We believe in the power of history to enrich the present and enlighten the future by providing people a setting to grow as individuals and as community members. MOHAI is the definitive place for everyone with a passion, curiosity, or question about the history of Seattle and King County since 1850.
The Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine (CHSTM) was founded in 1986 to bring together the University's interest in history of science and medicine, and to act as a focus for the discipline in the Manchester region and beyond. It includes a large Unit for the History of Medicine, funded by the Wellcome Trust. It also includes the National Archive for the History of Computing, a major resource for research in the history and culture of informatics.
This site serves as the home page for both the Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine and the Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine at the University of Manchester. Most of the site's content relates to the physical center and its people and students. There are faculty and student lists, event listings, programs and courses, as well as links to the libraries of the University of Manchester and the five museums having to do with science and technology near the university. Web visitors interested in the history of science and technology may find the online projects on the site useful: one is a catalog of historical scientific objects held by the university.
The Chemical Heritage Foundation serves the community of the chemical and molecular sciences, and the wider public, by treasuring the past, educating the present, and inspiring the future.
In fulfillment of our mission, this site offers many tools for the researcher, the student, and those who want to explore and discover how chemical and molecular science has changed the world we live in.
The Chemical Heritage Foundation was founded twenty years ago by the American Chemical Society (ACS) and the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) to promote public understanding of chemistry, chemical engineering and their uses. This site is the home page for the organization, and mostly covers administrative elements and publicity. The Foundation does maintain a historical library in Philadelphia, and the site links to that library's online catalog of materials. In addition, the Foundation runs the Beckman Center for the History of Chemistry, which gives grants, awards and lectures. Moreover, the Beckman Center has conducted over 270 oral history interviews with chemists and has posted abstracts of those interviews on the site. The abstracts include short biographies of the subjects, and include forms to order full transcripts from the Foundation.
The Astronomical Society of the Pacific (ASP), founded in San Francisco in 1889, is a worldwide organization that brings together research scientists, teachers, amateur astronomers, and “armchair astronomers” to “advance the Science of Astronomy, and to diffuse information concerning it.” The ASP has awarded its highest honor, the Catherine Wolfe Bruce gold medal, for lifetime contributions to astronomy most years since 1898.
The Astronomical Society of the Pacific (ASP), founded in San Francisco in 1889, has given the Catherine Wolfe Bruce gold medal for lifetime achievement in the field of astronomy in virtually every year since 1898. This site lists the award recipients alphabetically and by year, and allows the visitor to read short biographies of each winner. Included in these biographies are small photographs. There are also links to scanned articles about the award and its history, mainly in the astronomical journal, Mercury.
The history of mathematics goes a long way back with devices and methods of calculation. Starting with the ancient Abacus, the slide rule and the logarithms, the mechanical calculating machines, the electromechanical calculators and finally the electronic computer.
This site deals mainly with the mechanical calculating machines from a collector's point of view. I hope you enjoy this site and find it as useful as many other cyberspace citizens have.
This site, established by a collector and written from a collector's point of view (and written for a general audience), examines mainly mechanical calculating machines. A brief history with several photographs describes the origin and development of the calculating machine from its invention by Blaise Pascal to the twentieth century. There is a classification scheme (7 rough types) and photographs of representative models, as well as 6 classic advertisements for calculating machines from the 1930s to the 1950s. Short essays contain several other photographs of machines. In addition, an applet lets you simulate the operation of a 1885 Felt &Tarrant "Comptometer" adding machine. An extensive list of links (over 40 entries) takes the visitor to other sites on the history of calculating machines, and a bibliography lists important printed works on the subject.
Welcome to the H-Environment web site, a gateway to information concerning past human interactions with nature. Part of H-NET, the Humanities & Social Sciences OnLine initiative, H-Environment is supported by organizations of professional historians.
Supported by organizations of professional historians such as the American Society for Environmental History and the European Society for Environmental History, H-Environment is the email discussion list on environmental history. This Web site introduces the discussion group and tells you how to join and what is discussed in the group. Discussion threads considered significant have been archived. In addition, there are links to bibliographies, course syllabi, archival sources and other materials (and about 20 other Web sites) on environmental history. The site also has a searchable log of the entire discussion group that visitors can scan by topic, date or author.
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.
Welcome to the website of the BSHS, the largest UK body dealing with all aspects of the history of science, technology and medicine. You can navigate using the menu bar on the left, or click here for an introduction to the BSHS, covering the Society's aims, activities, publications and awards, plus details of how to get in touch.
This site is essentially a set of links to materials of interest to members of the British Society for the History of Science. Approximately 20 links cover the publications of the organization, including a newsletter, monographs and the British Journal for the History of Science, three prizes given by the group, special offers for members, and notes about its membership and administration. There are also educational links, including a list of courses offered on the history of science in British universities, policy papers and methodological statements for teachers of the history of science, and lists of other sites that cover the history of science.
The leading journal in its field for more than three quarters of a century, the Bulletin is the official publication of the American Association for the History of Medicine and the Johns Hopkins Institute of the History of Medicine. Each issue spans the social, cultural, and scientific aspects of the history of medicine worldwide and includes reviews of recent books on medical history.
The Bulletin of the History of Medicine is the official publication of the American Association of the History of Medicine and the Johns Hopkins Institute of the History of Medicine. While the site allows visitors to browse the contents and cover artwork of every issue going back to 1996, only subscribers to the Bulletin's online service are allowed access to the actual articles. There are also links to the home page of the American Association of the History of Medicine, detailed information about the Bulletin, and links to other organizations and Web sites for those interested in the history of medicine.
The Museum of the Oxford University's 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. By virtue of the collection and the building, the Museum occupies a special position, both in the study of the history of science and in the development of western culture and collecting.
This is the home page for Oxford University's Museum of the History of Science. An overview provides a sense of the museum's collection, and a paragraph describes its history (and the history of the building it is housed in) since 1683. There are seven excellent online exhibits with numerous graphics and photographs, including pieces on the history of photography, mathematics and astronomy. All are composed for a lay audience. For researchers, a remarkable searchable database of over 13,000 objects allows visitors to find and view artifacts in the museum's collection. These objects span the entire history of science and technology, and many of them are extremely rare. Another section of the site features some of the best portraits, instruments and illustrations in the archive.
