Carbons to Computers
Online Resources
Below are Websites that relate to materials covered in
this unit. Smithsonian sites are in red.
General Office Equipment
- History of Calculating Machines
- http://www.webcom.com/calc/
- Design for Daily Life, Cooper-Hewitt, National
Design Museum
- http://web3.si.edu/organiza/museums/design/dfl/daily/work.htm
- Museum of HP Calculators
- http://www.teleport.com/~dgh/hpmuseum.html
- This Olde Office
- http://www.thisoldeoffice.com/
- Yesterday's Office
- http://www.asaypub.com/rsrnews/yesterday.cfm
Computers
- Center for the History of Computing, Charles Babbage Institute
- http://www.cbi.umn.edu/index.html
- Computer History, Division of Computers, Information
& Society,
- National Museum of American History
- http://www.si.edu/resource/tours/comphist/computer.htm
- The Computer Museum
- http://www.tcm.org/
- Computer Museum of America
- http://www.computer-museum.org/
- Computer Oral History Collection, Lemelson Center
- http://www.si.edu/lemelson/Pioneer.htm
- Computerseum, Commercial Computing Museum
- http://www.sentex.net/~ccmuseum/
- History of the Apple Computer
- http://www.apple-history.com/history.html
- The Machine Room, Old Computer Database/Museum
- http://www.tardis.ed.ac.uk/%7Ealexios/MACHINE-ROOM/index.html
- The Machine that Changed the World
- http://ei.cs.vt.edu/~history/TMTCTW.htm
- Memoir of a Homebrew Computer Club Member
- http://www.bambi.net/bob/homebrew.html
- Microsoft Computer Museum
- http://www.microsoft.com/mscorp/museum/home.asp
- The Trailing Edge, Computing's Last Stand
- http://www.trailingedge.com/
- Obsolete Computer Museum
- http://www.ncsc.dni.us/fun/user/tcc/cmuseum/cmuseum.htm
- Triumph of the Nerds: A History of the Computer, by PBS
- http://www.pbs.org/nerds/timeline/index.html
- University of California, Davis Computer Science Museum
- http://wwwcsif.cs.ucdavis.edu/~csclub/museum/homepage.html
- Virtual Museum of Computing
- http://www.comlab.ox.ac.uk/archive/other/museums/computing.html
Telephones
- Antique Telephone Collectors Association
- http://www.cybercomm.net/~chuck/atca.html
- The Central Office
- http://www.freeyellow.com/members4/thecentraloffice/
- Cyber Telephone Museum
- http://www.cavejunction.com/phones/
- HELL'S BELLS: A Radio History of the Telephone
- http://town.hall.org/Archives/radio/IMS/HellsBells/
- Museum of Independent Telephony
- http://www.cc.ukans.edu/heritage/abilene/telephony.html
- OldPhones.com
- http://www.oldphones.com/
- Telephone History Museum
- http://www.cybercomm.net/~chuck/phones.html
- Telephony History Pages
- http://www.sandman.com/telhist.html
Typewriters
- The Antique Typewriter Down Under Connection
- http://www.precision-dynamics.com.au/typewriters/
- Antique Typewriter Timeline
- http://osfn.org/rcs/
- Classic Typewriter Page
- http://xavier.xu.edu/~polt/typewriters.html
- Collecting old typewriters article
- http://members.aol.com/_ht_a/typebar/collectible/article.htm
- Early Typewriter Collectors Association
- http://home.earthlink.net/~dcrehr/etc.html
- History of Typing
- http://www.mavisbeacon.com/history.html
- Pace O'Shea Antique Typewriter Museum
- http://www.waldonet.net.mt/%2aoshea/
- The Typewriter, article in Popular Mechanics
- http://popularmechanics.com:80/popmech/spec/9608SFACM.html
Other Related Sites
- Information Age Exhibit, National Museum of American
History, Smithsonian Institution
- http://photo2.si.edu/infoage.html
- Notable Women of Computing & Mathematics
- http://www.cs.yale.edu/HTML/YALE/CS/HyPlans/tap/past-women.html
- Women and Computer Science
- http://www.ai.mit.edu/people/ellens/gender.html
- Frederick Taylor, Early Century Management Consultant
- http://www.cftech.com/BrainBank/TRIVIABITS/FredWTaylor.html
- Frederick Taylor Collection, Stevens Institute of Technology
- http://www.lib.stevens-tech.edu/collections/taylor/
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