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  • theplumber.com
    Includes a history of plumbing from Babylonia to the USA, links, FAQ, and email the plumber a question.
    www.theplumber.com
  • 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
  • Walk Through Time, A
    The evolution of time measurement, from the National Institute of Standards and Technology.
    physics.nist.gov/GenInt/Time/time.html
  • Retro Thing
    The independent guide to vintage technology.
    www.retrothing.com
  • Making the Modern World
    Multimedia exhibit tracing how the Industrial Revolution transformed our world, and how it is still transforming today. Includes stories, timelines, and learning modules about science and invention from the 18th century to the present.
    www.makingthemodernworld.org.uk
  • James Burke's KnowledgeWeb (K-Web) Project
    Theorizes that everything in history--every event, every technology--came about because of something or someone that preceded it.
    www.k-web.org
  • Welcome To ... Histories
    Features the chronology of hyper complex numbers and electromagnetic theory.
    history.hyperjeff.net
  • Rothschild Petersen Patent Model Museum [pick] [read review]
    Privately owned collection of United States patent models and related documents.
    www.patentmodel.org
  • Vintage Technology
    Historical information and images of home electrical goods from the 20th century.
    www.vintage-technology.info
  • Mechanical Marvels of the Nineteenth Century [pick] [read review]
    Illustrated accounts and history of robots in the Victorian era 1865-1893.
    www.bigredhair.com/robots
  • Comptometer: Biography of a Machine
    Offers a history of the Comptometer, the first practical calculating machine invted by Dorr Eugene Felt in the late 1880s.
    members.cruzio.com/~vagabond/ComptHome.html
  • Devine Time
    Interactive journey through history focusing on inventions and technology.
    www.devinetime.com
  • John Harrison and the Longitude Problem
    The story behind the manufacture of John Harrison's marine timekeepers, which allowed early sailors to establish their longitude. Presented by the Royal Observatory in Greenwich.
    www.nmm.ac.uk/server.php?show=conWebDoc.355&navId;=005001001
  • Darwin-L Archives
    Professional discussion group on the history and theory of the historical sciences.
    rjohara.net/darwin
 



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