Inventions and Inventors

Use the timeline at the bottom of the pace to select an invention that has changed the way we live.

Inventors listed alphabetically and by a timeline for primary and junior students.

Some interesting stories of women inventors.

Click on Exhibit Hall to find biographies of famous physicists such as Marie Curie, Albert Einstein, and others. 

Read  out agriculture, textiles, steam, steel, transportation, technology inventions then take the on-line quiz.

Inventions and inventors archived alphabetically and chronologically.

• Invention Channels - use index to the right - computer, communications, agriculture, electricity, chemistry, imaging, medical, industrial, nobel prize winners.

Find out who invented the can opener, blue jeans, the frisbee, the feather duster, gas mask, oil burner, blood bank.

• Invention Connection Game: Which Came First?
• Links and Resources

An online game that takes you through Edison's many inventions.

• Edison's Story

Text-based chronological listing of inventions from 500 AD to 1600 AD.