- Museum of the History of Science, University of Oxford
Includes a collection of historic scientific instruments.
www.mhs.ox.ac.uk
- Greatest Engineering Achievements of the 20th Century
The top twenty achievements in terms of their impact on the quality of life, chosen by the National Academy of Engineering and its collaborators.
www.greatachievements.org
- Institute and Museum of History and Science - Florence, Italy
Collection includes the apparatus and scientific instruments of the Medici and the Lorenese collection of instrument and didactic and experimental devices.
galileo.imss.firenze.it
- Exploring & Collecting History Online (ECHO)
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Recording important memories of advances, setbacks, and events in the history of science and technology.
echo.gmu.edu
- Today in Science History
Features births, deaths, and events in the history of science, invention, and technology.
www.todayinsci.com
- Art of Renaissance Science: Galileo and Perspective
Explores the science of the Italian Renaissance and how Galileo's mathematics influenced the artwork of Renaissance painters and architects.
www.mcm.edu/academic/galileo/ars/arshtml/arstoc.html
- Australian Science Archives Project (ASAP)
Locates, sorts, and indexes the archival records of Australian scientists and scientific institutions.
www.asap.unimelb.edu.au
- Ernst Haeckel: Kunstformen der Natur
Scans of Haeckel's 1899-1904 scientific illustrations.
caliban.mpiz-koeln.mpg.de/~stueber/haeckel/kunstformen/natur.html
- Isis
Scholarly articles, research notes, and commentary on the history of science, medicine, and technology, and their cultural influences. Journal of the History of Science Society.
www.journals.uchicago.edu/Isis/home.html
- Telegraph and Scientific Instrument Museum
Museum of telegraph, antique scientific instruments, radios, microphones, and computers with hundreds of photographs and descriptions.
www.chss.montclair.edu/~pererat/telegraph.html
- Remote Sensing in History
observe.arc.nasa.gov/nasa/exhibits/history/history_0.html
- Science Odyssey, A
Companion site to the PBS series which takes a look back at the scientific and technological discoveries of the twentieth century.
www.pbs.org/wgbh/aso
- History of Science/Science Studies Reference Sources
A bibliography listing a wide range of reference sources for science and technology studies and the history of science.
gort.ucsd.edu/ds/initial.html
- National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration History
Stories, poems, art, and biographies from the United States' oldest science agency.
www.history.noaa.gov
- GeoClio
History of geology and the geosciences.
geoclio.st.usm.edu
- Transistorized!
Learn how clashing egos and top secret research went into the invention of the transistor, perhaps the most important invention of the 20th century.
www.pbs.org/transistor
- Steam Engine Library
Collection of historical documents relating to the steam engine.
www.history.rochester.edu/steam
- RaceSci: History of Race in Science
Collecting news and scholarship about the changing notion of "race" in science, medicine, and technology.
www.racesci.org
- Epact: Scientific Instruments of Medieval and Renaissance Europe
Collection of early scientific instruments from four European museums.
www.mhs.ox.ac.uk/epact
- ExNet On-line: Science and Technology
Heroes of science and technology, from the Industrial Revolution to Thomas Crapper, with a particular emphasis on the U.K.
www2.exnet.com/magsample/science.html
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