PBS
Nova: Secrets, Lies, and Atomic Spies
The companion site to the show by the same title. Interesting site allows the reader to decipher a coded message. Information on Venona Intercepts and interviews with children of famous spies.
Historica Canada
History by the Minute: Sir Sanford Fleming
Part of a series, this video clip profiles Sanford Fleming, an extraordinary innovator, who created the time concept of standard time. He also surveyed the first rail route across Canada and designed our first postage stamp. Links to...
National High Magnetic Field Laboratory
Magnet Academy: John Ambrose Fleming
John Ambrose Fleming was an electronics pioneer who invented the oscillation valve, or vacuum tube, a device that would help make radios, televisions, telephones and even early electronic computers possible. A brilliant innovator,...
National Health Museum
Access Excellence: Discovery, Chance, and the Scientific Method
An interesting article that describes the relationship between chance and controlled scientific research. Several famous scientific discoveries are discussed.
Smithsonian Institution
Smithsonian American Art Museum: Marshall B. Fleming
As part of the Smithsonian Art Museum's database of artists, Marshall B. Fleming is described here along with information on his contributions to art through carving, and specifically his famous carving of the Kennedy Caisson.
Curated OER
Bacteriologist, Alexander Fleming
Time Magazine offers a detailed account of Alexander Fleming's work in the field of bacteriology with penicillin. View a timeline of Fleming's most noted accomplishments and answer the "pop" quiz question to see if you really the...
Curated OER
Sir Sandford Fleming's Notebook, 1863
This is an original excerpt from Sir Sanford Fleming's notebook that he kept while he was Chief Surveyor for the Quebec-Halifax Railway. It is interesting to see how he liked to illustrate his writing.