Monica, Richard Belanger invented the sippy cup, which he later licensed to Platex. Playtex manufacturers and sells its cups under the tradename of "Sipster". The sippy cup is a spillproof drinking cup designed for tots. Richard Belanger now serves as a design engineer at Adhesive Machinery, a company he helped form, and has been issued several patents related to glue guns.
The Trinity Site -- where the first atomic bomb was exploded on July 16, 1945 -- is 110 miles south of Albuquerque between the Oscura mountains on the east and the San Mateo mountains on the west. It is about 60 miles northwest of Alamogordo. The site is open to the public twice a year -- on the first Saturday in April and the first Saturday in October. The site was also open an extra day on July 16, 1995, the 50th anniversary of the test.
The Air Force Space and Missile Museum at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station preserves both the hardware and the spirit of United State's ventures into space. The museum displays numerous missiles, rockets and related space equipment, is manned primarily by knowlegeable volunteers, and is open to the public daily. (Subject to launch constraints at times).
The Department of Energy, in cooperation with the Department of Defense, declassified a series of historical films on the nuclear weapons program. They were converted to videotape format to help preserve the films and to facilitate the declassification and release process. These films document the history of the development of nuclear weapons, starting with the first bomb tested at Trinity Site in southeastern New Mexico in July 1945. This is the first time the films have ever been edited for declassification and public release. (Portions of some of these films were previously released.)
This fascinating site includes clips from more than 70 recently declassified nuclear weapons test films from the Department of Energy and Department of Defense archives. The films, originally recorded for public information, training, and data analysis purposes, document the history and development of nuclear weapons from the first bomb tested at Trinity Site in Southeast New Mexico in 1945 through the early 1970s. The site offers a series of short sample clips for each film and copies of the full-length films can be ordered through the site. Each film is accompanied by a 500-750-word description and contextualization of its contents. The films are listed in numerical groups, making the site somewhat complicated to navigate, though a keyword search engine and table of contents are available. This site is ideal for those studying the history of the American nuclear weapons program and weapons technology.
The Medieval Technology Pages are an attempt to provide accurate, referenced information on technological innovation and related subjects in western Europe during the Middle Ages. There are several ways to access this information. The most direct method is through the Subject Index which provides direct access to all the technology pages. Many of the articles are also present in a historical Timeline. And material can be found by examining the References which back-reference all articles through the sources used.
In 1903, two events launched the history of modern aviation. The Wright brothers made their first flight at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, and William Boeing, born Oct. 1, 1881, in Detroit, Michigan, left Yale engineering college for the West Coast.
After making his fortune trading forest lands around Grays Harbor, Washington, Boeing moved to Seattle in 1908 and, two years later, went to Los Angeles for the first American air meet. Boeing tried to get a ride in one of the airplanes, but not one of the dozen aviators participating in the event would oblige. Boeing came back to Seattle disappointed, but determined to learn more about this new science of aviation.
This is an attractive corporate site. Features include biographies of the founders of Boeing, North American Rockwell and McDonnell Douglas and corporate histories of the three companies. Biographies include audio and video exhibits while histories of the four corporations include lengthy essays, biographical sketches of corporate figures and aeronautical engineers, and chronologies. The site also provides detailed information about the weaponry, aerospace vehicles, military and commercial aircraft produced by the three companies. and the front page is complemented by a photo gallery. Researchers looking for corporate archives will not find them here and will have to search through various pages in the www.boeing.com site.
Nineteen ninety-one saw both the fortieth anniversary of the establishment of a major Air Force Laboratory at Griffiss Air Force Base, the Rome Air Development Center (RADC), and the first anniversary of the redesignation of RADC as Rome Laboratory. The year was eventful in many other ways as well. Rome Lab technologies played a vital part in the stunning coalition victory in the Persian Gulf. The most profound restructuring of the organization in its history was accomplished smoothly and ahead of schedule, as Rome Lab received formal designation as the Air Force "superlab" for Command, Control, Communications, and Intelligence (C3I). The continuing collapse of Soviet Communism, and the resulting retrenchment in the United States defense establishment, presented Rome Lab, and, indeed, the entire Science and Technology community, with radically new challenges and significantly decreased resources.
The Air Force Research Laboratory has developed a history site about Information Systems Science and Technology. The site includes an introductory essay about the history of this project, detailed chronology, original documents, a glossary of terms, and some images of the Rome Air Development Center. The Signal Corps Laboratories originally located at Fort Monmouth were critical to the development of radio sets like the Walkie-Talkie and radars and radar technology that proved crucial during the Second World War. Later, the laboratories were involved in the development of air defense systems like the Distant Early Warning (DEW) line as well as High Frequency (HF)and troposcatter radios. In 1960 Rome Laboratory helped usher in the beginnings of satellite communications in a series of tests involving the Echo I passive communications satellite.
The National Railway Museum in York, England is the largest railway museum in the world, responsible for the conservation and interpretation of the British national collection of historically significant railway vehicles and other artefacts. The Museum contains an unrivalled collection of locomotives, rolling stock, railway equipment, documents and records
The website of Europe's "Museum of the Year" has a wealth of information about the history of railways and locomotion. In addition to physical archives that include over 100 engines, and thousands of train related items, the National Railway Museum also has an archive. The Archive is one of Britain's major reference sources for the study of railway history, containing millions of photographs, charts, maps, posters and books. The Photographic archive alone includes 1.4 million prints. Each of the eight collections (from books, to photographs to engineering drawings) provides a web page describing in depth the nature of the collection. Five exhibits provide greater depth to a few of the millions of items in the Museum's collections. These exhibits generally focus on railway photography and art.
The Free Library of Philadelphia, with the generous support of the Institute of Museum and Library Services, invites you to visit our Web version of the 100th birthday party for the United States, the Centennial Exhibition of 1876.
In these pages we present the Library's unique collection of silver albumen photographs with various views and points of access. Welcome to the Centennial at the Free Library of Philadelphia. Enjoy your visit!
In 1876, the United States celebrated its 100th birthday with a Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia. This site, presented by The Free Library of Philadelphia and funded by a National Leadership Grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services, presents more than 1500 digitized images of silver albumen photographs related to the Exhibition. The site is divided into four broad categories. ¨Exhibition Facts" contains a wide variety of statistics and brief (250-word) explanations of aspects like the Fair's organization, attendance, costs to visitors, transportation, food, grounds, and management. This section features photographs of buildings erected by participating foreign nations, images of the Library's Centennial Sheet Music Collection, and various other Fair attractions. Addressing the economic and cultural significance of the Fair, the site provides eight quotes about the Fair from public figures and contemporary writers, as well as a bibliography of more than 150 related scholarly works. A timeline traces the Fair's creation from the 1871 Act of Congress that created the U.S. Centennial Commission to plan the Philadelphia exhibition, to the removal of the exhibits in December 1876. In the Tours section visitors can click on sections of an interactive map of the fair grounds to find details and photographs of buildings and spaces in the Centennial Exhibition. The ¨Centennial Schoolhouse offers activities for students and teachers, including excerpts from a 17-year-old boy's diary about his visit to the Fair, a list of five children's books about the Fair published in 1876, and three newer children's books on the Fair. There are also ideas about how history, art, English, and world language teachers can use the site in their classrooms. Visitors can search the site by keyword or subject. This site is ideal for exploring the nationˆs first Worldˆs Fair and United States cultural history in general.
