History of Science and Technology
Support for research in the history of science and technology.
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Background Information
Before you dive into primary and secondary sources, make sure you have a little bit more background on your topic so you know what you're looking for. Look for general information about your topic, and important people, places and events connected to it. Start with the background resources below.
Cambridge Histories of ScienceLook through the Cambridge Histories online to get an overview of your research topic. You can browse the list of topics, or search for something specific.- Oxford Handbooks Online: HistoryMany volumes available to search, rangeing chronologically from medieval times to the Cold War; regionally from the Americas to China; topically through race, religions, and gender to food; methodologically from oral history to environmental.
- More books in the libraryThis search in the library catalog has online materials related to the history of machinery and technology. After looking at the online materials, remove the filter for online to see what we have on the shelves.
Primary Sources
- Making of the Modern World: The Goldsmiths'-Kress Library of Economic Literature 1450-1850This database provides digital facsimile images on every page of 61,000 works of literature on economic and business published from 1450 through 1850. Full-text searching on more than 12 million pages provides researchers unparalleled access to this vast collection of material on commerce, finance, social conditions, politics, trade and transport.
- Gottinger Digitalisierungs-ZentrumExtensive digital library of historic manuscripts, with a special section on the history of the humanities and the sciences. Search for materials related to your topic.
- History VaultAccess letters, papers, photographs, scrapbooks, financial records, diaries, and much more from a single interface.
- Nineteenth Century Collections OnlineContent documents the long nineteenth century and includes monographs, newspapers, pamphlets, manuscripts, ephemera, maps, statistics, and more.
Secondary Sources
- JSTORSearch this archive of full-text scholarly journals spanning a number of disciplines.