Many groups are experimenting with the Internet to see if this new medium can augment more traditional methods of research. Below are sites that explore the utility of the Internet for conducting historical research. They have been sponsored by grants from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.

National Museum of American History:
Lighting The Way (electric lighting since 1970) --
[americanhistory.si.edu/lightproject]

Collecting the History of Fuel Cells --
[americanhistory.si.edu/fuelcells]

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American Geophysical Union:
Solar Variability and Climate Change --
[earth.agu.org/history/SV.shtml]

American Institute of Physics:
History of Greenland Ice Drilling --
[www.aip.org/history/sloan/icedrill]

American Meteorological Society:
History of the GARP Atlantic Tropical Experiment --
[www.ametsoc.org/ams/sloan/gate/index.html]

History of the Clean Air Act --
[www.ametsoc.org/AMS/sloan/cleanair/index.html]

American Society for Microbiology:
Plasmids: Histories of a Concept --
[histmicro.yale.edu/]

American Society of Virology:
Viruses: From Structure to Biology --
[medicine.wustl.edu/~virology/]

George Mason University:
The Blackout History Project (New York 1965 & 77 Blackouts) -- [www.blackout.gmu.edu]

Massachusetts Institute of Technology:
The Big Dig (Boston Central Artery Tunnel History) -- [libraries.mit.edu/rotch/artery]

Sloan Foundation:
Recent History of Science and Engineering on the Web --  [www.sloan.org/programs/scitech_historysci.shtml]

Stanford University:
MouseSite (work of Douglas Engelbart, computer mouse inventor) -- [sloan.stanford.edu/MouseSite]

University of California, Berkeley:
Making PCR (Polymerase Chain Reaction development) -- [sunsite.berkeley.edu/PCR]

University of California, Los Angeles:
Electric Vehicle History Online --
[sloan.stanford.edu/EVonline]

Website of Recent Neuroscience (WREN) --
[personal.anderson.ucla.edu/howard.kim/kruger/]

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