This is the calendar FAQ. Its purpose is to give an overview of the Christian, Hebrew, Persian, and Islamic calendars in common use. It will provide a historical background for the Christian calendar, plus an overview of the French Revolutionary calendar, the Maya calendar, and the Chinese calendar.
An historical compendium of the people, departments, schools, research centres and affiliated organisations that make up the Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences at the University of Melbourne, with references to archival materials and a bibliography of historical published literature.
The purpose of the GATE experiment was to understand the tropical atmosphere and its role in the global circulation of the atmosphere. It was the first major experiment of the Global Atmospheric Research program, whose goal was to understand the predictability of the atmosphere and extend the time range of daily weather forecasts to over two weeks.
This site, produced by the American Meteorological Society, examines the early years of research by GARP, the Global Atmospheric Research Program. GARP's Atlantic Tropical Experiment, also known as GATE, was a preliminary attempt in the 1970s to understand how the atmospheric patterns of the tropics affect the entire world's weather. The site includes the original research proposals and reviews of the program from the 1970s and early 80s, as well as maps of the GATE experiment zone near the Cape Verde Islands to the west of Africa. Moreover, the site collects and presents the personal recollections of the scientists and engineers who worked on GATE, and includes links to research produced by the experiment and its ongoing importance in meteorological science.
Throughout the last three thousand years, smallpox has shadowed civilization. A viral infection, the disease spread along trade routes, emerging first in Africa, Asia and Europe and reaching the Americas in the sixteenth century. Because smallpox requires a human host to survive it tended to smolder in densely populated areas, erupting in a full-blown epidemic every ten years or so.
Wherever it appeared, the legacy of smallpox was death, blindness, sterility and scarring.
While some medical practitioners claimed to cure smallpox, most medical traditions focused on prevention. Quarantining smallpox patients often limited the spread of the disease and was commonly used even into the twentieth century as there is no cure for smallpox.
The American Museum of the Moving Image is dedicated to educating the public about the art, history, technique, and technology of film, television, and digital media and to examining their impact on culture and society.
It achieves these goals by maintaining the nation's largest permanent collection of moving image artifacts and by offering exhibitions, film screenings, lectures, seminars, and other education programs.
The American Museum of the Moving Image is dedicated to educating the public about the art, history, technique, and technology of film, television, and digital media, and examines the impact on culture and society. This site includes information about the museum which is located in New York City, as well as information about collections and museum programming. Most notably, the site includes four online exhibits about the influence of new forms of media on elections, electronic games, the technology behind motion pictures, and an exhibit titled "The Interactive Playground."
Built in 1967 by RCA, the David Sarnoff Library contains a museum, an archive, a library, and this website. Besides Mr. Sarnoff's papers and memorabilia, the Library's holdings include 25,000 photographs and thousands of notebooks, reports, publications, and artifacts related to the histories of RCA Laboratories and RCA. At this site you will find exhibits, timelines, galleries, links, and references.
The David Sarnoff Library is named for the pioneering President of RCA (Radio Corporation of America), a division of General Electric and one of the earliest industry leaders in radio and television technology. The site contains timelines of Sarnoff, RCA, radio, television, and several other topics. A large number of images are also available on a range of subjects such as early television performers and equipment. The site is still under construction, but the final edition will include memoirs of former engineers and workers at the RCA labs.
From the Multi-Repository Mathematics Collections site you will gain access to three of the most significant mathematics collections digitally available: The Mathematics Collection from Cornell, the Mathematics Collection from Göttingen, and the University of Michigan's Historical Math Collection. From this access point you will be able to search across all three of these collections, and examine results as you would normally using the University of Michigan's user interface. It is important to point out that the University of Göttingen has only one item for which a fulltext search can be performed, but bibliographic searches across the collection are possible.
We provide information about the history of Federal efforts devoted to public health, preserve and interpret the history of PHS, and promote historically-oriented activities across the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, in partnership with the History Office of the Food and Drug Administration and the National Institutes of Health Historical Office.
This site provides background information on clean air legislation and related efforts to enforce a reduction of pollutants in our atmosphere. It also serves as an introduction to a threaded discussion group on this subject that is being conducted by the American Meteorological Society.
This site focuses on the history of environmental legislation in the United States that sought to reduce airborne pollutants from motor vehicles, utilities, factories and other industrial sources. It begins with the Air Pollution Control Act of 1955 and follows clean air initiatives, including major legislation of 1963, 1970 and 1990, to the present day. The site has useful biographies of the various acts' congressional sponsors and scientific advisors, as well as notes on those who opposed the legislation. In addition, there are photographs and satellite images of smog over major cities in the United States and worldwide, a timeline of environmental activism since the second World War, links to the EPA and other sites, and excerpts from Senator Edmund S. Muskie's Archives at Bates College. The authors of the site also wish to expand the historical record by recording the personal recollections of those involved with the debate over clean air, as well as any documents or photographs they might have.
The purpose of this site is to collect information to create a first-hand, historical record regarding Apple Computer and Claris Corporation. The information and stories that are collected will be preserved for use by students, scholars, universities, and other non-profit organizations.
The Computer History Museum began in 1996 to preserve and celebrate computer history, and the Apple Computer History Weblog introduced in August 2003 is one venture to do just this. Overseen by more than 20 former Apple and Claris employees and the Computer History Museum, the historical purpose of the blog is stated in the introduction. A year-by-year timeline of Apple history from 1976-1993 (because it takes a decade to become “history”) is provided, listing company financial and employee numbers, products, marketplace overviews, and executive staff.
The Computer History Museum began in 1996 to preserve and celebrate computer history, and the Apple Computer History Weblog introduced in August 2003 is one venture to do just this. Overseen by more than 20 former Apple and Claris employees and the Computer History Museum, the historical purpose of the blog is stated in the introduction. A year-by-year timeline of Apple history from 1976-1993 (because it takes a decade to become “history”) is provided, listing company financial and employee numbers, products, marketplace overviews, and executive staff.
The Apple Computer History Weblog began with a promising start. In the first 8 weeks more than 75 stories were collected, although since then only a few more have been added. The medium of collection and presentation is fitting for the intended contributors, and the stories are a fascinating read even for those outside the Apple and Claris community, although attracting new visitors and contributions will be a continual challenge.
Community members can post a comment to a specific year, to a specific category, or begin a new topic. The community is comfortable and not entirely self-congratulatory. A posting entitled “Who Killed Apple Computer " sparked mention in Wired News, among others, and prompted 16 rather full replies in 6 weeks.
The use of blog technology to create a virtual workspace for an existing community with now far-flung members fits this group very well. Familiarity and interest in computer technology is a given, and the desire to commune with former colleagues is present in many members. Repeat contributors to this site comment on different topics is noteworthy, as is the In Memorium section, dedicated to former colleagues.
Critical opinions make it past the vetting process, although the introduction steers the contributor towards stories about the “cool stuff” and “the passion that made everything you did so great and so much fun.”
The design and navigation is simple, however the division of categories and stories can be confusing, as the category sections contain suggested topics rather than related stories. Despite the request for narratives rather than dialog, members have the ability to comment on individual stories. These messages don’t appear in threaded format, however, so viewing the two linked stories together requires more than one browser window. In addition, the author of a particular story is not viewable on the story page unless it was signed by the contributor. Threading the related stories or removing the comment option to prevent related, but unlinked, messages would improve the site and is needed now that there are a large number of messages.
Joan Fragaszy
Center For History and New Media
August 12, 2004
