Scientific American magazine slideshow celebrates 165 years of scientific progress

Scientific American magazine was founded in 1845.  To mark this 165th anniversary, the magazines editors have created this slideshow showing scientific progress as documented through the pages of this publication.

Inventors of Summit County Collection

 The Inventors of Summit County Collection is a new resource featured in the Summit Memory project, an online scrapbook capturing the history of Summit County, Ohio. This new resource is part of an ongoing project to document patents issued  since 1839, when the first patent was issued to a Summit County resident. This information will [...]

Math help on the web

Need a good web site to answer a math question? Try Wolfram Alpha http://www.wolframalpha.com/  Enter any math formula or calculation and this web site will give you a complete answer, in some cases it will even show you the steps it took to answer the question. Take a look at the video explaining the depth [...]

How Does He Do It?

How, indeed, does Santa make his annual visit to the home of every good little child?  Great minds have pondered this riddle for centuries, and now, a website which claims to be the official Santa Claus website, will try to explain it.  But, as we all know, science can’t explain everything.  Some things are just [...]

Vehicle Repair

Need to do some work on your car or truck?  Check out our large selection of repair manuals.  We have Chilton’s, Haynes, Motor, and Mitchell as well as Clymer for motorcycle repair.  Don’t see what you want?  Use Mitchell On Demand available on all library computers.