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.
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The Core Historical Literature of Agriculture (CHLA) is a core electronic collection of agricultural texts published between the early nineteenth century and the middle to late twentieth century. Full-text materials cover agricultural economics, agricultural engineering, animal science, crops and their protection, food science,forestry, human nutrition, rural sociology, and soil science. Scholars have selected the titles in this collection for their historical importance. Their evaluations and 4,500 core titles are detailed in the seven volume series The Literature of the Agricultural Sciences, Wallace C. Olsen, series editor.
Current online holdings: Pages: 743,919 Books: 1,527 (1,585 Volumes) Journals: 6 (288 Volumes)
The Core Historical Literature of Agriculture (CHLA) site covers an enormous range of agricultural literature dating from the middle of the nineteenth century. The library suggests that the history of the United States can not be understood without attention to American rural and agricultural life. Thus the site acts as a virtual companion to a compilation of 4500 key documentary texts that have been identified and evaluated by a team of historians. The CHLA boasts over 1500 of these books and journals available online. Facsimiles of these works are provided in PDF format. The collection is searchable, or a researcher can browse the holdings by title or by author.
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.
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.
This is a pilot site for the electronic edition of the correspondence of Linnaeus now being prepared under the aegis of the Swedish Linnaean Society, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Uppsala University and its library, and the Linnean Society of London, in collaboration with the Centre international d’étude du XVIIIe siècle of Ferney-Voltaire. The project is financed by the research foundation of the Swedish National Bank.
Five elements are currently provided:
1. The texts of the letters
2. Summaries, critical apparatus and annotation
3. A list of the letters available and/or cited in the notes
4. A biographical glossary
5. A bibliography of works cited
Largest web collection of digital facsimiles of original documents by Turing and other pioneers of computing. Plus articles about Turing and his work, including Artificial Intelligence.
The documents that form the historical record of the development of computing are scattered throughout various archives, libraries and museums around the world. Until now, to study these documents required a knowledge of where to look, and a fistful of air tickets. This Virtual Archive contains digital facsimiles of the documents. The Archive places the history of computing, as told by the original documents, onto your own computer screen.
This site also contains a section on codebreaking and a series of reference articles concerning Turing and his work.
Description of Collection:
Over six thousand letters, which include drafts, fair copies and carbons of Bohr's replies. The correspondence covers the development of quantum and nuclear physics. Correspondents include:
Hans Albrecht Bethe, Patrick Maynard Stuart Blackett, Felix Bloch, Harald Bohr, Max Born,
Christian Christiansen, Dirk Coster, Marie Curie, C. Cuthbertson,
Charles Galton Darwin, B. Davis, P. Debye, Max Delbrück, Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac, W. Duane,
Paul Ehrenfest, Albert Einstein, W.M. Elsasser, Poul Sophus Epstein,
This site is the online guide to the Niels Bohr Archive. The archive houses thousands of records concerning the famous physicist and the development of quantum physics. Most of the textual primary documents are not available without arranging a visit to the archive; however, a few previously unpublished letters between Bohr and German physicist Heisenberg are available in facsimile, transcribed, and translated. The site's most extensive materials are many pages containing a huge number of images of Bohr, his friends, family, and colleagues. The images are searchable and organized into smaller categories to assist browsing. The site also provides essential information on preparations required before visiting the archive. These procedures seem very particular and restrictive, so the site could be a crucial tool for avoiding delays when planning a research trip. Thus, the site is a valuable resource for any researcher looking for images or working on the history of quantum mechanics, atomic energy, and the life and career of Niels Bohr.
Historic Pittsburgh is a digital collection that provides an opportunity to explore and research the history of Pittsburgh and the surrounding Western Pennsylvania area on the Internet. This website enables access to historic material held by the University of Pittsburgh's University Library System, the Library & Archives of the Historical Society of Western Pennsylvania at the Senator John Heinz Pittsburgh Regional History Center, and the Carnegie Museum of Art. The project represents a model of cooperation between libraries and museums in providing online access to their respective materials.
This site chronicles the history of the city of Pittsburg. The site includes a timeline that offers a general overview with brief entries, but the researcher who wants in-depth information can head to the collection of more than 500 full-text books, thousands of images, and hundreds of maps available on the site. The books and images are searchable and the maps are indexed with lists of important landmarks linked to their location on each map. Census records are also available for the mid-nineteenth century.
Tutankhamun: Anatomy of an Excavation is ambitious in its scope but simple in its aims: to make the complete records of Howard Carter's excavation of the tomb of Tutankhamun available on these web pages. It is astonishing, but no longer acceptable, that some eighty years and thousands of articles, hundreds of books, and dozens of exhibitions after the discovery of the tomb, this most famous event in the history of Egyptian archaeology has not yet been fully published.
This site is an on-going project to publish online all of the records of the Griffith Institute Archive concerning Howard Carter's discovery of Tutankhamun's tomb. The site holds a truly incredible number of items, from 5000-plus images and transcriptions of the original cards that indexed the finds, to diaries, maps, and eyewitness accounts of the discovery. The artifacts and note cards can be browsed, or there is a search tool available. The original photographs from the excavation are also online and searchable. Additional features include short bios of Tutankhamun and Howard Carter and a list of publications related to the find that are available through the Griffith Institute. This site would definitely be useful to an anthropologist or an historian of ancient Egypt, but the maps, diaries and accounts could also lend themselves to a very interesting study of the practice and philosophy of archeology, and the history of Carter and other early-Twentieth-Century scientists like him.
In developing the STRUCTURAL ENGINEERING SLIDE LIBRARY as a comprehensive resource for teaching structural and architectural engineering at college and university level, I felt there was a need to devote a volume to the work of one structural design company. Leonhardt, Andrä and Partners of Stuttgart, Germany, was an ideal choice for this project. One of Europe’s leading structural design companies, its staff has been on the leading edge of many developments in engineering over the past 40 years. Their name has been particularly associated with the development of incrementally launched bridges, cable-stayed bridges, cable-net structures, and prestressed concrete television towers.
The University of California at Berkeley has compiled a sizeable archive of slides of work by Leonhardt, Andrä and Partners of Stuttgart, Germany. Images are categorized according to their architectural characteristics, the type of material used, or the type of structure pictured. Text content also details some of the structures pioneered by the architecture firm. Useful for architectural case studies and research.
