How has technology affected life in New Hampshire?
 

New Hampshire High Technology Council
Organization that promotes research and technology-based development.

NH.com Technology Information Center

Technology news, events, articles, links and more.

Alexander Graham Bell's Path to the Telephone
Reconstruct the path taken by Alexander Graham Bell as he was inventing the telephone.Includes links to other inventors and ideas.

Around the World in the 1890s: Photographs from the World's Transportation Commission, 1894-1896 
Online collection of photographs from the Library of Congress.

Cars and History

At this site, you can take two tours. First, you can tour the car gallery to see pictures of cars made from 1902 to 1983. Then, take a trip through the early days of car making in Flint, where General Motors Corporation was born.

Flights of Inspiration
A look at the early days of flight.  From the Franklin Museum.  This site includes a teacehr section.

Information Age: People, Information & Technology 
Photographs and infomation  from  Smithsonian's National Museum of American History. The exhibition displays visually and interactively how electrical information technology has changed our society over the last 150 years. 

Inside an American Factory: Films of the Westinghouse Works, 1904
Online film from the Library of Congress.

Inventing Entertainment: the Early Motion Pictures and Sound Recordings of the Edison Companies
Online sound and movies from the Librqary of Congress.

Inventors Museum
Exhibits on African-American inventors, women inventors, colonial inventors, transportation, communication, and space.

Museum of Woodworking Tools
Online exhibit of woodworking tools.

Museum of Science and Industry - Chicago

Online exhibits include: Communications,  Ships Through the Ages,  Animated Industrial Gears, and The Transportation Zone.

Popular Mechanics Time Machine
Travel back in time and look at some inventions and technology from 1900-1960 that were featured in Popular Mechanics.

Railroad Maps, 1828-1900 
Online collection of maps from the Library of Congress.

Smithsonian: Inventors and Innovation
Directory to online resources from the Smithsonian Museums that cover transportation

Smithsonian: Transportation History
Directory to resources from the Smithsonian Museums that cover transportation.

Technology in 1900
Site from the PBS series American Experience where students can learn about transportation, movies, and the telephone.

Touring Turn-of-the-Century America: Photographs from the Detroit Publishing Company, 1880 - 1920 
Collection of photographs from around the county. Lots of photos of transportation and manufacturing.

 

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