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Black Inventors Online Museum: Benjamin Banneker
Use this site to learn about Benjamin Banneker (1731-1806 CE), an African American that created the first clock built in the United States and was known as our first great Black Inventor.
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Illinois State Museum: Online Resources
This site features links to more than 30 online resources such as Amish Quilt Gallery, Art in the Abstract, and Audio-Video Barn: Oral History of Illinois Agriculture.
The Tech Interactive
Tech Museum of Innovation: Hubble Space Telescope
As an online exhibit at the Tech Museum of Innovation, this site provides an overview of information as well as links and pictures of the Hubble Space Telescope.
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Alaska: Sheldon Jackson Museum
The Sheldon Jackson Museum "s the oldest museum in Alaska and is located in the first concrete building in the state. Its primary interest to educators and students online is focus on an artifact of the Month and the archive of those...
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Alaska: Sheldon Jackson Museum
The Sheldon Jackson Museum "s the oldest museum in Alaska and is located in the first concrete building in the state. Its primary interest to educators and students online is focus on an artifact of the Month and the archive of those...
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Tech Museum of Innovation: Cloning
As part of the online exhibit on Genetics from the Tech Museum of Innovation, this site deals with cloning and specifically cloning research and details on genetics.
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Artizon Museum, Tokyo, Japan
The Artizon's online English-language home provides access to its collection, which is focussed primarily on the art of the impressionists, the post-impressionists, and twentieth-century Western masters. Most examples are accompanied by...
Smithsonian Institution
Smithsonian American Art Museum: Sargent Johnson
The Smithsonian American Art Museum has an image of a sculpture titled "Mask" by Sargent Johnson. Famous for his sculptures based on African examples, Johnson explains his intent in sculpting these in a brief paragraph accompanying the...
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Tech Museum of Innovation: Dna
This is the overview for the online exhibit on DNA. The overview, while providing all of the topics covered at a glance, includes links to Zoom into DNA, DNA is information, and How does DNA affect you?
Natural History Museum
Natural History Museum: Shark Teeth Fossils
The information provided at this site is part of a larger online exhibit centered on fossils and fossil research. The shark tooth is listed as one type of fossil and here it is pictured and described.
Natural History Museum
Natural History Museum: What Is a Meteorite?
As an online exhibit on meteorites, this site answers the question, what is a meteorite? The two main topics covered include where meteorites come from and where meteorites are found.
The Tech Interactive
Tech Museum of Innovation: Earthquakes
As an overview of the online exhibit on earthquakes, this site provides brief information on faults and mentions the San Andreas Fault along with a picture.
Natural History Museum
Natural History Museum: Our Place in the Universe
Part of a larger online exhibit on the moon and space, this site deals with one's place in the universe. The topics covered include the sun and solar system, the galaxy, and the universe.
Science Museum, London
Science Museum: Online Stuff: Atomic Firsts
Read about three famous British atomic physicists, each of whom won a Nobel Prize. J.J. Thompson discovered the electron, Ernest Rutherford successfully split an atom, and George Paget Thomson proved that electrons had wave-like properties.
Science Museum, London
Science Museum Online Stuff: Garrett Morgan
An excellent article about inventor Garrett Morgan including information about his two life-saving inventions: the Safety Hood, an early gas mask, and the traffic light.
Science Museum, London
Science Museum: Online Stuff: Huygens' Clocks
Find out about Christiaan Huygens who built the world's first pendulum clock in 1656. The pendulum clock became the most accurate clock in the world for nearly 300 years.
Science Museum, London
Science Museum Online Stuff: The First Flight
An excellent article about how Orville and Wilbur Wright's interest in flight developed and led to the first airplane flight.
Science Museum, London
Science Museum: Online Stuff: Big Clocks
Learn about the development of early clocks from the 14th through to the 19th centuries.
Museum of Science
Museum of Science and Industry: Online Science: Straw Pipe
Instructions to create a pan pipe made from straws. Also included is music to play songs using the pan pipe and a brief background about sound vibrations.
Science Museum, London
Science Museum: Online Stuff: Babbage
Charles Babbage is regarded as the first computer pioneer and originated the concept of a programmable computer. This biography details his accomplishments as a mathematician, philosopher, inventor and mechanical engineer
Museum of Science
Museum of Science and Industry: Online Science: Make a Circuit Board
Step-by-step illustrated instructions showing how to build a circuit board using everyday materials.
Other
The Noble Sanctuary Online Guide
This site presents a detailed guide to Al-Haram al-Sharif, the Noble Sanctuary, in Jerusalem. Content includes a history of the area, as well as detailed information on various aspects of the sanctuary including the "Dome of the Rock."
Australian Museum
Australian Museum: Mammals
Australian Museum Online has a collection of mammals including bats, platypus, and marsupials. Take a peek. Read about the monkey-faced bat, the mountain brushtail possum, and the tree kangaroo.
Australian Museum
Australian Museum: Dating the Earth
How do scientists know how old the Earth is? What is radioactive dating? Are there other dating methods? Get the answers to these questions and others at this site presented by the Australian Museum Online.