The Library of Congress Manuscript Division, Library of Congress Search by Keyword | Browse by Series | Subject | Name The online version of the Alexander Graham Bell Family Papers at the Library of Congress comprises a selection of 4,695 items (totaling about 51,500 images). This presentation contains correspondence, scientific notebooks, journals, blueprints, articles, and photographs documenting Bell's invention of the telephone and his involvement in the first telephone co ...

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ABC Home Current Status The Team Public Showings In The Media Court Trial Biographies Photos/Diagrams May '98 Demo Photos Video References Ames Lab, DOE, ISU, Ames, Iowa || Berry biography || Another Atanasoff biography || John Vincent Atanasoff (1903 - 1995) JOHN VINCENT ATANASOFF was born on 4 October 1903 a few miles west of Hamilton, New York. His father was a Bulgarian immigrant named Ivan Atanasov. His last name was changed to Atanasoff by immigration officia ...

Braille Louis Braille's life is captured in a new biography entitled Louis Braille: A Touch of Genius. Louis Braille In the French town of Coupvray, near Paris, there stands a little stone house that, in 1809, was the home of the local harness maker, Simon René Braille, his wife Monique, and their growing family. On January 4th of that year, the house grew a little livelier with the birth of their fourth child, Louis. Louis was a bright and inquisitive child, characteristics that were to pla ...

Edwin H. Armstrong 1890 - 1954 Radio's premier inventor, Edwin H. Armstrong was responsible for the Regenerative Circuit (1912), the Superheterodyne Circuit (1918), the Superregenerative Circuit (1922) and the complete FM System (1933). His inventions and developments form the backbone of Radio Communications as we know it. (View a biography of Edwin H. Armstrong) The purpose of this site is basic and straightforward - to present, for anyone's enjoyment and study, a collection of inte ...

Albert Einstein 1879 - 1955 Click the picture above to see sixteen larger pictures Einstein contributed more than any other scientist to the modern vision of physical reality. His special and general theories of relativity are still regarded as the most satisfactory model of the large-scale universe that we have. Full MacTutor biography [Version for printing] List of References (365 books/articles) Some Quotations (54) A Poster of Albert Einstein Mathematicians born ...

Text version Download this Einstein Web site in PDF format (3.5 MB) Sign up to find out when we put more exhibits online Einstein en Español Albert Einstein: Read about Einstein's astounding theory of relativity and his discovery of the quantum, his thoughtful philosophy, and his rise above a turbulent life including marriages and exile. This Einstein exhibit contains many pictures, cartoons, voice clips, and essays on Einstein's work on special relativity, Brownian motion, and more. Brought to you by The Center for History of Physics Copyright © 1996 - American Institute of Physics Site created Nov. 1996, revised November 2004

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Take a quick online survey and help the Museum of Science improve this website! Who was Leonardo da Vinci? He had a keen eye and quick mind that led him to make important scientific discoveries, yet he never published his ideas. He was a gentle vegetarian who loved animals and despised war, yet he worked as a military engineer to invent advanced and deadly weapons. He was one of the greatest painters of the Italian Renaissance, yet he left only a handful of completed paintings. ...

Meet Melvil Who put the Dewey in the Dewey Decimal System? Home Melvil Dewey lived an extraordinary life! He was born in Adams Center, New York, on December 10, 1851, and died on December 26, 1931. He was a librarian who invented a decimal classification system for library books called the Dewey Decimal System. In 1876, he founded the American Library Associ ...

[ Features Index | Metro Santa Cruz | MetroActive Central | Archives ] The Bottom Line Christine Donovan Bum Deal: The invention of the disposable diaper freed moms from hours of drudgery. Marion Donovan Inventor 1917-1998 IT'S ONE OF LIFE'S little mysteries that inventions like the Salk vaccine or Eli Whitney's cotton gin get all the attention in history books, while the important ones--say, java jackets and retractable lipstick--don't even rate a footnote in those weighty tomes. Tr ...

Melvil Dewey, 1851 - 1931 Melvil Dewey was born in New York on the tenth of December, 1851. He went to school and eventually became a librarian at Amherst College. In 1876, he published an important book, one that would totally change the way books were arranged in libraries. Through this book Dewey established the Dewey Decimal System. Dewey did other things to affect the ways libraries operate today. He helped found the American Library Association in 1876 and established the first profe ...

Thomas Alva Edison Researcher: Rachel Sahlman In his lifetime, Thomas Alva Edison profoundly affected the technology of modern society. The American inventor was born February 11, 1847 in Milan, Ohio. He was the seventh and last child of Samuel Edison, Jr. and Nancy Elliot Edison. When Edison was 7 years old, his family moved to Port Huron, Michigan, after his father hired on as a carpenter at the Fort Gratiot military post. Edison entered school in Port Huron, but his teachers con ...

Profile on Inventors Image Converter For Detecting Electromagnetic Radiation Especially in Short Wave Lengths Dr. George Carruthers was born in Cincinnati, Ohio on October 1, 1939. He received his B.S. in Illinois in 1961, his Masters in 1962 and his Ph.D. (1964) in Aeronautics and Astronautical Engineering. Dr. Carruthers epitomizes the hardworking, quiet and dignified professional. His research projects have materially contributed to the advancement of America's space ...

Welcome to The Babbage Pages Babbage, Charles (1791-1871) Reformer militant, mathematician, computer pioneer, economist, mechanical engineer, code-breaker, inventor, society figure, etc. etc. These pages give an introduction to Babbage`s life and work, and current research on Babbage. Biography Family Devonshire Background Friends Ada Lovelace Calculating Engines Political Economy Publications by Babbage Papers on Babbage Babbage at the Science Museum Research sourc ...

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