History Archive:
1870 Census Maps
10 Mar 201054 maps and charts. The level of detail and sophistication is pretty damn impressive for the period. (again from Radical Cartography — can you tell I’m digging through that site? Love it.)
137 Years of Popular Science
9 Mar 2010Popular Science magazine has partnered with Google to make available it’s entire archive. Keyword searches bring up an entire month/issue with your search result highlighted. It looks they have OCR’d every page, making for some cool search results. (via)
For example, a search of “map” brought up this map of US science sites from 1967:
and this first air-map of the north pole from 1931:
“Chart” brings up radiological diagrams from 1950 (among many many others)
History of the World in Objects
2 Mar 2010From the BBC. Use the slider on the right to scroll through history, then click on an object to see it’s significance; tons of filters on the left. (via)
NYC 1782 vs Today
17 Feb 2010Use the blue slider in the lower right to fade between a 1782 map that shows old streams and hills, and a modern map.
Major Trends and Events 1750-2100
In: Culture Global Economy History Politics Reference Science
8 Jan 2010Would make a good poster. Some of the predictions are questionable, of course. (via)
From the Neolithic till today, filter by country, zoom in to specific historic events, or take a journey based on certain topics. Very well done, from the BBC.
Crude Oil Prices 1861-2008
18 Jun 2009Some chart-junk here (raining data points? really?).
Infectious greed has another version, with historical annotations and some interesting comments:
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