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ARS Launches Historical Timeline on the Web



STORY LEAD:
ARS Launches Historical Timeline on the Web

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ARS News Service
Agricultural Research Service, USDA
Kathryn Barry Stelljes, (510) 559-6069, stelljes@asrr.arsusda.gov
February 24, 2000
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Researchers, history buffs and others interested in how U. S. Department of
Agriculture research fits into their lives can now view a chronological
timeline on the World Wide Web at:

http://www.ars.usda.gov/is/timeline

The introduction of the navel orange in the 1870s, domestication of the wild
blueberry in the 1910s, inventions allowing mass-production of penicillin in
the 1940s and the first biodegradable plastics developed from cornstarch in
the 1990s are just some of the accomplishments listed in the timeline.

Initially, the web timeline closely follows the printed version that appears
in the December 1999 issue of Agricultural Research, the monthly magazine
published by USDA's Agricultural Research Service. The printed timeline
contains more than 80 key accomplishments by USDA researchers since the
department was formed in 1862. Also included for historical perspective are
many important administrative and legislative dates, as well as non-USDA
scientific milestones crucial to agricultural research.

Over the next few months, hundreds more items will be added. Links will take
readers to expanded stories on key successes--like discovery of the viroid,
the smallest known agent of plant disease, by ARS' Theodore O. Diener in
1971. The site also highlights dozens of photographs relating to the
timeline.

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Contact: Kathryn Barry Stelljes, ARS Information Staff, Albany, Calif.,
phone (510) 559-6069, fax (510) 559-5882, stelljes@asrr.arsusda.gov.
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This item is one of the news releases and story leads that ARS Information
distributes on weekdays to fax and e-mail subscribers. You can also get the
latest ARS news on the World Wide Web at
http://www.ars.usda.gov/is/pr/thelatest.htm.
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* ARS Information Staff, 5601 Sunnyside Ave., Room 1-2251, Beltsville MD
20705-5128, (301) 504- 1617, fax 504-1648.