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4000 Years of Women in Science

Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 11/08/2007 - 20:25.
  • Ancient (BCE-40 CE)
  • Consumer Technology
  • Contemporary (Post-WWII)
  • Early Modern (15th-18th Century)
  • Images
  • Links
  • Middle Ages (5th-15th Century)
  • Modern (18th-20th Century)
  • Physical Sciences
  • Secondary Source
  • University
URL: 

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

Excerpt: 

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.

Annotation: 

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.

Niels Bohr Archive

Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 11/08/2007 - 20:23.
  • Biographical
  • Consumer Technology
  • Contemporary (Post-WWII)
  • Images
  • Library/Archive
  • Links
  • Modern (18th-20th Century)
  • Physical Sciences
  • Primary Source
URL: 

http://www.nba.nbi.dk/

Excerpt: 

Description of Collection:
Over six thousand letters, which include drafts, fair copies and carbons of Bohr's replies. The correspondence covers the development of quantum and nuclear physics. Correspondents include:

Hans Albrecht Bethe, Patrick Maynard Stuart Blackett, Felix Bloch, Harald Bohr, Max Born,
Christian Christiansen, Dirk Coster, Marie Curie, C. Cuthbertson,
Charles Galton Darwin, B. Davis, P. Debye, Max Delbrück, Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac, W. Duane,
Paul Ehrenfest, Albert Einstein, W.M. Elsasser, Poul Sophus Epstein,

Annotation: 

This site is the online guide to the Niels Bohr Archive. The archive houses thousands of records concerning the famous physicist and the development of quantum physics. Most of the textual primary documents are not available without arranging a visit to the archive; however, a few previously unpublished letters between Bohr and German physicist Heisenberg are available in facsimile, transcribed, and translated. The site's most extensive materials are many pages containing a huge number of images of Bohr, his friends, family, and colleagues. The images are searchable and organized into smaller categories to assist browsing. The site also provides essential information on preparations required before visiting the archive. These procedures seem very particular and restrictive, so the site could be a crucial tool for avoiding delays when planning a research trip. Thus, the site is a valuable resource for any researcher looking for images or working on the history of quantum mechanics, atomic energy, and the life and career of Niels Bohr.

Tutankhamun: Anatomy of an Excavation

Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 11/08/2007 - 20:23.
  • Ancient (BCE-40 CE)
  • Artifacts
  • Consumer Technology
  • Images
  • Library/Archive
  • Links
  • Modern (18th-20th Century)
  • Philosophy of Science
  • Primary Source
URL: 

http://www.ashmol.ox.ac.uk/gri/4tut.html

Excerpt: 

Tutankhamun: Anatomy of an Excavation is ambitious in its scope but simple in its aims: to make the complete records of Howard Carter's excavation of the tomb of Tutankhamun available on these web pages. It is astonishing, but no longer acceptable, that some eighty years and thousands of articles, hundreds of books, and dozens of exhibitions after the discovery of the tomb, this most famous event in the history of Egyptian archaeology has not yet been fully published.

Annotation: 

This site is an on-going project to publish online all of the records of the Griffith Institute Archive concerning Howard Carter's discovery of Tutankhamun's tomb. The site holds a truly incredible number of items, from 5000-plus images and transcriptions of the original cards that indexed the finds, to diaries, maps, and eyewitness accounts of the discovery. The artifacts and note cards can be browsed, or there is a search tool available. The original photographs from the excavation are also online and searchable. Additional features include short bios of Tutankhamun and Howard Carter and a list of publications related to the find that are available through the Griffith Institute. This site would definitely be useful to an anthropologist or an historian of ancient Egypt, but the maps, diaries and accounts could also lend themselves to a very interesting study of the practice and philosophy of archeology, and the history of Carter and other early-Twentieth-Century scientists like him.

Science and Society Picture Library

Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 11/08/2007 - 20:22.
  • Consumer Technology
  • Contemporary (Post-WWII)
  • Early Modern (15th-18th Century)
  • Government
  • Images
  • Modern (18th-20th Century)
  • Museum
  • Primary Source
URL: 

http://www.nmsi.ac.uk/piclib/

Author: 
National Museum of Science and Industry (Britain)
Excerpt: 

Science & Society Picture Library represents the collections of the National Museum of Science & Industry, Science Museum, National Museum of Photography, Film & Television, National Railway Museum.

Annotation: 

The Science and Society Picture Library of the British National Museum of Science and Industry combines collections of the Science Museum, National Museum of Photography, Film & Television, and the National Railway Museum all on one website. It allows for searching or browsing of over 35,000 images, each of which can be sent as e-cards, or saved into a "wishlist" for second viewing or ordering reproductions. The images are of decent size to be viewed online, display a caption, and are completely categorized by keywords and fully seachable. This is an amazing resource for anyone interested in images of science and society up to the present day.

