From its inception in 1971, ASME's History and Heritage program has looked toward groups, such as the Smithsonian Institution, the Historic American Engineering Record, and Linda Hall Library, as valued resources. Links to these and other organizations are provided to help bring the engineer closer to the history community. For links to landmark-related web sites, check the data pages in the roster.

Highlights
John H. Lienhard, Ph.D., ASME Honorary Member and Fellow, has a web site (including scripts) for his outstanding "Engines of Our Ingenuity," which airs weekdays on KUHF-FM Houston (88.7) and many National Public Radio affiliates throughout the United States: http://www.uh.edu/engines.

The Historic American Engineering Record (HAER) has documented several ASME landmarks. To find out more about HAER's work with ASME, select HAER here.  Or go directly to HAER's web site: http://www.cr.nps.gov/habshaer/haer/.

The Sightseer's Guide to Engineering was launched in February 2001 by NSPE and Engineers Week. You can suggest new sites or browse by (US) states.

Museums

• The Smithsonian's homepage is located at http://www.si.edu.
• The Henry Ford Museum: http://www.hfmgv.org/.
• London's Science Museum is or go to its mechanical engineering page 
• Deutsches Museum
• Hagley Museum, a unique library and museum of 19th century American industry
• The Franklin Institute Online
• The Institute and Museum of the History of Science in Florence
• For more museums, see the archive of History News' museum of the month.

Organizations

• ICOHTEC - International Committee for the History of Technology
• Institute for the History of Technology and Industrial Archaeology
• History of Science Society
• The Society for the History of Technology
• The US National Park Service Cultural Resources homepage called "Links to the Past" is http://www.cr.nps.gov.
• The National Trust opened a homepage offering information on travel, historic hotels, the courts and Congress, and a resource directory for preservationists. The address is http://www.nthp.org, or contact Lori Schuman at pr@nthp.org.

Research

• Linda Hall Library
• Reviews in History
• The Gilbreth Network
• The US National Council for Preservation Education has Preserve Net
• The US National Archives, the agency that manages all the records of the federal government, has created a web site for journalists, students, and history buffs: http://www.nara.gov.
• NARA Archival Information Locator
• UCSD's History of Science Reference Sources
• Oral History Association

Online Engineering History Centers:

• IEEE History Center
• Chemical Heritage Foundation
• ASAE (Agriculture) roster
• ASCE (American Society of Civil Engineers)
• American Chemical Society

More . . .

• NASA History Office (External)- http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/History/
• Historical Construction Equipment Association- http://www.hcea.net/v02/
• Prologue Group's Best Business History Sites-
  http://www.prologuegroup.com/sites/sites-index.html
• Science Technology & Science links- http://www2.ncsu.edu/ncsu/chass/mds/stslinks.html
• George Mason University ECHO directory of history links - http://echo.gmu.edu/center/index.html
• H-NET (Humanities and Social Sciences Online)- http://www.h-net.org/
• The History Net: http://www.thehistorynet.com/
• Gas Turbine Primer, includes history: http://www.nyethermodynamics.com/primer/primer.htm
• Cornell Releaux Collection: http://www.mae.cornell.edu/history.html/
• Where are the US naval landmarks? The Historic Naval Visitors' Guide will tell you: http://www.maritime.org/hnsa-guide.htm