Agropolis-Museum is a Science Center dealing with topics such as food, nutrition, agriculture, with an historical approach on a worldwide scale.
From his origin, man struggled endlessly to get food. But the forms of this quest have greatly changed. This exhibition of Agropolis-Museum wants to show the most significant facts of the agro-food development, essentially in the euro-mediterranean region
An interdisciplinary organization, SHOT is concerned not only with the history of technological devices and processes, but also with the relations of technology to science, politics, social change, the arts and humanities, and economics.
This is the home page for the Society for the History of Technology (SHOT), an American organization interested in studying technology in the past and its relationship to culture, politics, economics, art and society. The site has three subsections: one provides information about the organization, its membership and leadership, informing visitors how to sign up to become a member, and displaying updated details about prizes, awards and meetings. Two, covers the publications of the organization, specifically the SHOT newletter and booklet series as well as Technology and Culture, published by SHOT and the Johns Hopkins University Press. The latter is available on line only to subscribers. The last subsection, three, lists materials (mostly on the Web) of interest to historians of technology, such as syllabi from history of technology courses and the sites of other institutions dedicated to the history of technology.
As a Research Unit our mission was to explore new ways of understanding change through oral history and to harness the power of the Internet in presenting oral testimony in the virtual museum environment.
We also conducted special projects.The Centre for the History Of Defence Electronics, CHiDE, was the embryo of the Research Unit. Follow the link on the left to find out about the history of CHiDE and the work that has been achieved.
The History of Technology Research Unit is located in the School of Conservation Sciences at Bournemouth University. This site is particularly interesting for its collection and presentation of the oral history of technology in the twentieth century. The authors had an ongoing project on the history of military electronics, and had conducted dozens of interviews on various consumer and industrial technologies which changed the lives of many in the last century. An online entry form allows visitors to record their own memories of using twentieth-century technologies such as the washing machine and television. The site also contains a geographical map of museums dedicated to preserving old machines and technologies.
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 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.
Enter the fascinating world of this internationally famous Museum and have a unique experience, it marks the culmination of a dream by Ex-Racing champion Brian Radam. His interest in this type of equipment stems from early involvement in the family business which started in 1945 which has finally developed into The Discount Garden Machinery Warehouse Stanleys with over 200 new models displayed, catering for all aspects of sales, spares and service. The Museum has now become one of the Worlds leading authorities on vintage lawnmowers and is now the largest import & export specialists in antique garden machinery, supplying parts, archive conservation of manuscript materials and valuing machines from all over the world. The Museum retains a character not often seen in these modern times.
This quirky museum, located in Southport, Lancashire, houses hundreds of lawnmowers from the past century. Their site is fairly sparse, with almost no text on the history of lawnmowers. However, there are 15 large photographs of some of their most prized specimens from early horse-drawn mowers to automated models. The museum also provides details of some of their collection, which includes lawnmowers of the rich and famous (e.g., Prince Charles).
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.
The notebooks project is part of an attempt to make the collected research of this team available to other scholars and also to less specialized and casual researchers, by taking advantage of the interface afforded by graphical Web browsers. In particular, having spent the time to make sense of the notebooks, we felt it would be helpful for others to have our transciption and (eventually) interpretations and cross-references, along with the source document.
This University of Virginia site contains one of Alexander Graham Bell's notebooks (1875-1876) from a critical phase in the invention of the telephone. The site primarily consists of about 100 quality images of diagrams from Bell's notebook. There are also data entries and brief notes (transcribed by the editor) available. Most of the experiments listed deal with electricity, magnetism and related metallurgic tests. Various circuits and electrical switches are explored in different configurations. While the site does not contain biographical material, it provides an interesting glimpse into the work of one of America's great inventors.
The museum opened in 1990 as a non-profit 501C(3) corporation. Originally it was planned for Princeton, New Jersey. The founders moved to Bozeman in 1988 and after looking at the tourism in the area - the decision was made to start the museum there. Located in beautiful Montana, the museum draws thousands of visitors from all 50 states and over 50 countries. With Yellowstone National Park to the south and Glacier National Park to the northwest, the museum is being included in sightseeing itineraries by visitors worldwide. From its inception, the American Computer Museum has emphasized the evolution of the information age with an emphasis on the United States. Nevertheless, there are ample displays throughout the museum that showcase the contributions made by other nations and cultures to the rise of the information age. The American Computer Museum has been written about in many publications including, The New York Times, The New Yorker Magazine, The Los Angeles Times, PC Week, QST Magazine, USA Today, etc. and has been featured on television including C-Span.
This small museum in Bozeman, Montana contains artifacts from and exhibits on the history of computing and the mathematics that have made this technology possible. The online exhibit is relatively small, located to photographs; the site contains about 20 photographs of their exhibits and a series of photographs of computer innovators who have received a "Hall of Fame" award from the museum and its associated institutions. Visitors to the Compuseum's Web site are encouraged to visit the actual museum.
This small site lists seven major innovators in the history of electronic instruments such as the electronic organ and the Theremin, and has brief biographies of three of them. The biographies cover the lives and inventions of these musical innovators, and there are several photographs and drawings of the instruments being used. The site is intended for a general audience with no knowledge of the history of electronic instruments. The home page on the site has accompanying electronic music.
