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| Ref |
Image |
Source URL |
Organisation |
| 1 |
A Teacher and his Pupil |
http://www.wga.hu/frames-e.html?/html/l/lefebvre/ |
Web Gallery of Art |
| 2 |
Abraham van Heel |
http://www.optica.tn.tudelft.nl/history/history.asp |
Delft University |
| 3 |
Airmail plane |
http://www.newksart.com/bellfield.htm |
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| 4 |
Alexander Graham Bell |
http://www.b-link.co.uk/ckn/inventors/alexander_ graham_bell.htm |
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| 5 |
Amplitude Modulation |
http://www.sfu.ca/sonic-studio/handbook/Amplitude_ Modulation.html |
Cambridge Street Publishing, |
| 6 |
An example of Egyptian hieroglyphs |
http://www10.org/keynoters/speech/susan/Hieroglyphs.html |
University of the West of England, Bristol |
| 7 |
Apple 1 |
http://inventors.about.com/gi/dynamic/offsite.htm? site=http://apple2history.org/history/ah01.html |
About.com. |
| 8 |
Assessment icon |
http://www.yorku.ca/cdc/lsp/ |
Learning Skills Program, York University, Toronto |
| 9 |
Augustin Jean Fresnel |
http://www.chemie.uni-bremen.de/stohrer/biograph/ fresnel.htm |
University of Bremen |
| 10 |
Baird's early television |
http://claweb.cla.unipd.it/home/mcanapero/inventions.htm |
Università degli Studi di Padova - Centro Linguistico di Ateneo |
| 11 |
Beats |
Source URL unknown |
|
| 12 |
Bell in a jar |
http://www.phys.unt.edu/~klittler/demo_room/waves_ demos/3b30_30.htm |
University of North Texas |
| 13 |
Berliner's gramophone |
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/berlhtml/berlgramo.html |
The US Library of Congress |
| 14 |
Bibliography Icon |
Source URL unknown |
|
| 15 |
Black Hole |
Source URL unknown |
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| 16 |
Breaking the Sound Barrier |
http://www.defenselink.mil/specials/images/ sightofsound.jpg |
US Department of Defence |
| 17 |
Butterfly |
http://www.cudos.org.au/ |
CUDOS |
| 18 |
Butterfly Wing |
http://www.cudos.org.au/ |
CUDOS |
| 19 |
CD Detail |
http://www.egr.msu.edu/cmsc/esem/gallery/ |
Michigan State University |
| 20 |
CD Image |
http://radiotools.eigenstart.nl/ |
|
| 21 |
CD Laser |
http://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/electromag/computers /compactdiscs/cd.html |
Florida State University, National High Magnetic Field Laboratory |
| 22 |
CERN |
http://www.phys.au.dk/asacusa/pictures/cern.jpg |
University of Aarhus, Denmark |
| 23 |
Chappes Telegraph |
http://www2.fht-esslingen.de/telehistory/1ststeps.html |
|
| 24 |
Christiaan Huygens |
http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christiaan_Huygens |
Wikipedia |
| 25 |
Compact Disc |
Source URL unknown |
|
| 26 |
Compass |
http://www.carpecaelum.com/wilderness/compass.htm |
|
| 27 |
Compass |
http://econscience.org/scott/cramerweb/c164/img/ penobscot/ |
University of Washington |
| 28 |
CUDOS Logo 1 |
http://www.cudos.org.au/ |
CUDOS |
| 29 |
CUDOS Logo 2 |
http://www.cudos.org.au/ |
CUDOS |
| 30 |
Data logger and PC |
http://www.ecd.com/datalogging/model50.asp |
ECD |
| 31 |
Diagram of a CD |
