They dreamed the dreams. They harnessed the technologies. They created a world where the sky was no longer the limit. The National Aviation Hall of Fame honors them for their service to country, their ingenuity, their courage, and their vision. The stories of our NAHF enshrinees are stories of America...of challenge and failure, of determination and, triumph.
Medicines: The Inside Story is an expansive four-part project that explores the past, present, and future of medicines. Its parts include: a traveling museum exhibition debuting at Atlanta's Fernbank Museum of Natural History and making stops at four other major museums throughout the country; a planetarium presentation designed to explore the "inner space" universe of the human body; a nationwide education program for high-school students and teachers; and an academic symposium held at the Carter Center in Atlanta.
Medicines: The Inside Story is an online exhibit explaining how and why medicines work, the history of medicines, current medicinal trends, the future of medicinal research, and the changing role that medicines play in society. GlaxoWellcome's endeavor features a four-year traveling museum exhibition, a high school education program presented on CD-ROM, a planetarium presentation and an academic symposium. The online museum features an interactive floorplan of a travelling exhibit which includes brief narratives and a few images. Other pages provide brief synopses of an academic conference hosted in 1996, lesson plans for high school teachers and a description of the multi media program "Innerspace."
All major advances in neurosurgery have come about during the 20th century. Therefore it is fitting that as the century ends, so begins a new opportunity to gain knowledge about these advances by a visit to the "Cyber Museum of Neurosurgery."
Cyber Museum projects display material readily available in the American Academy of Neuro Surgeons (AANS) Archives and as a result, reflect in large part the twentieth century history of neurosurgery. Among these exhibits are advances in pediatric neurosurgery, the history of the management of pain and movement disorders, military medicine, neurosurgical instrumentation development, and significant personalities in the development of the neurosciences. Exhibits include photo and art galleries, features about Harvey Cushing and Richard Light, full text articles about the histories of Stereotacic surgery and micro-neurosurgery, and information about the AANS archive. A work-in-progress, the museum plans to post film and audio clips of oral histories performed with some of the top surgeons in the field.
This is site is basically useless. You must visit the museum to see any of the artifacts/objects.
This exhibition, on view from February 27 to September 6, 1999, tells stories about infectious disease. Some are personal and others scientific. But what they have in common are human disasters of shocking proportions. Our goal is to explain how a complex mix of ecology, evolution, and culture produce conditions in which disease-causing microbes—microscopic organisms that live in our environment—can thrive.
This site, related to the American Museum of Natural History's 1999 exhibit on Infectious Disease, contains a number of links to sites about infectious disease, a glossary of related terms, and several interactive, educational tolls for children.
The National Railway Museum in York, England is the largest railway museum in the world, responsible for the conservation and interpretation of the British national collection of historically significant railway vehicles and other artefacts. The Museum contains an unrivalled collection of locomotives, rolling stock, railway equipment, documents and records
The website of Europe's "Museum of the Year" has a wealth of information about the history of railways and locomotion. In addition to physical archives that include over 100 engines, and thousands of train related items, the National Railway Museum also has an archive. The Archive is one of Britain's major reference sources for the study of railway history, containing millions of photographs, charts, maps, posters and books. The Photographic archive alone includes 1.4 million prints. Each of the eight collections (from books, to photographs to engineering drawings) provides a web page describing in depth the nature of the collection. Five exhibits provide greater depth to a few of the millions of items in the Museum's collections. These exhibits generally focus on railway photography and art.
The Smithsonian Institution's National Air and Space Museum (NASM) maintains the largest collection of historic air and spacecraft in the world. It is also a vital center for research into the history, science, and technology of aviation and space flight.
The Museum has two display facilities. The flagship building on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. has hundreds of artifacts on display including the original Wright 1903 Flyer, the "Spirit of St. Louis," Apollo 11 command module, and a Lunar rock sample that visitors can touch. The new Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center displays many more artifacts including the Lockheed SR-71 "Blackbird", Boeing B-29 Superfortress "Enola Gay" and Space Shuttle "Enterprise". The museum continues to develop new exhibits to examine the impact of air and space technology on science and society.
The National Air and Space Museum is the nation's repository of technological instruments in the fields of aviation and space exploration. The collection of technologies housed at the Museum on the Mall and a soon to be completed hangar near Dulles International Airport. The website includes digital versions of all online exhibits and many past exhibits. The site also includes the on-line only "Commemorations in the Archives" exhibit which includes archival photographs, video and audio files about the breaking of the sound barrier, Charles Lindberg and the Zeppelin. Scholars will find the NASM Archive Division site useful as it has detailed information about collections and access to them.
Please note we will be constantly adding new exhibits to the museum. The museum is dedicated mostly to minicomputers and microcomputers.
Older site which contains a chronology of computer history and a virtual tour of microcomputer history with narratives and images.
These exhibits trace evolutionary thought as it has developed over time, pausing to ponder the contributions of scientists and thinkers including Aristotle, Darwin, Wallace, and many others.
This website includes a number of useful biographies of key thinkers in the development of evolutionary theory. It also includes a few links to full-text on-line works by Charles Darwin. Exhibits on early dinosaur discoveries and systematics are interesting if not illuminating. Newcomers to this subject will find the biographies useful. Experts on evolution, however, will find other sites on evolution to be more rewarding.
The National Museum of Health and Medicine was established during the Civil War as the Army Medical Museum, a center for the collection of specimens for research in military medicine and surgery. In 1862, Surgeon General William Hammond directed medical officers in the field to collect "specimens of morbid anatomy . . . together with projectiles and foreign bodies removed" and to forward them to the newly founded museum for study. The Museum's first curator, John Brinton, visited mid-Atlantic battlefields and solicited contributions from doctors throughout the Union Army. During and after the war, Museum staff took pictures of wounded soldiers showing effects of gunshot wounds as well as results of amputations and other surgical procedures. The information collected was compiled into six volumes of The Medical and Surgical History of the War of the Rebellion, published between 1870 and 1883.
The National Museum of Health and Medicine was established during the Civil War as the Army Medical Museum, a center for the collection of specimens for research in military medicine and surgery. Pages here are devoted to historical technologies, anatomical collections, photographs, illustrations and documents. Three museum exhibits: anatomy artifacts, evolution of the microscope and medical instruments are replicated in digital format. Temporary Museum exhibits are also replicated. Exhibits on Linus Pauling, Women's Health, art and health and a few articles about military medicine in the Korean, Vietnamese and the Spanish-American War are included.
