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Businesspeople Bill Gates 
 This official Microsoft website for Bill Gates features a biography, writings, and transcripts (and some webcasts) of his speeches back to 1996. Includes press materials and video on the June 2006 announcement of Gate's transition (effective July 2008) "out of a day-to-day role in the company to spend more time on his global health and education work at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation." http://www.microsoft.com/billgates/ Topics: Notable People Last updated Jun 16, 2006 The Hihn-Younger Archive
Website of an archive devoted to Santa Cruz, California, entrepreneur F.A. Hihn and Charles Bruce Younger Sr., Hihn's attorney. "A German immigrant to California's Gold Rush, F.A. Hihn is considered by many as the County's most influential entrepreneur, from arrival in Santa Cruz (1851) to his death (1913)." Contains biographies and family trees, photos, and material about correspondence files. From the University Library, University of California, Santa Cruz. http://library2.ucsc.edu/Zope/hihn/ Topics: Notable People Last updated Oct 12, 2009 Machine Dreams
Salon.com 's 1998 profile of Steve Jobs, co-founder of Apple Computer. http://www.salon.com/bc/1999/01/cov_05bc.html Topics: Notable People Last updated Oct 2, 2004 PaulAllen.com
Official website for Microsoft co-founder and philanthropist Paul G. Allen. Features brief descriptions and links to additional material about his many projects in areas of technology, museums (such as his Experience Music Project in Seattle), aerospace (the Allen-funded SpaceShipOne won the Ansari X-Prize in 2004), performance art, business, science, sports (he is owner of the Seattle Seahawks and Portland Trail Blazers), and charitable activities. http://www.paulallen.com Topics: Computers Last updated Nov 14, 2006 Topolobampo Collection
This collection includes "records of the Credit Foncier of Sinaloa Company and its failed utopian colony at Topolobampo Bay in Los Mochis, Sinaloa, Mexico in the late nineteenth century. Also includes the business records and personal papers of Albert Kimsey Owen (1847-1916), the colony’s founder." Features a guide to the collection, which includes a history, and more than 500 photographs. From the Henry Madden Library, California State University, Fresno. http://labs.lib.csufresno.edu/SpecialCollections/?page_id=75 Topics: Notable People, Photograph Collections: Regional, Political Parties & Theories Last updated May 15, 2009 Welcome Home, Howard!
This exhibit features excerpts of writings and conversations and annotated images of Howard Hughes as an aviator and aeronautics innovator. Topics include Hughes and the around-the-world flight in 1938, the XF-11 airplane, the Spruce Goose (also known as the Flying Boat), and Hughes in Las Vegas and Hollywood. From Peter Michel, director of the Special Collections Division at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas Libraries. http://digital.library.unlv.edu/hughes/ Topics: Transportation Last updated Jul 8, 2008 |
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