This web site is an online gateway to the extraordinary library resources of Harvard University and serves as an important research tool for Harvard's current students, faculty, staff, and researchers who hold Harvard IDs and PINs. The site also provides practical information on each of the more than 90 libraries that form the Harvard system. Visitors and guests should consult the Library's Frequently Asked Questions before navigating the sit
The invention of photography was one of the most significant events of the 19th century, irrevocably changing our perception of reality. "Here is a discovery launched upon the world, that must make a revolution in art," declared the New Yorker shortly before Louis-Jacques-Mande Daguerre's groundbreaking process was announced in Paris on August 19, 1839. This new technique of producing exact likenesses on a sheet of silver-plated copper soon became a sensation in the United States. Studios opened in every major city; itinerant artists traveled the countryside. Noted for their silvery, mirrorlike sheen, daguerreotypes framed the faces of the nation's great men and women, caught the spirit of Westward expansion and chronicled much of mid-19th-century American life.
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We bill ourselves as "A Museum Without Walls... For An Art Without Boundaries." Even though we have no walls, we do have "floors," separate areas for different activities. At the bottom of most pages, you'll find a navigation bar that will let you choose our Exhibitions floor, our Main Entrance floor, our Research Center or our Museum Shops. Just click on the place you want to visit. Or click on the Museum's logo and you'll find yourself transported to our Home Page.
This site exhibits photographs from 1839 to the late 20th century. Thirteen current exhibits offer a 100 to 600-word introductory essay and a wide range of images. "The Face of Slavery" presents ten photographs of African Americans from 1855 to 1905. The work of Southworth and Hawes, a photography team active between 1843 and 1862, is represented by eight daugerrotypes of women. In "Do You Believe?" visitors may consider evidence of ghostly existence offered by over 20 spirit photographs taken between 1875 and 1932. In "Photography as a Fine Art," over a dozen photos show dogs behaving like people from the 1850s to the 1950s. In "At Ease," photographs from around 1850 refute the popular notion that early portraiture was stiff. An exhibit of the trick photography of William H. "Dad" Martin presents photos produced between 1894 and 1912 that show exaggerated ordinary objects. In "Of Bricks and Light," the museum exhibits over 30 architectural photographs in five sections, from "Grand Vistas" to "Details & Glimpses." Business executive and photographer Shotaro Shimomura took pictures of his trip around the world in 1934-35; some of these are exhibited in "An Eye for the World." An interactive exhibit of cartes de visite allows visitors to investigate details. The museum also showcases over 40 of its favorite pieces. The site also provides a 1,700-word explanatory essay on photographic processes and links to more than 25 other resources concerning the history and art of photography. This site cannot be searched by subject, however, which somewhat limits its usefulness for research.
Through the years, Kodak has led the way with an abundance of new products and processes that have made photography simpler, more useful and more enjoyable. Today, our work increasingly involves digital technology, combining the power and convenience of electronics with the quality of traditional photography to produce systems that bring levels of utility and fun to the taking, "making" and utilization of images.
The twentieth century has seen an unprecedented development and global expansion in Western science and its accompanying technological advances, stimulated in part by two world wars. This wedding of science and technology-or "technoscience" as it is sometimes called-has spelled great prosperity for some and a radical change in lifestyle for most. The enormous range of products and services it has produced has profoundly affected ways of thinking and social structures across the world. But it has also left its scars in the form of environmental pollution, harmful medications, technological accidents, and weaponry of unprecedented destructiveness.
The Hungarian Academy of Sciences (HAS) is an independent public body based on the principle of self-government.
It is constituted by the members of the Academy - ordinary and corresponding as well as external and honorary members - and by those active representatives of science who hold a scientific degree (Ph.D. or D.Sc.).
At present the number of the ordinary members is 214, while the number of the corresponding members is 86. Academicians are elected by ordinary and corresponding members. The number of public body-members at present - with academicians - is 7030. They - other than academicians - exercise their rights through representation, electing 200 non-academician representatives to the General Assembly, the main organ of the Academy, for three years.
This site documents the initial period of the discovery and development of insulin, 1920-1925, by presenting over seven thousand page images reproducing original documents ranging from laboratory notebooks and charts, correspondence, writings, and published papers to photographs, awards, clippings, scrapbooks, printed ephemera and artifacts. Drawing mainly on the Banting, Best and related collections housed at the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library and the Archives and Records Management Services at the University of Toronto, it also includes significant holdings from the Aventis Pasteur (formerly Connaught) Archives, and the personal collection of Dr. Henry Best.
Eötvös Loránd munkái és méltatása (Válogatás Eötvös Loránd tudományos és tudománypolitikai munkáiból, Eötvös Loránd és Eötvös József levelezése, versek, kinevezési dokumentumok, Eötvös Loránd méltatása, bibliográfiák)
The Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts is the most eminent scientific and art institution in Serbia. It was founded by Law of November 1, 1886 as the Serbian Royal Academy. SRA was the successor to the Serbian Learned Society with which it merged in 1892 and accepted its members as its own either regular or honorary members, its tasks and its place in scientific and cultural life. The same occurred several decades earlier when the Serbian Learned Society took over the place and functions of the Society of Serbian Letters, the first learned society in the Serbian Principality.
Find out how electrocuting chickens (1775), getting laboratory assistants to put their hands in buckets of saline (1887), taking the ECG of a horse and following it to the slaughterhouse (1909), induction of indiscriminate angina attacks (1931), and hypothermic dogs (1953) have helped to improve our understanding of the ECG as a clinical tool. And why is the ECG labelled PQRST (1895)?