http://www.eng.warwick.ac.uk/%7Eespbc/courses/ undergrad/lecture_6.htm |
Warwick University |
| 32 |
Donald B. Keck, Robert D. Maurer and Peter C. Schultz |
http://www.telecomweb.com/reports/fon20/past/ |
Access Intelligence, LLC |
| 33 |
Early mobile phone |
http://www.connected-earth.com/Journeys/Frombuttonstobytes/Mobilephones/ Thefirsttruemobiles/thefirsttruemobiles.htm |
BT Archives |
| 34 |
Earth Image |
http://www.stardome.org.nz/gallery/planets.html |
Stardome Observatory, NZ |
| 35 |
Einstein |
http://sprott.physics.wisc.edu/images/ |
University of Wisconsin |
| 36 |
EM Spectrum |
http://www.twcac.org/Tutorials/electromagnetic% 20spectrum.htm |
The Wilderness Center Astronomy Club |
| 37 |
ENIAC |
http://accad.osu.edu/~waynec/history/lesson1.html |
Ohio State University |
| 38 |
Erbium Doped Fibre Amplifier schematic |
http://www.cisco.com/univercd/cc/td/doc/product/mels/ cm1500/dwdm/dwdm_ovr.htm |
Cisco Systems |
| 39 |
Euclid |
http://www.crystalinks.com/euclid.html |
|
| 40 |
Example of early colour TV |
http://www.pakratz.com/ct100main.html |
PakRatz, Corpus Christi, Texas, USA |
| 41 |
First Transistor |
http://accad.osu.edu/~waynec/history/lesson1.html |
Ohio State University |
| 42 |
Fleming valve |
http://www.ee.ucl.ac.uk/Fleming/index.html |
University College London |
| 43 |
Francesco Maria Grimaldi |
http://www.physikpraktika.uni-hd.de/Fourieroptik.html |
University of Heidelberg |
| 44 |
Frequency Modulation |
http://www.radiodesign.com/radwrks.htm |
Radio Design Group |
| 45 |
GPS at Nth Pole |
http://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~dale/scicex99/photos/ E.%20%20North%20Pole/ |
Columbia University |
| 46 |
GPS satellite |
http://www.hartrao.ac.za/geodesy/vlbi.html |
Hartebeesthoek Radio Astronomy Observatory |
| 47 |
GPS System |
http://electronics.howstuffworks.com/gps1.htm |
How Stuff Works |
| 48 |
Guglielmo Marconi |
http://www.marconiconference.org/history.htm |
|
| 49 |
Heinrich Hertz |
http://www.ieee-virtual-museum.org/collection/ people.php?id=1234576&lid=1 |
IEEE |
| 50 |
Hertz's experiment |
http://www.sparkmuseum.com/HERTZ.HTM |
Sparkmuseum |
| 51 |
Homing Pigeon |
http://xo.typepad.com/blog/2004/02/05/ |
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| 52 |
IBM PC |
http://www.tno.nl/instit/fel/museum/computer/en/ comp834E.html |
IBM |
| 53 |
Image produced using Baird's television |
http://www.arts.uwaterloo.ca/FINE/juhde/hills961.htm |
University of Waterloo |
| 54 |
Inverse square law |
http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/forces/isq.html |
Georgia State University |
| 55 |
Inverse square law |
http://www.astro.ncu.edu.tw/contents/faculty/wp_chen/ Ast101/ |
Graduate Institute of Astonomy, NCU |
| 56 |
Ionospheric reflection |
http://ctd.grc.nasa.gov/rleonard/regs1ii.html |
NASA |
| 57 |
Isaac Newton |
http://www.hao.ucar.edu/public/education/sp/images/ newton.html |
US National Center for Atmospheric Research |
| 58 |
J. L. Foucault |
http://www.kip.uni-heidelberg.de/OeffWiss/Pendel-Internetauftritt/pendelbildergalerie.htm |
University of Heidelberg |
| 59 |
Jack Kilby |
http://www.lsi.usp.br/~chip/de_onde_vieram.html |
