Computer Technology

The Apple Online Museum - One of many; quite complete, however.

Center for Women & Information Technology - A site bringing together all aspects of women and technology, engineering, and education; developed and published by UMBC

Computer Industry History - a chronology of computer history from 3000 B.C. to the present; includes histories of various operating systems and software; links from the Electronic Software Publishing Company

Computer People Biographies  -   biographical information on hundreds of people in the business; links from the Electronic Software Publishing Company

Flashback: Prophets of a Computer Age - Articles first published in The Atlantic, including Vannevar Bush's "As We May Think" (1945); Martin Greenberger's "Computers of Tomorrow" (1964) and "Java Theory" and "Navigating the Galaxies", both by James Fallows (1996).

FOLDOC - Free On-Line Dictionary of Computing; this site comes from the United Kingdom; U. S. mirror site.

History of Computers - Very interesting database with info. from many sources about everything from the abacus to Konrad Zeuse.

History of Computing Information  - authored by Mike Muss of the U.S.Army Research Labs (home of Enniac); this site also contains many photos. and illustrations

History of Modern Computers and Their Inventors - About.com site

IEEE History Center - Fascinating site for the history of electrical engineering and computing; try its FAQs for thumbnail answers to many questions

Internet and World Wide Web History - Links from the Electronic Software Publishing Company

Internet History of Science Sourcebook - Includes primary documents from B.C. to the present

The Machine that Changed the World - a pithy and fact-filled site that accompanies a video series with the same title

NetLingo: The Internet Dictionary

Past Notable Women of Computers and Mathematics - part of the ADA Project from Yale)

Search Engine Watch - Danny Sullivan's wonderful site that lists, rates, and explains search engines and their development.

TechEncyclopedia - from TechWeb: the Business Technology Network - a dictionary, not an encyclopedia, but useful.

Virtual Museum of Computing (VMoC)

Yahoo! Computers and Internet History

Non-Computer Technology

Bridge Building - Art & Science - best site! Great links for all kinds of bridges.

Famous Engineers - part of iCivilEngineer, this site offers terse biographical information, but multiple links to engineering projects of noted engineers.  Rare and valuable site.

Greatest Engineering Achievements of the Twentieth Century - the group effort of some 30 professional engineering societies

Henry Ford Museum and Greenfield Village - Use the Site Index to tour the museum and take the special tours; see the special exhibits

Historical Inventions, A-Z (About.com site)

How Stuff Works - a really popular site that has lots of useful information about all kinds of gadgets

iCivilEngineer - the premier free civil engineering site; everything from scholarships in engineering to best engineering feats of the 20th century; lots of technical data in all sub-fields

National Air & Space Museum (Smithsonian) - visit the exhibits section for information on flight, whether by bird, plane, or space ship

Science Museum - a British site that includes interesting exhibits.  Choose 'Exhibitions Online" to see, for example, the section labeled 'Exhiblets' for wonderful illustrated short histories of people and inventions

Top Ten Construction Achievements of the 20th Century - based on innovation, economic effect, benefit to humanity, quality of work, etc.--includes buildings, roads, airports, bridges

September, 2007