The purpose of Trinity Atomic Web Site is to tell the story of nuclear weapons through historical documents, photos, and videos. In the spirit of Project Gutenberg, the intent is to create an online archive from the large body of U.S. government information about nuclear weapons. For the most part the original documents will be allowed to speak for themselves, with an occasional thread of narrative or clarification if it is helpful.
George Eastman House International Museum of Photography and Film is showcasing the world-renowned treasures of its photography, motion picture, and technology collections via the exhibition The Best of Photo & Film: Right Before Your Eyes. More than 200 unique and historically significant artifacts, presented together for the first time, will create this rare experience on view Sept. 13, 2003 through April 11, 2004.
In the early years of the Nineteenth Century most of the area presently occupied by Leeds City was still characterised by rural tranquility. Miles of rolling pastures and woodland separated Sheepscar from Seacroft Village. Viewed from the fields to the west of Wellington Bridge however, the Leeds of the 1830's presented an industrial panorama dominated by textile mills. The skyline bristled with tall chimneys belching their smoke and attendant lung diseases onto a largely helpless population.
The factory owners and middle classes lived to the west and on the hillsides of Woodhouse or Headingley - protected from the swirling smog by the prevailing westerly winds.
The Branch Line Society, founded in 1955, is a society of around 900 railway enthusiasts with particular interests in branch line and secondary railways world-wide. The Society's principal activities are the publication of a twice-monthly newsletter and organisation or support of external visits.
SCIENTIST, inventor, innovator, spy, soldier of fortune--admired, despised, honored, vilified--Benjamin Thompson, Count Rumford, a New Englander by birth: Who was this man? If you were to saunter along the walkway from the vicinity of Observatory Hill on the Dartmouth College campus toward the rear entrance at the second level of Fairchild Tower or hasten to class along the corridor on the main level of Wilder Laboratory, you would see, straight ahead, a colorful mosaic portraying this unusual character and his unique contributions to science and society. This artistic creation was commissioned by Sanborn Conner Brown 1935, and executed by David P. Holleman of Lexington, Massachusetts. It now hangs in the tower of the Sherman Fairchild Physical Sciences Center, along with paintings, sculptures, and photomurals, among instruments and apparatus from the Dartmouth College Collection of Historical Scientific Apparatus.
Why do the British and American approaches to machinery differ? A short history of machine tools explains why. No two countries were more responsible for the Industrial Revolution than America and England. In England, during the 18th and 19th centuries there was no shortage of skilled labor. Rather than replacing English workers, their machines made work more precise. Meanwhile, in sparsely populated America, the needs of a new nation required rapid and simple means of production. Machines augmented the scant work force. In England, machines served to make talented artisans better. In America, machines served to make entrepreneurs more productive.
Thomas Newcomen was a famous engineer from Dartmouth. He built a steam engine to pump water from the Cornish tin mines. His engines were also used in the 18th century to increase the supply of drinking water.
The collection began during the 18th century with models of several ships of the Royal Fleet. Now, more than a century later, the Museum has over 17,000 items, in addition to the photographic archive-containing about 30,000 photographs-and the drawing and ships’ plans archives approximately 1,500. In Portuguese and English.
The Kew Bridge Steam Museum is housed in a magnificent 19th Century Pumping Station and centres around the station's five world famous Cornish Beam Engines, two of which can be seen, in steam, every weekend.
Originally used to pump West London's water supply for more than a century, one of them, the "Grand Junction 90", is the largest working beam engine in the world.
Natural gas, the cleanest of the fossil fuels and least harmful to the environment, is increasingly becoming the fuel of choice. BG Group works in co-operation with governments, partners and other stakeholders to build natural gas markets worldwide.
