers of electric vehicles to contribute their recollections to a lasting archive. That growing archive contains stories from the early days of electric-powered vehicles from engineers, early adopters and others involved with their production and use. The site is useful for understanding the goals, attitudes, successes and failures of current and former electric vehicle advocates.

Contains an account of the life and work of Albrecht Von Haller, with bibliography. Site is entirely in German.

This site gives some brief information about the Australian Academy of Science and provides a description of manuscripts housed in the Academy's Basser Library. The site also contains an alphabetical index of the materials in the manuscript collection, which could be an important planning tool for researchers interested in taking a trip to the Library to do research with the papers first-hand. However, the actual manuscripts have not been made available online, so there is no historical information beyond the descriptions and index.

The website for the University of Michigan's Center for the History of Medicine contains several areas of potential interest to researchers. An exhibit on polio contains a narrative about the disease and Dr. Thomas Francis' work against it, as well as many photographs and a bibliography. A listing of the university's historical medical films is available. There is also an interactive timeline regarding the history of the UM Medical School, and several links to related sites.

The Institute Archives serves as Caltech's collective memory, preserving the papers, documents, artifacts and pictorial materials that tell the school's history, from 1891 to the present. Holdings include manuscript, photographic, print and audio-visual materials, oral histories, fine art and historic artifacts. Many of the photographs are available in digital format (thumbnail and full size) through the photo archive. The site also includes information about using the physical archive, online versions of archive exhibits and facts about the Cal Tech archive.

The Dittrick Medical History Center is dedicated to the study of the medical past through a distinguished collection of rare books, museum artifacts, archives, and images. This web site includes images of exhibits and scientific instruments in the Dittrick Museum, images and annotations of samples from the 60,000 volume rare book collection, information about the archival collections and image collections. In addition, the site also hosts two virtual exhibits, "Haunting Images: Photography, Dissection and Medical Students," and "Smallpox: A City on the Edge of Disaster." Finally the site includes a section about research aids including on-line catalogues and bibliographical information.

Online database of the Greater Glasgow National Health Service Board Archive's holdings, largely comprised of the records of patient care and of hospital administration from the foundation of the Glasgow Royal Infirmary in 1794, which can be searched or browsed through several directories. The site also offers research guides and several image galleries.

Archive of Australian scientific and corporate material. Contains biographies of over 3,000 Australian scientists as well as listings of documents available for order and a Cabinet of Curiosities-an interpretive creation about Australia's scientific history. Not updated since 1999.

This site is dedicated to exhibiting the treasures of the Ford Museum and Greenfield Village that include a replica of Thomas Edison's Menlo Park complex. The site is rich in details and images relating to the history of invention in America. Online exhibits include Buckminster Fuller's "Dymaxion House," the 1811 Dickson Steam Engine, the Showroom of Automotive History, biographies of famous inventors, and the first Kodak Camera. These exhibits provide a useful introduction to various inventions. The site also provides information about the archives and collections contained in the research center, most of the materials have not yet been digitized. Collections include: the Ford Motor Company archives, the Edison collection and Edison Institute archives, and the archives of the Boston and Sandwich Glass Company, Stickley Brothers, the D.S. Morgan Company, and the Gebelein Silver Company. Teachers and researchers will find the site useful.

Listing of the holdings of the Department of Astronomy Archives at the University of Bologna. Site in English, but listings are in Italian.