Paint -- the group of emulsions generally consisting of pigments suspended in a liquid medium for use as decorative or protective coatings -- made its earliest appearance about 30,000 years ago. Cave dwellers used crude paints to leave behind the graphic representations of their lives that even today decorate the walls of their ancient rock dwellings.
1945
Vannevar Bush writes an article in Atlantic Monthly about a photo-electrical-mechanical device called a Memex, for memory extension, which could make and follow links between documents on microfiche.
1960s
Doug Engelbart prototypes an "oNLine System" (NLS) which does hypertext browsing editing, email, and so on. He invents the mouse for this purpose. See the Bootstrap Institute library.
This site provides a detailed chronology of the birth and growth of the world wide web. Its pages include links to descriptions of documents and in some cases, the documents themselves, including Tim Berners-Lee's original proposal to create the WWW, press announcements of mergers, and home pages of key individuals in the history of the web. Each year of the chronology includes information about contemporary events that occurred at or near the same time as innovations and advances in world wide web technologies and access. Additionally, each year contains a link to a month-by-month breakdown of the chronology and these pages includes facts and figures. Not surprisingly, this website is particularly user friendly and the navigation is simple. A small key in the bottom left of each page explains icons in a manner that may soon be adopted by others.
...a collection of anecdotes and stories about computer technology and the people who spend their time working with computers... This is the first time I have seen anyone collect so many of them together, and in such an amusing and readable way.
History
April 22, 1941
Establishing meet at Gakushi Kaikan in Tokyo
1941
Founded Kagakushi Kenkyu
1945
Discontinued any activities under World War II
April 24, 1948
First genaral meeting after the war at Nihon Ishi Kaikan (JMA), Tokyo
August, 1962
Founded Japanese Studies in the History of Science
1974
International Conference
A walk through any village cemetery or a search of old public records will reveal a sometimes-overlooked, yet quite astonishing fact -- in barely fifty years, human longevity worldwide has increased by more than 40%. The average life expectancy at birth has risen from around 46 years in the early 1950s to almost 65 years by 1996. This most important international public health achievement of the past half-century is a triumph for humanity. The World Health Organization (WHO) has played a vital, though often unobtrusive, role in this accomplishment.
The Canadian Medical Hall of Fame, The Canadian Medical Association and The Canadian Medical Foundation aim to advance the knowledge and appreciation of medical developments in Canada by commemorating those who have made significant contributions.
Copper was the first metal used by man in any quantity. The earliest workers in copper soon found that it could be easily hammered into sheets and the sheets in turn worked into shapes which became more complex as their skill increased. After the introduction of bronze, a wide range of castings also became possible. Many of the illustrations on this site serve to show man's progress as a metal-worker, culminating in the priceless inheritance of the Renaissance craftsmen. But copper and its principal alloys, bronze and brass, have always been more than a means of decorative embellishment. Although iron became the basic metal of every Western civilization from Rome onwards it was the copper metals which were used when a combination of strength and durability was required. The ability to resist corrosion ensured that copper, bronze and brass remained as functional as well as decorative materials during the Middle Ages and the successive centuries through the Industrial Revolution and on to the present day.
The National Plastics Center and Museum is a non-profit institution dedicated to preserving the past, addressing the present and promoting the future of plastics through public education and awareness. The educational staff has supported this mission throughout the years by conducting hands-on science programming for schools, organizations and the plastics community.
In geological terms, Long Island was born yesterday.
The oversize sandbar where we live is only the latest, temporary incarnation of a corner of the world that has been continuously reshaped by colliding continents, crumbling mountains, shifting sea level, pounding waves and titanic glaciers. And though Long Island is brand new by the time scale of history, the way we live upon it is profoundly influenced by the remarkable series of transformations that occurred here over hundreds of millions of years.
The "Irish Lives" project grew out of the radio programme PRISM's decision to include a regular look-back section that gave a brief biography of Irish scientists in history. The following pages are the scripts of those talks. IRSA and the "PRISM" team would like to thank Dr Charles Mollan of SAMTON Ltd for preparing the scripts and for giving permission to publish them on the World Wide Web.
Down along the lefthand side are the names of the people in our series. We are still anxious to collect more biographies. Our present collection includes some held at sites other than our own server.
The "Irish Lives" project should consist of scripts from the PRISM radio program's brief, regular biographies of past Irish scientists. Subjects include Robert Boyle, Kathleen Londsdale, Nicholas Callan, William Parsons, Harry Ferguson, Robert Kane, Thomas and Edward Grubb, William Rowan Hamilton, Lord Kelvin, Ernest Walton, John Joly and John Tindall. Each individual is described in a brief essay. This site is useful for a quick introduction to Irish scientists. However, as of 09/20/04, all of the links to the scripts were broken.
