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Evolution of Technology Project
Art: Pencils to Digital Tablets
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FOR BACKGROUND INFORMATION check:
Access Science This is the online version of the McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science and Technology.
Britannica Online. Our version provides more detail than the free version at Britannica.com. Use freely at school; use username and password from home.
BOOKS:
Edith Hamilton Library Online Catalog
Bibliography of Books on Reserve for this Project - the books are located on the Reserve Shelving in the Library close to the Circulation Desk. Reserve material circulates after 3:00pm and only for overnight. It must be returned by 9:00am next day.
MAGAZINE, JOURNAL and NEWSPAPER ARTICLES:
TO ACCESS BRYN MAWR DATABASES REMOTELY:
Database Information (with Community page password only)
ACADEMIC DIRECTORIES: Here are a few good ones. All of these search for invisible web pages.
More on Subject Directories (Joe Barker, UC Berkeley)
EVALUATING WEB PAGES:
Evaluating Web Pages: Techniques to Apply & Questions to Ask (UC Berkeley)
Evaluating Information Found on the Internet (Eisenhower Library JHU)
WEB LINKS:
Art: Pencils to Digital Tablets
Introduction to the Digital Art Museum - site includes history, art and essays on the practice of digital fine art; no explanations of technology, however.
Museum of Computer Art - some fine examples of computer assisted art; no explanations of how effects are achieved.
How Offset Printing Works - How Stuff Works site.
Computer Assistive Technology Solutions from Ability Hub
Assistive Technology News Portal
How Do Touch Screen Monitors Know Where You're Touching? - How Stuff Works This site represents only the tiniest fraction of technical problems conquered by tech and engineering solutions.
How Robots Work - How Stuff Works Another important field of study for this subject.
Consumer Audio: Phonographs to MP3s
MP3 Overview (a Web Monkey site; lots of annoying ads)
Consumer Video: Nickelodeons to DVDs
Edison Motion Pictures - History
History of the Motion Picture: Who Invented the Cinema, the Camera, or the Film? - About.com site
Computer and Video Game History
PC and Game History - from IC When; offers an annotated time-line for product development
History of Mapmaking (briefly)
GPS History (National Park Service)
Handhelds: Calculators to PDAs
How Personal Digital Assistants (PDAs) Work
A Report Card on Hand-Held Computing: a Short History of a Small Device
Handheld Technology: The Basics
From Still Photogaphs to Motion Pictures
Information: Gutenberg to the Telegraph to the Internet
A Brief History of Pre-Electronic Printing - personal article by Lance Goines, 1999. Illustrated.
An article from ProQuest: (includes example of how to cite article in your paper) From movable type to data deluge
John Gehl, Suzanne Douglas, Daniel Munyon. The World & I. Washington: Jan 1999. Vol. 14, Iss. 1; p. 24
Information Age: People, Information and Technology - Part of an exhibition at the National Museum of Natural History, this site offers information on the telegraph and itsimportance in information history
Virtual Museum of Printing - a Portuguese site (in English!) that has a chronology of printing and printing devices going from Gutenberg in the 1400s to 1988. Includes short biographies and small illustrations of many kinds of machines.
Deaver, James A. "The Information Age and the Printing Press: Looking Backward to See Ahead," Rand Corporation, 1998. An introductory chapter to a book that offers a rundown of 'unintended consequences' of the printing press as a way of seeing that our lives will be changed in unpredictable ways by the electronic or digital age.
Medical Imaging (X-Rays, CAT scans, MRIs, Ultrasound, etc.)
Full Body CT Scans: What you need to know
Obstetric Ultrasound - includes material on its present use; see also the very comprehensive article: History of Ultrasound in Obstetrics and Gynecology
Personal Computers: IBM to Apple, Mainframes to Laptops
Chronology of Personal Computers (from 1947-)
Photography: Daguerrotypes to Digital Imaging
American Museum of Photography : Resources -- A primer on Processes
How Cameras Work (Single Lens Reflex)
From Still Photogaphs to Motion Pictures
Thehistoryof.net-The History of Projectors
History of Edison Motion Pictures
History of Refrigerators and Freezers-see links to other webpages
The History of Household Wonders-History of the Refrigerator
The Impact of Refrigeration-History Magazine
Robotics: Moon Landings to 'Smart Robots'
Robots in Space
An amusing introd. from Brookes University in Oxford, which nonetheless has some good information
Social Network Sites: Definition, History, and Scholarship
MediaShift . Digging Deeper::Your Guide to Social Networking ...(PBS)
Telephony: Operators to Voice-Activated Cell Phones
History of the Telephone: Alexander Graham Bell, Elisha Gray, and the Invention of the Telephone
TelecomWriting.com: Telephone History Series, by Tom Farley
Television: Black & White to Satellite
Farnovision.com - An explanation of television's invention
From Still Photogaphs to Motion Pictures
History of Early Color Television
How Satellite TV Works - How Stuff Works site
Television History - Look at the 'Tech Data" in the early periods; lots of images of types of TV
Television History - Very useful!
September, 2007
