Instruments Web Directory.


Home \| About us \| Advertise \| Contact Us

Science > Astronomy > History > Instruments

Web Directory

Google Adwords

Google Adwords allows businesses to advertise on any number of sites, including Expo Central, regardless of the size of their budget. Ad campaigns can be set up to target based on keywords, geographical location of the visitor, and/or individual web sites. They handle the most common sizes of ads and allow text, image or video.

Firefox with Google Toolbar

Mozilla Firefox is a web browser with pop-up blocking, tabbed browsing, and privacy and security features. Integration of the Google Toolbar into the Firefox download offers users even more features: Google search, SpellCheck, and Autofill.

Google Pack Software

Get the power of Google on your desktop PCs! Google Pack provides a single installer for many essential PC applications from Google and other trusted partners. These applications improve your browsing with increased speed and security, provide better searching capability for the web and for your own PC and enable you to collect and organize your personal data, including photos.

Home > Science > Astronomy > History > Instruments
Directory of Web Resources @ Expo Central : Instruments

Science > Astronomy > History > Instruments : Categories

Science > Astronomy > History > Instruments : Web Resources

Science > Astronomy > History > Instruments : Web-Sites

1. Adler Planetarium - Historical Collections [ Report dead link ]

Collection of instruments, past exhibitions, history department information.

http://www.adlerplanetarium.org/history/

2. Antique Telescopes [ Report dead link ]

An overview with photographs of many lesser known telescopes typical of their time.

http://www.antiquetelescopes.org/

3. Caltech Astronomy - History [ Report dead link ]

The telescopes at Mt. Wilson and Palomar.

http://www.astro.caltech.edu/observatories/palomar/history/

4. Churches as Scientific Instruments [ Report dead link ]

Solar observatories built into 17th and 18th century cathedrals.

http://cis.alma.unibo.it/NewsLetter/090496Nw/Heilbron.htm

5. Important Astronomers, their Instruments and Discoveries [ Report dead link ]

From the merket to the reflecting telescope in three pages.

http://seds.lpl.arizona.edu/billa/psc/hist1.html

6. Sir Martin Ryle - Nobel Lecture [ Report dead link ]

Radio telescopes of large resolving power.

http://nobelprize.org/physics/laureates/1974/ryle-lecture.html

7. Smithsonian Magazine - Stars in Their Eyes [ Report dead link ]

The exquisite telescopes crafted by Alvan Clark and his sons helped make the last half of the 19th century a golden age of astronomy.

http://www.smithsonianmagazine.com/issues/2001/october/refractors.php

8. The 28-inch Photo-visual Refractor [ Report dead link ]

Exhibition from the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, that explains the history of this telescope via words and archive photographs.

http://www.nmm.ac.uk/server.php?request=setTemplate:singlecontent&contentTypeA=conWebDoc&contentId=354&navId=005001004

9. The Astrolabe [ Report dead link ]

Ancient astronomical computer.

http://astrolabes.org/astrolab.htm

10. Virtual Museum of Measuring Engines [ Report dead link ]

The history of modern astronomical measurement, emphasis on instruments.

http://www.astro.virginia.edu/~afs5z/engines.html

Help build the largest human-edited directory on the web.

Submit a Site - Open Directory Project - Become an Editor

Science > Astronomy > History > Instruments : Web Resources

Science

Astronomy

History

[ Home | About us | Advertise | Contact Us ]