Links to other sites

Scientific

• Virtual Museum of Surveying
• WWWVL History of Science, Technology and Medicine - Overview The official World Wide Web Virtual Library site devoted to this subject.
• The Microscopical Society of Southern California
• The Antique Telescope Society Home Page
• The Light Microscopy Forum.
• Scientific and Medical Antiques Collecting System
• The Smithsonian
• National Museum of American History
• Scientific Instrument Forum hosted by the Gemmary.
• Society for the History of Technology
• Calculating Machines
• The Slide Rule Trading Post

Medical

• Medical Antiques
• Museum of Questionable Medical Devices
• Medical Antiques Online Much info on the development of the stethoscope.
• Nat Library of Medicine, History of Medicine
• History of Medicine - Galaxy
• Quackery - Toledo Library
• The Bakken Museum
• History of Pharmacy
• Roentgen Centennial
• X-Ray Century

Communications

• Telegraph key references
• American Telegraph Makers
• Early telephones
• Antique Radio Classified

Tools of all trades

• Early American Industries
• Mid-West Tool Collectors Association
• Museum of Woodworking Tools
• Zimmer's Antique Tool Page
• The Electronic Neanderthal Woodworker
• Soc for Industrial Archeology
• Henry Ford Museum
• Colonial Williamsburg
• Mercer Museum
• Old Sturbridge Village
• Canterbury Shaker Village

Household and Office Collectibles

• The Qwerty Connection - typewriters
• Antique Typewriter Collecting
• Antique Sewing Machines
• Carter Bays Sewing Machines
• Vacuum Cleaner Museum

Photography

• Graflex cameras, A large site with much info for Graflex collectors.

Agriculture

• Antique Mechanic's Page - UC Davis
• The Lawn Mower Museum

Transportation

• Owls Head Transportation Museum Sponsors a large and important auction every two or three years

Publications

• Maine Antique Digest A great general antiques monthly that is also fun to read. They had a good article on the Maryland Microscopical Show recently, and, a few scientific instruments are usually found in the display ads.