Engineering and Technology

Technology guide looking at the past, present and future of technology and gadgets.

Describes the development of calculating machines beginning with an adaptation of the Chinese abacus called the soroban. Page includes background of developers and photos of early prototypes.

The history of the invention of the world's first automatic totalizator in 1913 and its subsequent development. Mechanical computing on a commercial scale.

Information from the official Nobel Prize site.

Created a semi-automatic key to help prevent telegrapher paralysis, created by the daily abuse of manipulating a manual Morse telegraph key. Includes biography and the spread of this invention across the United States.

Peer-reviewed journal of the Society for the History of Technology. Subscription information, submission guidelines, and free access to tables of contents and abstracts.

Traces the history of undersea cable communications, from the first telegraph cables used in 1850 to the fiber optic cables used today for the Internet.

Old time telegraphers tell their stories. Taken from early editions of Railroad Man's Magazine.

Biography of this African-American engineer and inventor, who developed and patented several inventions relating to telegraphy.

Short biography with portrait and related links .

Images of highlights from this large collection, family tree, life chronology, and articles about the invention of the telegraph and Morse's efforts in the arts, politics, and photography.