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History of Science, Mathematics & Technology: Primary Sources: Technology
What is a primary source?
Primary sources include documents or artifacts created by a witness to or participant in an event. They can be firsthand testimony or evidence created during the time period that you are studying.
Primary sources may include diaries, letters, interviews, oral histories, photographs, newspaper articles, government documents, poems, novels, plays, and music. The collection and analysis of primary sources is central to historical research.
Primary Sources: Technology
- The Wilbur and Orville Wright PapersFind digital images, documents the lives of Wilbur and Orville Wright and highlights their pioneering work which led to the world's first powered, controlled and sustained flight
- Alexander Graham Bell Family PapersContains correspondence, scientific notebooks, journals, blueprints, articles, and photographs documenting Bell's invention of the telephone and other scientific research
- Inventing Entertainment: The Early Motion Pictures and Sound Recordings of the Edison CompaniesThis site features 341 motion pictures, 81 disc sound recordings, and other related materials, such as photographs and original magazine articles
- NASA History DivisionIncluded are PDFs of Press Kits, Press Releases, Mission Transcripts, and Administrators' Speeches.
- Samuel F.B. Morse PapersSee documents and images from Morse's invention of the electromagnetic telegraph, his participation in the development of telegraph systems in the United States and abroad, and more.
- Taking the Wheel: Manufacturers' Catalogs from the First Decade of American AutomobilesThis digital presentation offers a sampling from the year 1909 of the Science, Industry and Business Library's (SIBL) extensive collection of manufacturers' catalogs and price lists.
- TRAIL: Technical Report Archive & Image LibrarySearch U.S. government technical reports issued primarily prior to 1975 and digitized by the TRAIL Working Groups
- Department of Transportation DocumentsA digitized collection of manuals, regulations, conferences, reports, and other resources from the United States Department of Transportation Library.
