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- The History of Invention
http://www.cbc.ca/kids/general/the-lab/history-of-invention/default.html
Use the timeline at the bottom of the pace to select an invention that has changed the way we live.
- Zoom
Inventions and Inventors
http://www.enchantedlearning.com/inventors/
Inventors listed alphabetically and by a timeline for primary and junior
students.
- How Stuff Works
http://www.howstuffworks.com/
- Innovative
Lives
http://invention.smithsonian.org/centerpieces/ilives/
Some interesting stories of women inventors.
- American
Institute of Physics
http://www.aip.org/history/
Click on Exhibit
Hall to find biographies of famous physicists such as Marie Curie,
Albert Einstein, and others.
- Great
Inventions of the Industrial Revolution
http://www.teachersfirst.com/lessons/inventor/ind-rev-open.htm
Read out agriculture, textiles, steam, steel, transportation,
technology inventions then take the on-line quiz.
- The
Great Idea Finder
http://www.ideafinder.com/history/timeline.htm
Inventions and inventors archived alphabetically and chronologically.
- National Inventors Hall of Fame
http://www.invent.org/hall_of_fame/1_0_0_hall_of_fame.asp
- Invention Channels - use index to the right - computer, communications, agriculture, electricity, chemistry, imaging, medical, industrial, nobel prize winners.
- Forgotten
Inventions
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/telephone/sfeature/index.html
Find out who invented the can opener, blue jeans, the frisbee, the
feather duster, gas mask, oil burner, blood bank.
- Inventing
Modern America: From the Microwave to the Mouse
http://web.mit.edu/invent/www/ima/index.html
- Edison
Invents
http://invention.smithsonian.org/centerpieces/edison/default.as
An online game that takes you through Edison's many inventions.
- Medieval
Technology Timeline
http://scholar.chem.nyu.edu/tekpages/Timeline.html
Text-based chronological listing of inventions from 500 AD to 1600
AD
Copyright
2001
Pat Elliott, Library Specialist
Tuesday December 9, 2008 9:36 PM
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