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American History Museum American History Museum
Collections contain computers, business machines, and communications devices

 
General
Information Age: People, Information & Technology
Chronicles the birth and growth of the electronic information age
Science Service Historical Image Collection
Images of twentieth-century electrical devices
Vote: The Machinery of Democracy Vote: The Machinery of Democracy
Ballots and voting systems have evolved over the years, transforming the ways in which Americans vote
Computers and Networks
Beyond the Limits: Flight Enters the Computer Age
Application of digital computer to flight
Bill Gates
Interview with the founder and head of Microsoft Corporation
Bill Gates: The Imaginable Future Bill Gates: The Imaginable Future
Bill Gates shares his vision of the computer revolution and how new technologies will affect our lives (60min audio)
Charles S. Peskin and David M. McQueen
Interview with heart simulation inventors
Chip Collection
Objects, images and documentation that trace the history of integrated circuits
Computer History Collection
Objects, interviews and reference material
From Carbons to Computers: The Changing American Office
Information technlogy and work
GPS: A New Constellation
The Global Positioning System (GPS) is the most significant recent advance in navigation technology
James Burke: The Knowledge Web
Mr. Burke explains how the Internet reveals connections with each other and with the past (51min audio)
Marc Andreesen
Oral History Interview with the Founder and Chief Operating Officer, Netscape Communications
Monticello Memoirs
A 1996 gathering at Monticello of Pioneers of the Information Age
Slates, Slide Rules and Software: Teaching Math in America Slates, Slide Rules and Software: Teaching Math in America
Objects used to help students master abstract mathematical concepts
Steve Jobs
Founder of Apple and NEXT
Tim Berners-Lee: Weaving the Web
Tim Berners-Lee tells the story of his fabulous and revolutionary creation, the World Wide Web (55min audio)
Printing Technology
In the Beginning: Bibles Before the Year 1000 In the Beginning: Bibles Before the Year 1000
This exploration of the Bible's first thousand years also reveals the parallel development of the book—one of the world's great technological revolutions
Incunabula in the Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology
See pages of over 320 incunabula books or European books printed with movable type during the fifteenth century
Old and Rare Books
Information for collectors
Printing Presses
Printing Presses in the Graphich Arts Collection of the American History Museum (PDF)
Science and the Artists' Book
Online exhibition
Typewriters & Related Office Machines
Selected Sources of information
Telephones and Telegraph
Alexander Graham Bell's Large Box Telephone
One of two telephones used by Alexander Graham Bell in a demonstration between Boston and Salem on November 26, 1876
Morse Telegraph Register
Telegraph register, manufactured in accord with the Morse patent, was installed in 1848 in South Bend, reputedly the first telegraph office in Indiana
Underwater Web: Cabling the Seas
This is an online version of a gallery exhibition on the laying of transatlantic cable and the history of communication
Museums
Air and Space Museum
History, science, and technology of aviation and space flight
American History Museum
History of science, technology, society and culture in America
Postal Museum
Interactive museum of postal history and philately
Programs
Computer and Technology Courses
From the Smithsonian Associates
Research
Information Technology & Society Division
Dedicates its collections and scholarship to information technologies and their role in American history
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