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NASA's History Office
The NASA History Program was first established in 1959 (a year after NASA itself was formed) and has continued to document and preserve the agency's remarkable history.
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The History of Web Beginning at CERN
The History of Web Development Beginning at CERN is a short history explaining how Tim Berners-Lee and others brought together the technologies needed to be able to share documents using Web browsers ...
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Interactive timeline
Timeline covering the history of the pocket calculator and many other innovations from Texas Instrument's History of Innovation section.
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History of Flight
A resource, intended for use by pupils, which provides links to several sites that give information about the history of flight.
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A Brief History of Cosmology
Outline description of the History of Cosmology. Includes biographies of key figures.
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The History of Antimatter
A good site from Cern covering the history of the study of antimatter.
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MacTutor History of Mathematics archive
A very detailed history of Mathematics and Science. The site contains over 1500 biographies of people ranging from Ahmes (1680 - 1610 BC) to Simon Kirwan Donaldson (1957 - )
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Hovercraft History & Hovercraft Museum Website
This site gives more information on the history of hovercraft than the physics involved but still interesting.
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What is Physics?
An article defining physics and summarising its history, from early mechanics to quantum theory.
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History of Physics Exhibits
Online exhibits including Marie Curie and the Discovery of Radioactivity, the History of the Transistor, Albert Einstein, the Discovery of the Electron; Heisenberg, and Sakharov.
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