As an overview of the online exhibit on earthquakes, this site provides brief information on faults and mentions the San Andreas Fault along with a picture.

Part of a larger online exhibit on the moon and space, this site deals with one's place in the universe. The topics covered include the sun and solar system, the galaxy, and the universe.

Read about three famous British atomic physicists, each of whom won a Nobel Prize. J.J. Thompson discovered the electron, Ernest Rutherford successfully split an atom, and George Paget Thomson proved that electrons had wave-like properties.

An excellent article about inventor Garrett Morgan including information about his two life-saving inventions: the Safety Hood, an early gas mask, and the traffic light.

Find out about Christiaan Huygens who built the world's first pendulum clock in 1656. The pendulum clock became the most accurate clock in the world for nearly 300 years.

An excellent article about how Orville and Wilbur Wright's interest in flight developed and led to the first airplane flight.

Learn about the development of early clocks from the 14th through to the 19th centuries.

Instructions to create a pan pipe made from straws. Also included is music to play songs using the pan pipe and a brief background about sound vibrations.

Charles Babbage is regarded as the first computer pioneer and originated the concept of a programmable computer. This biography details his accomplishments as a mathematician, philosopher, inventor and mechanical engineer

Step-by-step illustrated instructions showing how to build a circuit board using everyday materials.

This site presents a detailed guide to Al-Haram al-Sharif, the Noble Sanctuary, in Jerusalem. Content includes a history of the area, as well as detailed information on various aspects of the sanctuary including the "Dome of the Rock."

Australian Museum Online has a collection of mammals including bats, platypus, and marsupials. Take a peek. Read about the monkey-faced bat, the mountain brushtail possum, and the tree kangaroo.

How do scientists know how old the Earth is? What is radioactive dating? Are there other dating methods? Get the answers to these questions and others at this site presented by the Australian Museum Online.

This online exhibit about is about the experience of being a young Jew in Berlin in the early 1940's. Includes real life stories and images of the personal belongings of real people.

This online exhibit tells the story of these people using the artifacts they left behind.

The Stedelijk Museum is closed until 2008, but its temporary online home permits visitors to sample parts its contemporary collection and exhibitions.

An online site for a museum that is preserving artifacts from the American Revolution.

The University of Michigan Museum of Art is considered one of the finest university art museums in the country, with more than 17,000 works of art and an ambitious schedule of special exhibitions and programs. UMMA?s extraordinary...

The Abraham Lincoln Presidential Museum and Library is an excellent repository of historical materials; however, the online offerings regarding Lincoln may change periodically. The resource does offer an interactive timeline of Lincoln's...

[Free Registration/Login Required] Looking for the Phantom Lady or Sherlock Holmes comic? This site is dedicated to making Golden Age Comic books available online. Users can make a free account to have access to copyright free comic...

An online exhibition that provides a timeline of the Paleolithic, Mesolithic, Neolithic, Bronze and Iron ages in Europe. Click on the tools for further explanations of the cultures during that era. Explanations are short, but great...

The companion website for an exhibit housed at the Tech Museum of Innovation, in San Jose. The exhibit explores and explains how our eyes see color, the words we use to describe colors, and how the eye works.

This site provides extensive information including body diagrams of different types of leeches.

A popular plant experiment where food coloring is added to the water that flowers sit in, to see how this affects the color of the flowers. It demonstrates how water travels through the xylem of a flower stem.