American Museum of Natural History
Beyond Planet Earth
Scholars take a journey through space with 16 eye-catching images. Along the way, learners read captions starting with the moon, then move onto asteroids, Mars, and Jupiter.
American Museum of Natural History
The Amazing Mundo
Rocks and minerals are great on their own, but they also turn into some pretty amazing stuff! An online lesson explains the different types of materials we get from rocks and minerals, including glass, plastic, and coins. An embedded...
Other
Jiskha Homework Help: History of Computers
Jiskha.com offers a general overview of the history of computers and includes a variety of links to specific historical topics.
Computer History Museum
Computer History Museum: Mastering the Game: A History of Computer Chess
Exhibit documenting the important advances in hardware and software that made computer chess a reality.
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Ibm Archives: Valuable Resources on Ibm's History
This site chronicles the history of International Business Machines including exhibits, documents, and multimedia.
Great Idea Finder
The Great Idea Finder: History of Computing
The Great Idea Finder offers a timeline of the history of computers. Each innovation and invention is also click-able for more information.
The Franklin Institute
Franklin Institute: The Case Files: Early History of Computing
Computers are ubiquitous today. Step back in time and meet some of the early inventors of precursors to computers, and of the first computers.
Computer History Museum
Computer History Museum: Timeline of Computer History
This site presents an interactive timeline of computer development from 1939 through 1994. Upon selecting a year, the site presents all of the major computer hardware and software developments that occurred during that year.
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The Digi Barn Computer Museum
This site chronicles the innovations in computer technology including computer hardware, computer software and computer advertising.
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The History of Computing Project
This site provides a the history of computing devices, software, computer companies and biographies.
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Old Computers Rare, Vintage and Obsolete Computers
This site contains a listing of old computer hardware as well as old computer ads.
National Academy of Engineering
Greatest Achievements: Computers
Computers are one of the top 20 engineering innovations of the 20th century. Read the history behind this great invention.
Computer Hope
Computer Hope: Free Computer Help for Everyone
ComputerHope.com offers an archive of free computer-related information, including tutorials, troubleshooting tips, hints and more. Select "Hardware Listing" and "Software Listing" to choose from the extensive directory, or perform a...
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Internet Society: A Brief History of the Internet
A brief history of the internet, written by those who were involved in the development evolution of the Internet. This history revolves around four distinct aspects: the technological evolution, operations and management aspect of a...
A&E Television
History.com: Inventions & Science
Inventions from the telephone to the Model T and the computer have defined human history, and inventors like Leonardo da Vinci, Nikola Tesla, Thomas Edison, Eli Whitney and Alexander Graham Bell have transformed our society.
PBS
Pbs Triumph of the Nerds: A History of the Computer
This companion website for acclaimed PBS series "Triumph of the Nerds" explores the history of the computer, tracing the progression of computing technologies from the abacus to the World Wide Web.
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Computer Knowledge: Computer Knowledge Virus Tutorial
This site contains a tutorial which includes an overview of viruses, types of viruses, the history of viruses, and virus prevention.
Smithsonian Institution
Smithsonian Education: Carbons to Computers: The Typewriter
Created a little less than 150 years ago, the typewriter was the forerunner for the computer. This page offers a detailed history of the birth of the typewriter along with several visual examples.
Other
Computer Music: Guide to Fm Synthesis
Computer Music provides a detailed site of the history, advantages/disadvantages, and uses of FM synthesis. Provides many graphics.
Indiana University
Indiana Univ: Center for Electronic & Computer Music
Contains general information on the facility and programs offered. Also contains a history of electronic music, suggested listening, information about consoles and recording equipment, help with MIDI, csound and Unix programming, etc. A...
Computer History Museum
Computer History Museum
This site includes a variety of exhibits, an artifact repository, special events and publications.
Computer History Museum
Computer History Museum: Model 7094 Console
Brief description of the Model 7094 Console, a transistor computer used in the NASA Apollo space program. The machine is on display at the Computer History Museum. This site provides a glimpse into the development of the information age...
Computer History Museum
Computer History Museum: Selling the Computer Revolution: Marketing
This site presents a collection of marketing brochures from the computer industry. The collection can be viewed by company, decade, computer application or software category.
Computer History Museum
Computer History Museum: Restoring the Dec Pdp 1 Computer Exhibit
Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) introduced the PDP-1 in 1959. It represented a radical shift in the philosophy of computer design. This site presents the history of the PDP-1, the people that worked on the PDP-1 project, how the...