History of Science and Engineering links

• The Newcomen Society, ``the world's oldest learned society devoted to the history of engineering and technology''.
• History of Mathematics.
• Institute and Museum of History of
  Science in Florence with excellent sections on Pompei and on Renaissance engineering.
• The Scientific Instrument Society.
• Bob Bruen's page has a lot of material on the history of Science including an interview with Sir James Lighthill.
• Railway and Canal Historical Society.
• The Kingstown and Dalkey Atmospheric railway: a subject dear to my heart.
• Marc Shaeffer's homepage with a mass of information on the de Havilland Comet.
• Plane writing, quotes from early pilots' biographies.
• Chariots for Apollo is the NASA history of the Apollo programme.
• On the Frontier, a history of flight research at NASA Dryden from 1946 to 1981. This includes the breaking of the `sound barrier' and the development of the Shuttle and lifting body aircraft.
• Two pages on the Avro Arrow and people who are who are obsessed by it.
• Bletchley Park.