Bright Ideas
From the National Archives for NHD 1999
Science, Technology, Invention in History:
Impact, Influence, Change
Facilities of the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) across the country contain a wealth of primary source documents related to the 1999 NHD theme. This page provides links to descriptions of resources available from 5 of our regional facilities and 4 of our Presidential libraries. These ideas are provided to encourage research in archival documents. For more information about these records, contact the Presidential library or regional facility directly.
Resources from:
- The Herbert Hoover Library in West Branch, IA
- The Harry S. Truman Library in Independence, MO
- The Gerald Ford Library in Ann Arbor, MI
- The Ronald Reagan Library in Simi Valley, CA
- NARA's Southeast Region (Atlanta)
- NARA's Pacific Region (San Francisco)
- NARA's Pacific Alaska Region (Seattle)
- NARA's Northeast Region (New York City)
- NARA's Northeast Region (Boston)
Resources Related to:
Air and Space
- Early Developments in Aviation: Wright Brothers' Test Flights
- Making Early Planes Safe to Fly
- Aviation in the late 1940s
- Flight Testing 1942-1961
- Flight and Aeronautical Research in Outer Space: Records of the George C. Marshall Space Flight Center, 1954-1991
- Human Exploration in Space
- The Americans and Soviets Meet in Space, 1975
- The History of the Space Shuttle
- Redesigning the Space Shuttle Rocket Booster
- Future of Space: Commercialization, Technology Transfer, International Cooperation and the Space Station
- A Nation Mourns: Public Response to the
Challenger Disaster
- Atomic Research: 1930's Efforts to Secure Federal Funding
- Atomic Energy Programs: Records of the Atomic Energy Commission, Oak Ridge Operations Office
- The Atomic Bomb
- Atomic Energy
- Atomic Weapons
- Fallout, Nuclear Testing, The Arms Race, and Atoms for Peace
- Atomic Espionage
- The Building of Nuclear Power Plants Is Always Controversial
- Nuclear Power in the 1980's
- Coal Gasification Projects: The North Alabama Coal
to Methanol Project
- Air Quality Projects: Records of the Environmental Protection Agency, Research Triangle Park, NC
- Watershed and Flood Control Programs: Records of the Cumberland River Project, Wolf Creek Dam
- Environmental Preservation in the 19th Century: North Bloomfield Mining Company Court Cases Related to Hydraulic Mining
- Re-Engineering a Region: Perfecting the San Francisco Bay Area
- The Early Environmental Movement: Records of Initial Government and Citizen Involvement in the 1969 Santa Barbara Oil Spill
- Pacific Northwest Wildlife And Fisheries
- Controlling the Columbia And Other Western Rivers
- Connecting Lake Union with Puget Sound
- Living with and Using the Pacific Northwest Forests
- Efforts Made to Produce Hydroelectric Power by Utilizing the Ocean Tides
- Inventing the Digital Computer
- The 1920s and 1930s: An Era of Technological Breakthrough
- Inventions: Patent Cases
- Automobiles
- Television
- Computers
- Controversies Over Inventions Have Existed
Since Our Nation Was Founded
- The Birth of Weapons of Mass Destruction - the Development of Aerial Bombing
- Development of Radar Helps the Allies Win World War II
- Salvaging Pearl Harbor: the Technology of Operation on Sunken Battleships of the US Fleet
- Project Paperclip
- The Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI)
- Using the Jet Stream: Japanese Balloon Bombs During WWII
- Civil Defense
- Producing and Distributing the Weapons
for Our National Defense
- Energy Policy During the Truman Administration
- National Science Foundation
- Records of The U.S. Science Exhibit at the 1962 Seattle World's Fair
- Research is an Important Component in the Progress of Science and Technology in the Transportation and Communications Fields
- Medical Experiments on Human Subjects: The Tuskegee Syphilis Study
- The Creation of the Office of Science and Technology Policy
- IBM Accused of Monopoly