Museum

Tour the Museum's Radio Shop of the 1920's/30's. See displays of radio parts and a variety of radios focusing on that era. Try on the headphones and listen to the working crystal set. Battery radios, horn speakers, a wind-powered generator for charging batteries are on display.

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Virtual Museum has a counterpart outside of cyberspace with material manifestations of many of the objects that you see in its virtual exhibits.

The Donald Wilhelm Museum of Human Disease is located on the fifth floor of the Wallace Wurth School of Medicine. It was established in the early 1960s by Professor Donald Wilhelm, the Foundation Professor of Pathology at this University. Thanks to his foresight, and to the tireless efforts of Dr S.G. Higgins (the Museum Curator of longstanding), the Museum has been meticulously maintained and updated over the years to reflect the changing patterns of disease in our society. The Museum contains over 2,700 specimens (or "pots"), which display diseased human tissue at the macroscopic level, preserved in formalin. Specimens are obtained both from organs removed surgically and from tissue obtained at autopsy, where the natural history of disease is in full view. Please take note that some specimens of diseases which have become rare, e.g. diphtheria, are over 60 years old, and are irreplaceable. Each specimen is numbered and is accompanied by a clinical history (when known), a macroscopic description of the abnormalities displayed, and a histopathological description of changes at the microscopic level (where relevant). That information, specific to each of thirty areas (or "bays"), can be found in the Museum catalogues located in a bracket within each bay.

Among early printed works in Special Collections are 13 incunabula (books printed before 1501), over 200 sixteenth century imprints, and 1000 seventeenth century imprints. Some significant books are on heraldry, rare herbals, early astronomical works, and other books on the natural sciences and history.

In addition, there are books and materials on theater and performing arts, the Vince Meades Sheet Music Collection contains 58,000 titles, photographs, art prints, autographs, and the Zinner Portrait Collection. The John R. and Jane Adams Postcard Collection consists of some 200,000 early and modern postcards from around the world, and is especially strong in California and San Diego.

There are approximately 75 manuscript collections containing original correspondence, documents, journals, pamphlets, maps and memorabilia dating from 1298 to present day.

The Museum of the History of Science houses an unrivalled collection of historic scientific instruments in the world's oldest surviving purpose-built museum building, the Old Ashmolean on Broad Street, Oxford.

The Historical Library contains a large and unique collection of rare medical books, medical journals to 1920, pamphlets, prints, and photographs, as well as current works on the history of medicine. The library was founded in 1941 by the donations of the extensive collections of Harvey Cushing, John F. Fulton, and Arnold C. Klebs. Special strengths are the works of Hippocrates, Galen, Vesalius, Boyle, Harvey, and S. Weir Mitchell, and works on anesthesia, and smallpox inoculation and vaccination. The Library owns over 300 medical incunabula.

The Bradbury Science Museum's primary mission is (1) to interpret Laboratory research, activities, and history to official visitors, the general public, and Laboratory employees; (2) to promote greater public understanding of the Laboratory's role in national security programs; (3) to assist the taxpaying public in making informed judgments in these matters; and (4) to contribute to visitors' knowledge of science and technology and to improve the quality of math and science education in northern New Mexico.

The course explores two revolutions in our perception of the universe. The first, in which Galileo played the leading role, was the realization that what we see in the heavens -- the moon, the planets, the sun and stars -- are physical objects. For example, the moon has a rocky surface, not unlike some parts of earth, and is not made of some exotic ethereal substance, as had been generally believed before Galileo. This discovery led to the realization that the motions of the moon and planets obeyed the same physical laws as ordinary things moving on earth. Newton put this all together to give the first unified picture of the universe.

The Buffalo Museum of Science, through collections, research, education and interpretation, provides opportunities for all people to develop a scientific understanding of the natural and cultural world with an emphasis on the Greater Niagara Region. The Museum challenges everyone to use their knowledge of science to enhance respect for each other and the environmen

Ed Roberts is the Father of the Personal Computer. Now, you can argue the point, but it is generally accepted that the MITS Altair, circa 1975, was the first mass produced, commercially successful personal computer, and Ed Roberts, with some help, masterminded its creation and success. Here is a short version of that great American success story, as it was printed in our very first issu