History of Technology and Science: Primary Sources: Collections, Papers, and Diaries

Includes correspondence, scientific notebooks, journals, blueprints, articles, and photographs documenting Bell's personal life, inventions, and other scientific interests.

Scanned images of Bell's notebooks.

Full-text digital archive of Allen Newell's pioneering work in artificial intelligence and cognitive science, including publications, project reports, teaching materials, correspondence, and eventually audio and video.

Links to the history of the telephone and the histories of a number of current telephone companies. In addition, information about antique telephones, wiring diagrams, where to obtain parts, etc.

Documents on the decision to use the atomic bomb

Interviews with A-bomb survivors, recollections, photos, etc.

Pictures of early cameras, with information on how they worked.

Full-text digital archive of Clifford Glenwood Shull, 1937 graduate of Carnegie Tech (now Carnegie Mellon University) and winner of the 1994 Nobel Prize in Physics. Shull’s pioneering work with Ernie Wollan in neutron scattering while a physicist at Oak Ridge from June 1946 through 1955 led to his Nobel Prize.

Historical documents on the Cold War including the arms race, etc.

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Over 150 interviews from workers, union leaders, engineers, and management which offer insight into the impact of technological change on work skills, job satisfaction, relationships between workers, etc. The printed guide, arranged by name of the individual interviewed, gives a brief summary of the interview. An index by occupation is also included. A printed supplement provides overviews of technological changes within the industries included in the study.

Correspondence and diaries of Ezra Cornell, active pioneer in the establishment of telegraph lines throughout the country, founder of Western Union Telegraph and Cornell University.

Full text resource on the life and work of Galileo. Includes translated letters from Galileo's Daughter, Maria Celeste.

Overviews of the history of computing, biographies, histories of programming languages and software, emulators of historical systems, etc.

Links to documents, web sites, etc.

Full-text digital archive of Joseph F. Traub, former Head of the Computer Science Department at Carnegie Mellon University (1971-1979), and current Edwin Howard Armstrong Professor of Computer Science at Columbia University.

Digitized collections, in all subjects, from the Library of Congress

Books, periodicals, manuscripts, and over 2,500 plastic objects produced from the late-19th Century to the present day that represent facets of the development of the plastics industry. The collection includes papers related to individual plastic innovators and to companies, both exceptional and representative of developments in plastics production, design and marketing.

Reader-supported independent publication, not affiliated with any government or private institution. First developed in mid-1990s, this site is one of the oldest space-related portals on the web. It is unmatched in its level of detail and visual content by any other publication in the world. In many respects, RussianSpaceWeb.com has been the online face of the Russian space program and one of the few independent voices consistently tracking the Russian space industry for the past two decades.