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Reference Tool: Your Handy Guide to U.S. Patent Numbers

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This is a simple tally of  American patent numbers and the years in which they appeared.  I've found this list handy from time to time and thought to repost it here.  It is a lot easier to have this series posted here than have to wrangle he data out of the occasionally labyrinthine U.S.P.T.O.:

Reference Tool: Alphabetical Listing of U.S. Civil War Battles

SInce we're in the beginning of the 150th anniversary of the war I thought to put together a handy list of battles--I think 've seen one elsewhere but really I cannot recall the locatiion, so I cobbled together a fast-and-dirty alpha list to have on hand. 

Alphabetical Listing of Major Civil War Campaigns, by Battle

Allatoona Georgia October 5, 1864
Amelia Springs Virginia April 5, 1865
Antietam / Sharpsburg Maryland September 16-18, 1862
Appomattox Station Virginia April 8, 1865
Appomattox Court House Virginia April 9, 1865
Aquia Creek Virginia May 29-June 1, 1861
Arkansas Post / Fort Hindman Arkansas January 9-11, 1863
Atlanta Georgia July 22, 1864
Athens Alabama January 26, 1864
Averasborough / Smiths Ferry / Black River North Carolina March 16, 1865
Auburn / Catlett's Station / St. Stephen's Church Virginia October 13, 1863
Auburn / Coffee Hill Virginia October 14, 1863

Index: Computer Chronology, 50-Year Micro List, 1938-1988

This is a simple and basic outline for a chronological list of computers constructed from 1938 (with the Konrad Zuse "Z1" in Germany) through the Alliant series in 1988. 

Key:  listings are by Maker/Name of the computer/Country of origin/Year

Example:   Zuse     Z1     Germany     1938  (So, the ZI computer made in 1938 by Konrad Zuse, in Germany)

Here's a terrific piece of work called  "The Computer Tree", from Electronic Computers Within the Ordnance Corps , by Karl Kempf. "U.S. Army Diagram", the source of this information coming from the U.S. Army, here.

This image is expandable.

I've found a supplement for computer tree above. .  The new one is interesting and has its differences from its predecessor, and divides its generations of computers in terms of logic technology. It is found in a 1960 NSF pamphlet called "The Family Tree of Computer Design", a Brief Summary of Computer Development, and I found its reference in a good book by I.B. Cohen, Howard Aiken, Portrait of a Computer Pioneer, published by MIT and available here. 

[Image source: Microsoft.]

 

 

Index of the Scientific Papers of Erwin Schroedinger, 1914-1955

1914 ANNALEN DER PHYSIK 44 (14): 916-934
Schrodinger E
The dynamics of elastically coupled point systems

1914 PHYSIKALISCHE ZEITSCHRIFT 15: 79-86
Schrodinger E
Acidity which produces interference patterns with x-rays.

Index of the Scientific Papers of Niels Bohr, 1909-1955

Niels Bohr Works, 1909-1955.  This list is assembled from the data from the HistCite of the Garfield Library of the University of Pennsylvania. 

1909 PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF LONDON SERIES A-CONTAINING PAPERS OF A MATHEMATICAL OR PHYSICAL CHARACTER 209: 281-317
Bohr N
Determination of the surface-tension of water by the method of jet vibration

1910 PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF LONDON SERIES A-CONTAINING PAPERS OF A MATHEMATICAL AND PHYSICAL CHARACTER 89 (572): 395-403
Bohr N
On the determination of the tension of a recently formed water-surface.

Index of the Scientific Papers of Ernest Rutherford, 1900-1942

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1900 PHYSIKALISCHE ZEITSCHRIFT 1: 347-348
Rutherford, E
Concerning radioactive thorium compounds

1900 PHYSIKALISCHE ZEITSCHRIFT 2: 53-55
Rutherford E; Kling RKM
The energy of the becquerel-and x-rays and the necessary energy for the production of ions in gases.

Index of the Scientific Papers of Max Planck (1900-1949)

Scientific Papers of Max Planck, 1900-1949

Arranged from the tremendous data haul at the HiteCite index at the University of Pennsylvania

1900 ANNALEN DER PHYSIK 1 (1): 69-122
Planck M    Irreversible radiation procedures

1900 ANNALEN DER PHYSIK 1 (3): 621-U11

Planck M    Comments on an essay on thermodynamics by Mr K Wesendonck

50-Year Single-Line Timeline of Physics, 1950-2000

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PHYSICS Timeline, 1950-2000 (adapted from the weburbia.com site)

1950: Paul Dirac, first suggestion of string theory
1950: Seaborg, Ghiorso, Street, Thompson, element 98, californium
1950: Jan Oort, theory of comet origins
1950: Bjorklund, Crandall, Moyer, York, Neutral pion
1950: Albert Einstein, Einstein's failed unified theory
1951: Smith and Baade, identify a radio galaxy
1951: Petermann, Stueckelberg, renormalisation group
1952: Courant, Livingston, Snyder, Strong focusing principle for particle accelerators

Quantum Mechanics: Chronological and Not-Critical Bibliography

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Chronological Bibliography of Quantum Mechanics

This is a handy and interesting 329-entry timeline of QM placed in chronological order from the article noted below.  I guess it would be easy to start the list with Planck if you wanted to give it a firm footing somewhere, though the history of quantum mechanics goes into development stages long before the 1900 Planck paper.  Be that as it may, this is just a quick exercise, and if an idea was formed or a lost memory found via a quick look at this list, then it is good enough for me.

References used in "From the origin of quantum concepts to the establishment of quantum mechanics", by M A El'yashevich, in Soviet Physics USPEKHI, 1977, 20 (8), 656–682. SOURCE:  http://www.turpion.org/php/reference.phtml?journal_id=pu&paper_id=5456&volume=20&issue=8&type=xrf

REFERENCES [1] M. Planck, Über irreversible Strahlungsvorgänge, Ann. d. Phys., 1 (1900), 60–122, M. Planck, Trudy 191–233)