An exploration of the evolution of Auschwitz and its three camps. A detailed look at archival maps, blueprints and photos of Auschwitz. A guide to Nazi concentration camps and ghettos. Archival maps, ...

The first transistor was about half an inch high. That's mammoth by today's standards, when 7 million transistors can fit on a single computer chip. It was nevertheless an amazing piece of technology.

DANIEL PATRICK MOYNIHAN United States Senator (D-NY) QUESTION: I wonder if we could begin with a short autobiography from you? Let's take it from birth to the end of your career in the U.S. Navy. SEN.

Photo: The identical Herrick twins were the first participants in a successful kidney transplant. The idea of transplanting organs is not new. It can be found in myths of the ancient Greeks and was ...

Orville and Wilbur Wright were inspired by Otto Lilienthal, a German glider pioneer. Though he crashed to his death in 1896, the Wrights were obsessed the technical problems involved in flight. They ...

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In a sense this is a fragile work. In its verbal silence, rigorous formalism and focus on the present, it ultimately must engage the memory of the viewer to endow it with meaning. – Beryl Korot Dachau ...

Michael Riordan, along with Lillian Hoddeson, is the co-author of Crystal Fire: The Birth of the Information Age, which chronicles the history of the transistor. Calling on his background in both ...

This Teacher's Guide provides lessons, activities and resources that will help teachers integrate social science data, concepts of measurement, social consequences of measurement, and the history of ...

brings two decades of producing compelling science materials for the public to this project. She is also an Executive Producer of the documentary Transistorized! Over the past three years she produced ...

BEN WATTENBERG: Okay, cue the babies -- smile, girls. Today we take it for granted that kids like these will live to see their first birthday. But back in 1900, more than one of every six American ...

Ernest Rutherford's family emigrated from England to New Zealand before he was born. They ran a successful farm near Nelson, where Ernest was born. One of 12 children, he liked the hard work and open ...