Contemporary (Post-WWII)

The History of Computing Project

Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 11/08/2007 - 20:25.

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http://www.thocp.net/

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the History of Computing Project

Companies that created most of the mile stones in the computing industry
Biographies of computer poioneers and inventors
Timeline of the main events in the history of computing
Hardware developments that made an impact on the development of computers
Software that set a trend in the development of computing
History of Video games

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The History of Computing Project is a non-profit, collaborative initiative "to record and publish the history of the computer and its roots in the broadest sense of the word." The site is a large collection of short reports divided into six subcategories: Companies, biographies, timeline, hardware, software, and video games. The site contains many images that supplement the historical text, and there are links to outside sources. The site is growing and as the editors add information to address all of their topics completely, this site will become a one stop source for any computer background topic. As it is, the site is large enough to seem a little unwieldy, and it is not searchable, but the division of categories, and the occasional alphabetical or chronological index, organizes the material into segments that are more accessible.

Ingenious: Seeing Things Differently

Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 11/08/2007 - 20:25.

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http://www.ingenious.org.uk/

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National Museum of Science and Industry

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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.

History of the Health Sciences Web Resources

Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 11/08/2007 - 20:25.

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http://www.mla-hhss.org/histlink.htm#his

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History of the Health Sciences World Wide Web Links

Organizations in the History of the Health Sciences
History of the Health Sciences Libraries and Archives
History of the Health Sciences Educational Programs
Organizations and Museums with History of the Health Sciences Interests
Important Figures in Health Sciences - Their Lives & Works
Databases
Links Pages
Oaths, Prayers and Symbols
For Children
The History of Diseases
Bibliographies/Chronologies/Histories
Listservs
Newsgroups
Journals

WWW Virtual Library Economic and Business History

Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 11/08/2007 - 20:25.

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http://www.neha.nl/w3vl/resources.html#intech

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History of Economic Thought

Adam Smith Page at the University of Texas at Dallas. Bio- and bibliographical information.
Akamac E-text Links Links to texts to 400 historically important economists and related theorists in philosophy, political science and other social sciences.
Archival Resources in the History of Economics maintained by the History of Economics Society. Searchable database of over 70 important collections.
August Ludwig von Schloezer: Briefwechsel This site contains a digital version of a collection of letters of August Ludwig Schlözer Briefwechsel, meist historischen und politischen Inhalts (Göttingen 1778). Schlözer (1735-1809) was an German enlightened historian, statistician and philogist. The work consists of five volumes with an index.

The Core Historical Literature of Agriculture

Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 11/08/2007 - 20:25.

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http://chla.library.cornell.edu/c/chla/index.html

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Albert R. Mann Library, Cornell University

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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)

Annotation:

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.

4000 Years of Women in Science

Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 11/08/2007 - 20:25.

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http://www.astr.ua.edu/4000ws/

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4,000 years of women in science! Did you know that? Women are, and always have been, scientists. This site lists over 125 names from our scientific and technical past. They are all women! This site grew out of the public talks given by Dr. Sethanne Howard, currently with the National Science Foundation. As we learn more, we add it to this page. We hope you will share what you know with us. This includes inventors, scholars and writers as well as mathematicians and astronomers. We hope you enjoy learning about some of these women.

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This site documents the history of women in science by providing a long list of biographies including female scientists from a range of disciplines. The site design is old and the navigation is basic, but a large amount of information on certain individuals is available throught this site and its links. The site offers a short introduction, the biographies, a few images, and a bibliography. Visitors can select whether to browse the biographies alphabetically, by date of birth, or by field. The site boasts more than 100 records, but many are one-sentence descriptions which are not useful. Some of the entries give summaries of the women's lives, their significant, and provide links to further online resources devoted that scientist. Other features of the site include an interactive quiz, crossword puzzle, and a long list of links to related sites.

History of the Royal College of General Practitioners

Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 11/08/2007 - 20:25.

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http://www.rcgp.org.uk/history/index.asp

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The College of General Practitioners was founded in 1952, The Practitioner described it as ‘an outstanding event in the history of British medicine.’ A claim that can best be understood in relation to the history of general practice in Britain and its troubled state in the years immediately following the introduction of the National Health Service in 1948.

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This large site contains much information about the institutional workings of the Royal College of General Practitioners in Great Britain. The site describes the establishment of general practice (primary care/family medicine) as a speciality and academic discipline. Background information is given concerning the history of general practice, foundation of the College, history of the College and its building, and a detailed chronology. The archives of the college also include institutional records, personal papers, photographs and recordings, although only a guide to these resources is available online. This site would be helpful to wide range of historians, especially those interested in the history of modern medicine in Great Britain or events following the shift in British medicine to fit the newly established national health system.

The History of Dentistry

Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 11/08/2007 - 20:25.

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http://www.sadanet.co.za/dhw/history/overview.html

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Oral disease has been a problem for humans from the beginning of history. Skulls of Cro-Magnon peoples, who inhabited the earth 25,000 years ago, show evidence of tooth decay. The earliest recorded reference to oral disease is from an ancient (5000 BC) Sumerian text that describes "tooth worms" as a cause of dental decay. There is historical evidence that the Chinese used acupuncture around 2700 BC to treat pain associated with tooth decay.

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This History of Dentistry site contains a descriptive narrative that tells the story of how dentistry developed through the ages to become the sophisticated medical science of today. The site begins with facts about prehistoric and ancient ideas about teeth and tooth disease, as well as early method of care and treatment. From there, the writer continues the story under a wide range of subject headings from "The Etruscan Practical Approach" to "The History of Toothpaste." Each article also includes links to endnotes as well. This site is part of the larger South African Dental Association site and there are a host of articles concerning contemporary dental issues that can be accessed from the side bar. The site acts as a primer on dental history and a guide to literary reference.

The Virtual Laboratory

Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 11/08/2007 - 20:24.

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http://vlp.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/

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"Experimentalization of life" designates a process that began in Europe around 1800 to reconfigure science, art, and technology. After experimental physiology had established itself as one of the paradigmatic disciplines of the 19th century, psychology and linguistics also became laboratory-based enterprises.

Experimental cultures emerged thereafter in a variety of places, as for example in literary movements relying on automatism, aleatorics, and combination. New media such as photography and film transformed the fine arts and the sciences. Cities became vast fields of experience in which people undertook all sorts of experiments in living.

The project investigates the experimentalization of life with a focus on the material culture of instruments, buildings and supply technologies. In a "Virtual Laboratory", relevant source materials as well as results of ongoing research work are made accessible online.

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The Virtual Laboratory is a resource for the history of the human and life sciences (especially psychology) and the "experimentalization of life." In addition to the typical aspects of science and technology, this site adds a dimension dealing with how art intersects these areas. The site is broken into logical sections including, experiments, technology, objects, sites, people, etc. The "people" section contains an extensive collection of career sketches for many important scientists. After each entry, a user can click a link to search the technology database and library for related materials. Other sections offer the same linking capabilities, thereby connecting experiments to concepts to technology to essays and more. This cross-linking makes the large site seem small and easy to navigate. The site archives historical texts and images, as well as new essays. The virtual Laboratory is in English, but much of the archived material is in German.

Alan Turing Archive

Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 11/08/2007 - 20:24.

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http://www.alanturing.net/

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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.