University of São Paulo |
| 60 |
James Clerk Maxwell |
http://www.cfm.brown.edu/people/marmanis/intropic.html |
|
| 61 |
Jazz Singer |
http://www.artlex.com/ArtLex/p/poster.html |
Artlex |
| 62 |
Johannes Gutenberg and the Printing Press |
http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/ blJohannesGutenberg.htm |
About.com. |
| 63 |
Johannes Kepler |
http://kepler.nasa.gov/johannes/ |
UC Berkeley |
| 64 |
John Ambrose Fleming |
http://www.ee.ucl.ac.uk/Fleming/index.html |
University College London |
| 65 |
John Logie Baird |
http://www.strath.ac.uk/archives/coll/OM11.html |
University of Strathclyde |
| 66 |
Joseph von Fraunhofer |
http://www.dasop.obspm.fr/dasop/sciences/chap1/ physsol.html |
Observatoire de Paris |
| 67 |
Keyboard |
http://www.harmony-central.com/Newp/2003/Vintage-Keys-Keyboard-lg.jpg |
Harmony Central |
| 68 |
Laser diagram |
http://home.achilles.net/~ypvsj/history/ruby.html
|
Site no longer active. |
| 69 |
Laying of Atlantic cable by The Great Eastern |
http://www.atlantic-cable.com/Article/CandW/ |
FTL Design |
| 70 |
Lightbulb - Big Ideas icon |
Source URL unknown |
|
| 71 |
Marconi's wireless telephone c1915 |
http://earlyradiohistory.us/1915mwt.htm |
|
| 72 |
Michelson Interferometer |
http://www.britannica.com/nobel/cap/oelerad004a4.html |
Encyclopædia Britannica |
| 73 |
Modulation |
http://www.vintage-radio.com/repair-restore-information/ transistor_vhf-sets.shtml |
|
| 74 |
Mushroom cloud |
Source URL unknown |
|
| 75 |
Notes Icon |
http://www.yorku.ca/cdc/lsp/ |
Learning Skills Program, York University, Toronto |
| 76 |
Olaf Roemer |
http://www.exn.ca/Stories/2003/01/17/66.asp?t=dp |
Bell Globemedia Inc |
| 77 |
Old radio c. 1935 |
http://www.qsl.net/w3df/hamnost1.html |
|
| 78 |
Optical Fibre |
http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2005/cnn.25/interactive/ gallery.innovations/content.4.html |
CNN |
| 79 |
Optical switch |
http://www.bell-labs.com/news/1999/february/23/1.html |
Lucent Technologies |
| 80 |
Oscilloscope image of sound |
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Waves_on_an_oscillascope.png |
Wikipedia |
| 81 |
Parkes Radio Telescope |
http://pulsar.kicks-ass.net/photos.html |
Haverford College |
| 82 |
Telephone c.1996 |
http://www.discovery.panasonic.co.jp/en/lab/lab07php/ l070102.html |
Matsushita Electric Industrial |
| 83 |
Photo of Edison with cylinder phonograph in 1878 |
http://www.americaslibrary.gov/aa/edison/aa_edison _phonograph_1_e.html |
U. S. Department of Interior, National Park Service, Edison National Historic Site
|
| 84 |
Photonics Crystal |
http://www.cudos.org.au/ |
CUDOS |
| 85 |
Pony Express |
http://www.rivertrailonline.org/downloads001.htm |
South Platte River Trail |
| 86 |
Powerlines |
http://www.pnl.gov/news/back/power.htm |
Pacific North West National Laboratory |
| 87 |
Rope wave |
http://www.physics.auburn.edu/~demo/waves/3b/3b10_10.jpg |
Auburn University |
| 88 |
Samuel Morse Telegraph Receiver |
http://www.ody.org/morsecode/morsecodehistory.htm |
Odyssey Maritime Discovery Center |
| 89 |
Samuel Morse |
http://atfolio.u-strasbg.fr/design/avanttout.html |
