ECHO: Exploring & Collecting History Online
Site maintained by Geoge Mason University that "provides a centralized guide for those looking for the scattered Web sites on the history of science and technology."
Internet History of Science Sourcebook
A subset dealing with the history of science derived from Paul Halsall's internet sourcebook series, a "world wide web project designed to provide easy access to primary sources and other teaching materials in a non-commercial environment."
MedHist
Comprehensive collection of links dealing with the history of medicine. Also see the History of Biomedicine site from the Karolinska Institute.
Curtis Botanical Magazine
Collection from the National Agricultural Library (NAL) of more than 1,000 botanical images originally published in Botanical Magazine between 1787 and 1807. Also see the NAL's other collections of drawings and material.
The Linnean Correspondence
This site includes a selection of Carl Linnaeus' correspondence dating from 1735 to 1772 , a biography and bibiliography.
MendelWeb MendelWeb is an educational resource for teachers and students
interested in the origins of classical genetics, introductory
data analysis, elementary plant science, and the history and literature
of science.
New Madrid Compendium Newspaper, scientific and eyewitness accounts of the earthquakes of 1811-1812 that struck the Mississippi valley.
Papers of Sir Joseph Banks "Digital reproductions and transcripts of those papers of Sir Joseph Banks which are held at the State Library of New South Wales, These amount to approximately 10,000 manuscript pages.
Surveyors of the American West
Collection of New York Public Library presents the journals and photographs of two 19th century surveyors of the West, William Henry Jackson and Robert Brewster Stanton.
Alchemy Web Site and Virtual Library Comprehensive site dealing with alchemy "providing tens of thousands of pages of text, over 1700 images, over 200 complete alchemical texts, extensive bibliographical material on the printed books and manuscripts, numerous articles, introductory and general reference material on alchemy."
Caltech Archives PhotoNet
Searchable collection of more than 5,000 digitized photographs from the collection of the California Institute of Technology.
Galileo Project "The Galileo Project is a hypertext source of information on the life and work of Galileo Galilei (1564-1642) and the science of his time."
Portsmouth and Macclesfield Collections Cambridge University collection of that documents "Isaac Newton's writings and ideas, in letters and manuscripts, on gravitation, calculus, the Principia mathematica, optics, chemistry, comets and other subjects."
Three Mile Island 1979 Emergency Dickinson College collection includes interviews, newspaper clippings, government documents and other media dealing with the 1979 emergency.
The Alfred Russel Wallace Page
Page dedicated to Wallace with biography, chronology, an extensive collection of Wallace's works and a comprehensive bibliography. Also see the Natural History Museum's digitized collection of Wallace material.
A History of Evolutionary Thought
Collection of concise biographies of thinkers and scientists who have contributed to evolution from the Museum of Paleontology at UC Berkeley.
Paper
Dinosaurs Exhibit of 136 images of original printed materials related to the
history of dinosaur discovery provided by the Linda Hall Library.
Piltdown Plot Collection of primary and secondary articles dealing with the Piltdown hoax.
Contagion: Historical Views of Diseases and Epidemics Harvard collection of "digitized copies of books, serials, pamphlets, incunabula, and manuscripts" dealing 8 notable epidemics ranging from London's Great Plague of 1665 to tropical diseases during the building of the Panama Canal in 1918.
Digital Clendening
University of Kansas Medical Center digital collections includes posters, photographs and a selection of Florence Nightingale letters.
Disability History Museum Library This archive contains "digital versions of images, texts, and other artifacts related to disability history" dating back to the 18th century.
History of Phrenology on the Web Site created by a graduate student at Cambridge which includes a explanation of phrenology, chronology, images, primary sources and a bibliography.
Human Radiation Experiments
Collection of Department of Energy material dealing with radiation experiments during the Cold War. Included are photographs, documents and oral histories.
Image Archive on the American Eugenics Movement Searchable collection of more than 1,200 images (including photographs, documents and news clippings) from the DNA Learning Center at Cold Springs Harbor Laboratory. Also includes an extensive exhibit. Materials date from 1910-1940.
John Snow Site
Site focusing on epidemiological pioneer, John Snow, who tracked down the cause of London's cholera epidemic of 1854. The site uses maps, texts and images "that enable users to dig deeply into Snow's background, pursue the facts surrounding his investigation of the 1854 epidemic and locate key sites on a detailed period map of London."
League of Nations Malaria Documents World Health Organization collection of 282 documents from the Malaria Commission published between 1924 and 1932. Also see WHO's collection of digitized rare books on the plague, smallpox and epidemiology.
Medicine and Madison Avenue "This website explores the complex relationships between modern medicine and modern advertising" through 600 health-related newspaper and magazine advertisements published from the 1910s through the 1950s.
Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection Online archive of over 5,000 items comprised of "correspondence, notes, reports, printed materials, photographs, negatives, and artifacts" detailing the work of the U. S. Army Yellow Fever Commission with yellow fever.
Alexander Graham Bell Family Papers Collection of more than 1400 items "consisting of correspondence, scientific notebooks, journals, blueprints, articles, and photographs documenting Bell's invention of the telephone and his involvement in the first telephone company, his family life, his interest in the education of the deaf, and his aeronautical and other scientific research." Part of American Memory. See also
Alexander Graham Bell's Path to the Telephone.
Department of Transportation Documents Collection includes historic investigation reports of railroad and aviation accidents and papers of H.S. Fairbank and others involved in the creation of the interstate highway system.
Making the Macintosh
This site "is principally an effort at documentation. Its electronic archive consists of material from collections at Stanford, and newly-published material from the private collections of people involved in the history of the Macintosh."
Samuel F.B. Morse Papers Collection of Morse papers at the Library of Congress documents the "invention of the electromagnetic telegraph, his participation in the development of telegraph systems in the United States and abroad" and other topics.
The Transport Archive Thousand of images that detail the history of transportation in Britain from the 18th century to the present.
Wilbur and Orville Wright Papers Library of Congress collection of "correspondence, diaries and notebooks, scrapbooks, drawings, printed matter, and other documents, as well as the Wrights' collection of glass-plate photographic negatives."
Image: Detail from Da Vinci anatomical drawing.
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