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This is a fun, well designed site aimed at younger browsers. The site offers a slew of cursory information on dieases, anatomy, hospitals, public health, from the ancient to modern world.
This is a fun, well designed site aimed at younger browsers. The site offers a slew of cursory information on dieases, anatomy, hospitals, public health, from the ancient to modern world.
HHRS is dedicated to providing historical understanding, context and perspective to its clients. Historical awareness and its application depends upon the survival of the physical, written, visual and living memory of the past.
HHRS can help clients determine what materials are of permanent value and how they can be utilized effectively now and in the future through
Although this is a commercial site for a group who offers historical research and archival services, they maintain a large number of links to online research projects covering a variety of scientific and medical topics. Excellent reference point for those researching science and medicine.
Ernest O. Lawrence, Nobel Laureate and founder of Berkeley Lab, is said to be the father of "Big Science." This publication, which describes the momentous and historic Lawrence years here, could be said to be a product of "Big Publishing." Originally published by the Lab's Public Information Department in 1981 upon the 50th Anniversary of the Lab, the Web edition represents a state-of-the-art demonstration project that combines the contributions of writers, historians, webmasters, and computer scientists. These richly illustrated files derive their photographs and elements of their formatting from the Lab's Image Library, an online image collection that is being developed by the Lab's Imaging and Distributed Computing Group.
A historical narrative written in 1981 in commemoration of the fiftieth anniversary of the Lawrence Berkeley Lab. In addition to highlighting the life and work of Ernest O. Lawrence, and important discoveries made at the lab. The site also provides links to an online collection of related images.
The Free Library of Philadelphia, with the generous support of the Institute of Museum and Library Services, invites you to visit our Web version of the 100th birthday party for the United States, the Centennial Exhibition of 1876.
In these pages we present the Library's unique collection of silver albumen photographs with various views and points of access. Welcome to the Centennial at the Free Library of Philadelphia. Enjoy your visit!
In 1876, the United States celebrated its 100th birthday with a Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia. This site, presented by The Free Library of Philadelphia and funded by a National Leadership Grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services, presents more than 1500 digitized images of silver albumen photographs related to the Exhibition. The site is divided into four broad categories. ¨Exhibition Facts" contains a wide variety of statistics and brief (250-word) explanations of aspects like the Fair's organization, attendance, costs to visitors, transportation, food, grounds, and management. This section features photographs of buildings erected by participating foreign nations, images of the Library's Centennial Sheet Music Collection, and various other Fair attractions. Addressing the economic and cultural significance of the Fair, the site provides eight quotes about the Fair from public figures and contemporary writers, as well as a bibliography of more than 150 related scholarly works. A timeline traces the Fair's creation from the 1871 Act of Congress that created the U.S. Centennial Commission to plan the Philadelphia exhibition, to the removal of the exhibits in December 1876. In the Tours section visitors can click on sections of an interactive map of the fair grounds to find details and photographs of buildings and spaces in the Centennial Exhibition. The ¨Centennial Schoolhouse offers activities for students and teachers, including excerpts from a 17-year-old boy's diary about his visit to the Fair, a list of five children's books about the Fair published in 1876, and three newer children's books on the Fair. There are also ideas about how history, art, English, and world language teachers can use the site in their classrooms. Visitors can search the site by keyword or subject. This site is ideal for exploring the nationˆs first Worldˆs Fair and United States cultural history in general.
The Time and Frequency Division, part of NIST's Physics Laboratory, maintains the standard for frequency and time interval for the United States, provides official time to the United States, and carries out a broad program of research and service activities in time and frequency metrology.
This site provides links to a few time and calendar exhibits and hosts two exhibits itself. These hosted exhibits, "A Walk Through Time," and "NIST's work measuring time & frequency" are interesting but not particularly deep. The Time and Frequency exhibit provides information about early radio history in the United States as well as information about clock synchronization, the atomic clock and the Global Positioning System. The Walk Through Time exhibit provides a brief synopsis of six periods in history during which the measurement of time evolved from calendars, to sun dials, to mechanical clocks, to internet time synchronization.
NOAA History is an intrinsic part of the history of the United States and the development of its science and commercial infrastructure. The ancestor agencies of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration include the United States Coast Survey established in 1807, the United States Weather Bureau established in 1870, and the United States Commission of Fish and Fisheries established in 1871.
This highly useful site should be the starting point for researchers in geodesy, meteorology, cartography, and fisheries management among other subjects. The site is rich in photographs, maps and full-text books. Images from NOAA's collection of rare books and maps are particularly unique. Diaries, poems and oral histories also make this a valuable site. The site is easily navigated. The major shortcoming of this site, is that few of the rare books and surveys have been reproduced in an on-line, full-text format.
The National Space Science Data Center (NSSDC) is NASA's deep archive and general distribution center for lunar and planetary data and images. More information about planetary sciences at the NSSDC is available
Excellent resource for students of all levels, as well as those interested in serious research. A repository of enormous depth, this site contains information relating to the moon and planets and the missions which explored them. Technical and historical aspects are recounted in the mission files. There is a large collection of images of the entire solar system. Links are made to other NASA sites of potential interest, including the searchable NSSDC master catalog which contains detailed information about available data.
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.
The Exhibition Program of the National Library of Medicine presents lively and informative exhibitions that enhance the public and scholarly awareness and appreciation of the National Library of Medicine’s collections. The Program conducts scholarly research in science, medicine, and history; interprets that research for presentation to diverse audiences; designs and develops engaging displays; and produces educational outreach programs. The Exhibition Program makes traveling versions of its exhibitions, which are hosted by America’s libraries and medical centers. The Exhibition Program promotes public education about science, medicine, and history through its creation of interactive exhibitions, multimedia displays, traveling exhibitions, web sites, symposia, films, lectures, and publications. The Program expands the local community’s knowledge about the Library’s collections though outreach to community groups, senior centers, schools, universities, and professional groups. The Exhibition Program manages a robust tour program for Library visitors, which features special presentations by National Institutes of Health scientists and other Library programs.
The United States National Library of Medicine is located in Bethesda at the headquarters of the National Institutes of Health. This site lists about 20 exhibits, past and present, that have been displayed at the library and/or have online components. Many of these exhibits are outstanding, providing both scholars in the history of medicine and the general public interested in medical history with an array of images and texts relating to topics such as the study of stress, medieval Islamic medical books, and Frankenstein. The site also has links to other sites on the history of medicine at the NIH, and a list of public (offline) seminars in the history of medicine.
Welcome to the DeWitt Stetten, Jr., Museum of Medical Research at the National Institutes of Health. Established in 1986 as a part of the NIH centennial observance, the Stetten Museum collects and exhibits biomedical research instruments and NIH memorabilia.
The history section of this site contains: a brief illustrated history of the National Institutes of Health from 1887 to the present, as well as notes on breakthroughs made over the last century at the NIH, a bibliography of materials on the NIH, a short history of the NIH's various branches, and links to other sites on NIH history. The "exhibits" section has 10 online projects, including dozens of photographs of medical instruments and artwork, timelines of research on a variety of diseases and biological experiments, and biographies of important medical researchers and doctors. There is also extensive information about the museum itself, located in Bethesda, Maryland. Visitors can get information about rotating and permanent exhibits, and read a short prospectus of the museum's history.