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Famous Appliances
Photos and illustrations of antique appliances depicts the history of washing machines and clothes dryers.

The History of Medicine - Photos and Illustrations
Photos and illustrations on the history of medicine

History of Television - Historical Photo and Patents
Photod of historical televisions pioneers and patents

Photos of Historical Radios
Photos of antique radios and radio pioneers.

Photos of Famous Airplanes
Historical aircraft - photos of famous airplanes.

Gallery of Famous Ear Plugs
Many ancient peoples created homemade ear plugs from clay or cotton and wax to reduce noise.

Photos of Pneumatic Tools
Photos of pneumatic tools

Native American Inventions
Photos of Native Americans inventions the totem pole - toboggan - tipi - kayak - birch bark canoe - snow shoes - lacrosse - moccasins

Valentine's Day Cards
Vintage Valentine's Day cards show the history of greeting cards.

Globes and Terrain Model Maps
Miniature representations of the earth in the form of globes and terrain models have a long history

Science Museum - UK
A vivid and cutting edge science museum.

Boston Museum of Science
A 170 years old science museum - permanent and traveling exhibits, the Mugar Omni Theater and the newly renovated Hayden Planetarium.

Chicago Museum of Science and Industry
A great science museum worth visiting that includes a few choice online only exhibitions and educational materials.

Oregon Museum of Science and Industry (OMSI)
Exhibitions, classes, and online activities.

The Museum of Science and Industry In Manchester
Real and virtual exhibition, topics include: locomotives, aircraft, photography, and nuclear power.

IEEE Virtual Museum
Museum honoring the achievements of engineers.

MOSI - Museum of Science and Industry, Tampa, Florida
Science demonstrations and an IMAX theatre provide over 450 exhibitions.

The Corning Museum of Glass
One Museum Way, Corning, New York 14830-2253 U.S.A. - great resource on the subject of glass.

The Food Museum
A strange and unusual science museum about food.

Hellenic Archives of Scientific Instruments
An online database of instruments, from the post-Byzantine world to the Second World War. These archives concern the scientific instruments located in Greece and dated before 1950.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Museum
Sections on ocean engineering, new technology and fun & games (tech test).

Miami Museum of Science
Cybertours of shipwrecks and hurricanes - a fantastic real and virtual science museum. English and Spanish language.

Le Musée Des Arts Et Métiers, Paris
This science museum holds the collections of the Conservatoire national des arts et métiers, founded during the French Revolution. The complete database can be explored on line. French language.

Museon - Science Museum
The popular science museum in The Hague, Netherlands.

Museum of Ancient Inventions
Strange to find out how long ago some things were actually invented - science museum of ancient inventions.

The Museum of Science and Industry
Chicago's Museum of Science and Industry on-line exhibits list. Full of Quicktime movies and interactive exhibits -- from industrial gears to developments in fighting aids.

Museum of Science and Industry In Manchester
One of the world's leading science museums - take a guided tour online or coming up a celebration of the invention of the first computer as-we-know-it.

Oregon Museum of Science and Industry
Many online exhibits: my favorites were the ratcam and the gravitram.

Robert C. Williams American Museum of Papermaking
Take a virtual tour of this science museum, an internationally renowned resource on the history of paper and paper technology.

Scienceworks, Melbourne
The science, industry, and technology section of the Museum of Victoria.

MZTV Virtual Gallery
Comprehensive collection of North American Television Receivers, from the formative, first fifty year period between the 1920s & 1970s. Online gallery available.

The Tech Museum of Innovation
A rotating online exhibit of new technologies, some interactive, excellent interviews with inventors and scientists in the high tech fields.

University of Toronto: Museum of Scientific Instruments
Instruments from a wide range of scientific disciplines in this excellent museum of science and industry.

The Color of The Day
Color psychology must have something to do with it.

NMSI: The National Museum of Science and Industry
London based includes the: Science Museum, London National Museum of Photography, Film and Television, National Railway Museum, Wroughton Science & Society Picture Library.