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Welcome. Intellivision, the first 16-bit videogame system, was introduced in 1980. With realistic graphics and challenging games, Intellivision quickly earned millions of loyal fans.
Welcome. Intellivision, the first 16-bit videogame system, was introduced in 1980. With realistic graphics and challenging games, Intellivision quickly earned millions of loyal fans.
This site celebrates the development of a very British invention. Here you will find information about the development of teletext from its faltering beginnings to a system which has gained worldwide acceptance and which we now take for granted.
The 20th century is marked by dramatic technology innovation. The time-warp project is an attempt to archive the rapid advance in technology through the decades. Initially we are starting from 1900 to the present. So much has happened since the harnessing of electricity!
Museum of vintage computer graphics
"ARP's founder, Alan R. Pearlman, recognized the importance of teaching musicians how to use the technology, so he designed a new instrument with a fixed selection of basic synthesizer functions. This instrument, dubbed the Model 2600, was an integrated system with the signal generating and processing functions in one box and the keyboard in another.
An assortment of highlights -- plus a few lowlifes -- about early U.S. radio history. Over time more articles will be added, to cover additional topics and expand on the existing ones. (This webpage was begun September 30, 1996, and was located at www.ipass.net/~whitetho/index.html until March 11, 2003).
This site has a large collection of articles about early radio technology and use in the United States. The site is divided into 24 sections, each with an essay with inter-linked supplemental articles. These entries range in size from a few hundred to a few thousand words. The topics covered include material such as a period overview, personal radio use, radio at sea, financing radio, radio frauds and a series of original articles about the medium. There is no overarching navigation bar or site map, but the intro page does include a search tool.
Archimedes was born in the city of Syracuse on the island of Sicily in 287 BC. He was the son of an astronomer and mathematician named Phidias. Aside from that, very little is known about the early life of Archimedes or his family. Some maintain that he belonged to the nobility of Syracuse, and that his family was in some way related to that of Hiero II, King of Syracuse.
This site is a companion piece to an Archimedes exhibit at the Walters Art Gallery in Baltimore. The Gallery exhibit is centered around The Archimedes Palimpsest, a rare and ancient document that contains a compendium of the Greek mathematicians's work, the only copy of his essay, Method of Mechanical Theorems, and the only source for the treatise, On Floating Bodies, in the original Greek. The site contains a nice timeline and biography of Archimedes' life, an explanation of the historical significance of the Palimpsest, and a history of the discovery and conservation of the piece. The site is professionally designed, informative, and easy to navigate. The site may serve as a resource for historians interested in rare manuscripts and their preservation.
Predecessors of the National Technical Museum can be seen in collecting activities of the Professional Engineering School (established in 1717), Prague Technical University (1806) and Czech Industrial Museum (1873). Some of their collections are now in our Museum. The National Technical Museum itself was established in 1908 under the name Technical Museum of the Czech Kingdom with a modern programme of documentation of principal development trends of technical progress, evaluation of their benefits to the society, and preserving representative samples of this development for future generations.