Inventors and Inventions
- Inventions! @ nationalgeographic.com
- Play games about inventors and inventions. Click on It's Your Turn and print out pictures of gadgets to create your own inventions.
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/features/96/inventions/
- The Faces of Science: African Americans in the Sciences
- Profiled here are African American men and women who have contributed to the advancement of science and engineering.
https://webfiles.uci.edu/mcbrown/display/faces.html
- Exploring Leonardo
- Leonardo da Vinci was not only an artist but was also a great inventor whose inventions were far ahead of his time.
http://www.mos.org/sln/Leonardo/LeoHomePage.html
- National Inventors Hall of Fame
- Click on The Inventors to find a huge list of inventors and their inventions.
http://www.invent.org/hall_of_fame/1_0_0_hall_of_fame.asp
- United States Patent and Trademark Office: Kids Pages
- This site will answer all your questions about patents, trademarks and copyrights, and the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. There are also lots of games and puzzles at this site.
http://www.uspto.gov/go/kids/
- Forgotton Inventors
- Do you know who invented the can opener, blue jeans, the Frisbee, the feather duster, the gas mask, the oil burner, and the blood bank? If not, you can find out here. Click on The Telephone and then Gallery for a look at telephones through the years.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/telephone/sfeature/
- The Invention Dimension!
- Click on Inventor of the Week and Inventor of the Week Archives to find out all about inventors. You can search by inventor's name or invention. Click on The Inventor's Handbook to find answers to inventors' most frequently asked questions.
http://www.smith.edu/hsc/museum/ancient_inventions/hsclist.htm
- Ancient Inventions
- This virtual museum from Smith College in Massachusetts includes some unusual and not so unusual inventions from ancient times. Find out who invented eyeliner, the potter's wheel, blown glass, and more.
http://web.mit.edu/invent/
- Zoom Inventors and Inventions
- If the inventor or invention you're interested in isn't on the site, just e-mail the site. You can search for inventors and inventions by time, topic, or alphabetical order.
http://www.ZoomSchool.com/inventors/
- The History of Invention
- Find out about the history of different inventions, such as the toilet, the watch, the printing press, the wheel, toothpaste, and more.
http://www.cbc.ca/kids/general/the-lab/history-of-invention/default.html
