PBS site outlines the history of science and explains the origin of Modern Science. A brief timeline can also be found on this site.

Video games are everywhere these days, but where did they actually come from? The history of video games is a complicated story that involves giant computers in science labs, the founder of Chuck E. Cheese and billions of dollars in...

An anecdotal history of the people and communities that brought about the internet.

Some say that Ada Lovelace was the first programmer because she wrote instructions for a computing device designed by Charles Babbage. This site presents a brief history of Ada's life and the important role she played in the history of...

Beaver facts, trivia, history and stamps are all covered within this "The Canadian Beaver" website. Science-based information, such as reproduction, habitat, diet and predators has also been provided.

See film footage and read brief descriptions of Grover Cleveland Bergdoll's 1911 Model B flyer flight in 1934.

This is a brief biography of Charles Babbage, also known as the "Father of Computing".

This site presents a brief history of ancient Egyptian mathematics.

A brief overview of Hippocrates and his ideas about effective medicine.

A portion of a paper titled "What is Science?" provides a very brief historical summary.

The transistor and the integrated circuit were two inventions that fueled the technology explosion. This lecture presents a brief discussion of these two inventions.

The Altair 8800 was the first personal computer. This lecture series gives a brief description of the Altair 8800 and the impact it had on the computer industry.

EDVAC (Electronic Discrete Variable Automatic Computer) was an early computer that was one of the first to use the binary number system to represent information. This lecture is a brief presentation of the EDVAC.

This lesson will start with a brief history of robotics and explain how robots are beneficial to science and society. The lesson then will explore how robots have been used in recent space exploration efforts. The engineering design of...

A Turing Machine is not an actual machine, but rather a symbolic system that can be used to represent any algorithm used to solve a problem. This lecture series gives a very brief description of the Turing Machine.

The binary number system is a perfect fit for the dual-state technologies used in digital computing devices. This lecture series presents a brief description of how the two fit together.

A brief outline of the Gemini 3 mission. Links to other NASA websites are available.

A brief outline of the Apollo 7 mission. Links to other NASA websites are available.

This site from NASA provides a brief outline of the last Apollo mission to the moon, Apollo 17. Links to other NASA websites are available.

A brief look at the life of Aristotle followed by a short discussion of his ideas about physics.