Before the Web

Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 11/08/2007 - 20:22.
  • Computers/Information Technology
  • Consumer Technology
  • Contemporary (Post-WWII)
  • Personal
  • Primary Source
URL: 

http://www.beforetheweb.org/

Author: 
Taylor Walsh
Excerpt: 

"Before the Web" is an online research project designed for the practitioners of the online services industry and its era. It is an interactive, digital variation of the oral history, the most common traditional technique used to collect the first-hand accounts from people who witnessed or took part in important events and eras.

Making the Modern World: Stories About the Lives We've Made

Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 11/08/2007 - 20:22.
  • Artifacts
  • Consumer Technology
  • Contemporary (Post-WWII)
  • Educational
  • Exhibit
  • Images
  • Modern (18th-20th Century)
  • Museum
  • Primary Source
URL: 

http://www.makingthemodernworld.org.uk/

Author: 
The Science Museum
Excerpt: 

Making the Modern World brings you powerful stories about science and invention from the eighteenth century to today. It explains the development and the global spread of modern industrial society and its effects on all our lives. The site expands upon the permanent landmark gallery at the Science Museum, using the Web and dynamic multimedia techniques to go far beyond what a static exhibition can do.

Annotation: 

Making the Modern World is a vast online exhibit from the Science Museum of London that covers science and society in the modern era, from traditional research and inventions and engineering, to social sciences and everyday life. There are many ways to explore the hundreds of images, audio files, and texts of the exhibit that begins with “Enlightenments and Measurement” in 1750 and concludes with the “Age of Ambivalence” in 2000. The largest section of the site is the Stories and Timelines, which is in narrative and chronological form. There are guided tours along the themes of “Technology as Passport,” “Women Making the Modern World,” and “Conflict in the Modern World.” The Daily Life Section has six categories that include personal, leisure, work, health, and control, and the stories of nine contemporary people's interactions with technology, some inventors, others learning how to handle a screwdriver and "DIY- Do It Yourself." The Icons of Invention includes more than 100 objects from science, technology, and medicine, while the Learning Modules cover biology, English, chemistry, geography, history, mathematics, and psychology. Throughout the site are subsections called "rich media scenes" with moving images and sound that provide interaction with catalogued images and quizzes within a particular story. Finally, there are basic and advanced search options to navigate quickly to a particular item or term.

Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 11/08/2007 - 20:22.
  • Computers/Information Technology
  • Consumer Technology
  • Contemporary (Post-WWII)
  • Links
  • Personal
  • Secondary Source
URL: 

http://www.technocapitalism.com/

Author: 
Prof. L. Suarez-Villa
Excerpt: 

Technocapitalism is a new form of market capitalism that is rooted in technological invention and innovation.  It can be considered an emerging era, now in its early stage, that is supported by such intangibles as creativity and knowledge.

The WWW Virtual Library

Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 11/08/2007 - 20:22.
  • Ancient (BCE-40 CE)
  • Aviation/Space Exploration
  • Computers/Information Technology
  • Consumer Technology
  • Contemporary (Post-WWII)
  • Early Modern (15th-18th Century)
  • Earth Sciences
  • Engineering
  • Industrial/Military Technology
  • Life Sciences
  • Links
  • Mathematics
  • Medicine/Behavioral Science
  • Middle Ages (5th-15th Century)
  • Modern (18th-20th Century)
  • Personal
  • Philosophy of Science
  • Physical Sciences
  • Primary Source
  • Secondary Source
URL: 

http://vlib.org/

Excerpt: 

The VL is the oldest catalog of the web, started by Tim Berners-Lee, the creator of html and the web itself. Unlike commercial catalogs, it is run by a loose confederation of volunteers, who compile pages of key links for particular areas in which they are expert; even though it isn't the biggest index of the web, the VL pages are widely recognised as being amongst the highest-quality guides to particular sections of the web.

IP at the National Academies

Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 11/08/2007 - 20:22.
  • Computers/Information Technology
  • Consumer Technology
  • Contemporary (Post-WWII)
  • Government
  • Medicine/Behavioral Science
  • Secondary Source
URL: 

http://ip.nationalacademies.org/

Author: 
National Academies
Excerpt: 

Welcome to the National Academies' Intellectual Property website. From Internet content protection to human gene patenting, Intellectual Property (IP) in many forms have emerged from legal obscurity to public debate. This website serves as a guide to the Academies' extensive work on Intellectual Property and a forum to discuss ongoing work

Knight's 1881 American Mechanical Dictionary

Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 11/08/2007 - 20:22.
  • Consumer Technology
  • Corporation
  • Engineering
  • Industrial/Military Technology
  • Modern (18th-20th Century)
  • Primary Source
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