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• Whole Cloth: Discovering Science and Technology Through American Textile History

  This site, developed by the Society for the History of Technology, teaches the history of the production and consumption of textiles. Three completed "modular units," Early Industrialization, True Colors, and Synthetic Fibers, link the history of textile technology to issues of race and gender in American history.

• Railroad Maps: 1828-1900

  This Library of Congress American Memory site features images and descriptions of 623 railroad maps selected from more than 3000 regional, state, and county maps in the Library's Geography and Map Division.

• Inside an American Factory: Films of the Westinghouse Works, 1904

  This Library of Congress American Memory site contains 21 actuality films showing various views of Westinghouse companies. Exterior and interior shots of the factories are shown along with scenes of male and female workers performing their duties at the plants.

• Henry Ford Museum and Greenfield Village

  This site is dedicated to exhibiting the treasures of the Ford Museum and Greenfield Village that include a replica of Thomas Edison's Menlo Park complex. The site is rich in details and images relating to the history of invention in America.

• Atomic Archive

  This very deep site is a digitial archive in the best sense. It includes primary documents on the history of nuclear weaponry, photographs, maps and audio-visual clips.

• The Apollo Guidance Computer

  The Apollo Guidance Computer (AGC) provided reliable real-time control for the Apollo spacecraft that carried US astronauts to the moon, 1969-1972. It was designed by the MIT Instrumentation Laboratory (now The Charles Stark Draper Laboratory, Inc.) and manufactured by Raytheon Corporation.

• History of the Electric Guitar

  From an exhibit produced by the Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation, at the National Museum of American History, November 1996 through October 1997. "From Frying Pan to Flying V" was featured as part of "Electrified, Amplified, and Deified: The Electric Guitar, Its Makers, and Its Players," the second in the Center's annual series on New Perspectives on Invention and Innovation.

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