University of Strasbourg |
| 90 |
Satellite Dish |
|
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| 91 |
Slinky |
http://www.bigroadstudios.com/di_sketch/images/slinky.jpg |
|
| 92 |
Sound investigation |
http://www.physics.lsa.umich.edu/demolab/demo.asp?id=88 |
University of Michigan |
| 93 |
Sound waves |
http://www.nasaexplores.com/show_912_student_st.php? id=03010380939 |
NASA |
| 94 |
Spectrum & Prism |
http://www.siggraph.org/education/materials/HyperVis/vision/ spectrum.htm |
Georgia State University |
| 95 |
Sputnik |
http://www.let.leidenuniv.nl/history/ivh/chap2.htm |
Leiden University |
| 96 |
Submarine optical cable |
http://www.hegroup.com.tw/english/esubmarine.htm |
Hua-Eng Wire & Cable Company Ltd |
| 97 |
Sumerian cunieform script on a clay tablet |
http://www.athenasweb.com/2000/columns/Column020400.html |
Athena's Web |
| 98 |
Telegraph Key Set |
http://www.ody.org/morsecode/morsecodehistory.htm |
Odyssey Maritime Discovery Center |
| 99 |
Telephone c.1925 |
http://www.ekanji.com/telephone/photos_e.html |
|
| 100 |
Telephone c.1907 |
http://www.phonedoc.com/Telephone_Story/telephone_story.html |
Private Telephone Sales And Service, Inc. |
| 101 |
Telstar |
http://radiolabo.free.fr/radio/ |
|
| 102 |
The Anglo-Australian Telescope at Siding Springs, NSW |
http://www.aao.gov.au/images/captions/aat001.html |
The Anglo-Australian Observatory |
| 103 |
The first integrated circuit |
http://nobelprize.org/physics/educational/integrated_circuit/ history/ |
The Nobel Foundation |
| 104 |
The Internet |
http://derekschreiber.tripod.com/ |
|
| 105 |
The magnetron |
http://histru.bournemouth.ac.uk/Oral_History/Talking_About_ Technology/radar_research/the_magnetron.html |
Bournemouth University |
| 106 |
The Sholes & Glidden typewriter of 1874 |
http://sites.waldonet.net.mt/oshea/jo00002.htm |
|
| 107 |
Thomas Young |
http://www.museum.vic.gov.au/scidiscovery/light/interfere.asp |
Museum of Victoria |
| 108 |
Tiberius Caesar |
http://www.vroma.org/~bmcmanus/augustus.html |
The College of New Rochelle |
| 109 |
Transistor inventors: William Shockley,John Bardeen, and Walter Brattain, 1948. |
http://www.att.com/history/milestone_1947b.html |
ATT |
| 110 |
Tuning fork |
http://www.hometrainingtools.com/catalog/physical-science-physics/sound-wave-motion/p_mc-tf0256.html |
Home Training Tools, Ltd |
| 111 |
Tuning forks for demonstrating beats |
http://www.arborsci.com/Products_Pages/Sound&Waves/ Sound&Waves3.htm |
Arbor Scientific |
| 112 |
University logos |
http://www.cudos.org.au/ |
CUDOS |
| 113 |
UNIVAC |
http://www.cs.cuw.edu/csc/csc175/project/remeza/history.html |
Concordia University Wisconsin |
| 114 |
Water telegraph |
Source URL unknown |
Connected Earth |
| 115 |
Water waves |
http://www.rit.edu/~andpph/photofile-c/splash-water-waves-4559.jpg |
Rochester Institute of Technology |
| 116 |
Willebrord van Roijen Snell |
http://school.ort.spb.ru/library/physics/8class/tema_5/ lesson_4/Snell.htm |
|
| 117 |
X-ray of Hand |
http://www.moneysurgery.co.uk/ms_x07.html |
|
| 118 |
Yin Dynasty Inscriptions |
http://www.chinapost.gov.cn/pic/cywl/9.jpg |
State Postal Bureau of China |
