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Inventors

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American Inventors and Inventions	information from the Smithsonian Institute on inventions and inventors ranging from the light bulb, the telegraph and the computer to Albert Einstein and Jonas Salk.
BIOGRAPHICAL RESEARCH	checkout the TJ library biography pages.  If you're inventor was a scientist, make sure to visit the scientist sites on the Special Interest pages.
Computer History Collection Interviews	The Smithsonian National Museum of American History provides interviews with leaders of the computer industry.  Some of the people interviewed are Marc Andressen from Netscape, Bill Gates, and Don Wetzel, the inventor of the ATM.  These interviews are part of the Museum's Computer History Collection.
Discovery Cafe	From the Patent Cafe, an commercial invention and innovation portal, comes a listing of Hispanic/Latino, Chinese, Black, Women and Canadian inventors with profiles and/or links to further information.   Check out the Kids Cafe at this site for information on inventing, ask the experts and science experiments.
The Great Idea Finder History	The Great Idea Finder is a commercial site which promotes inventions and it offers researchers great information on inventions and inventors.  Check out  the Invention Facts and Myths for inventions and Inventor Profile for biographies of inventors.  There is also an Innovation Timeline.
Henry Ford Museum & Greenfield Village	presents information on Henry Ford and The Ford Motor Company, Thomas Edison, and The Wright Brothers.
History Channel	try the History Channel's website.  Type in the name of your invention or inventors or inventions in the search window.  There are articles on Orville and Wilbur Wright and Thomas A. Edison along with information on the history of toys and games.
Innovativelives	from the participants in the Smithsonian Institute's Jerome and Dorothy Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation, comes a series of articles on women inventors, lasers, Thomas Edison, etc.
International Black Inventions Museum	The web site of this museum offers biographies of eleven different inventors including Dr. Patricia Bath and Granville Woods.
Inventor of the Week Archives	part of the Lemelson-MIT Program on invention.  The inventors in this site's archives can be searched alphabetically.  You can also search by invention.
Inventors with  Mary Bellis at about.com	a tremendous collection of sites from the search index, about.com.  Each site has been evaluated by Mary Bellis, an expert in the field of inventions. Take a look at theHistorical Inventions A-Z, Historical Inventors A-Z, Black Inventors, Famous Chinese Inventions, and Famous Women Inventors. You can also type in your inventor's name in the search window.
Inventors Gallery	Extensive list of inventors in aviation with brief biographies which provide the name and date of their inventions.
Inventors In Electricity	A student developed Thinkquest site which lists inventors who are associated with electricity. Thinkquest sites are temporarily closed.
Inventors Online Museum	an online museum with excellent information on a wide variety of inventors.  To find an individual inventor, use the search window. There are articles on Charles Babbage, Thomas Edison, Philo Farnsworth, and Samuel Morse, to name a few.
Jones Telecommunications & Multimedia Encyclopedia Biographies	An online encyclopedia which provides biographies of leaders who have shaped and influenced technology from George Eastman, the founder of Kodak, to John Kemeny, a co-developer of BASIC programming.
MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive	from the School of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of St. Andrews, Scotland, comes an extensive site with biographies of over a thousand mathematicians.  Use the Biographies Index and try out the Mathematicians of the Day.  There is also a History Topics Index to let you explore more about your mathematician's theories and ideas.
Mathographies	Collection of biographical sketches of mathematicians, from Archimedes to Descartes to Kemeny, written by the faculty of Bellevue Community College in Washington.
The National Inventors Hall Of Fame	provides detailed biographies of inventors who are listed in the Hall of Fame.  Inductions are made annually at the Hall of Fame in Akron, Ohio. You can select  inventor by using the The Inventors (alphabetical index) or an invention by using The Index of Inventions.
Spotlight:  Biography Inventors	Detailed biographical information on several American inventors from the Smithsonian Institute's Spotlight series.  The inventors range from Benjamin Franklin to Wilbur Wright.  An excellent set of links is offered at the end of the biographies.
STEPS	Ireland's Institution of Engineering offers brief biographies of notable scientists and inventors including Alexander Graham Bell, Alfred Noble, Margaret Knight, and Stephanie Kwolek.
3DPUBLISHING.COM  Inventor's Hall of Fame	This publishing company's web site offers biographies of four Black American inventors: Dr. Patricia Bath, Joseph Gammell, Lewis Latimer, and Dr. George Carruthers.
Women's Stories	Interesting biographies of women in all fields. Check out the Businesswomen & Inventors and Medical Practitioners sections for biographies of Marjorie Joyner and Virginia Apgar.

 
 

Inventions

Inventors

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Inventions

Individual Inventions

The American Experience	A site from the PBS program, The American Experience  The Telephone.  There is a section on Forgotten Inventors, a Timeline of technology which charts inventions.  There are two sections of the site devoted to the telephone, People & Events and the Gallery which is a visual history of the telephone.
Common Things Around Us Are Often Discoveries & Inventions	Histories of 92 different inventions including the anemometer, microwave, and x-rays.
Discovery Cafe	From the Patent Cafe, an commercial invention and innovation portal, is a listing of notable inventions from medicine to treat AIDS to kevlar to railroad train brakes.  Check out the sections on Food Inventions, Important Historical Inventions and Inventors, and the Big List of Famous Historical Inventions.
Greatest Engineering Achievements of the Twentieth Century	Histories, descriptions and a timeline for 20th century inventions such as the Internet, telephone, laser, and air conditioning.
History of Household Wonders	A History Channel exhibit where you can find out about the history of the vacuum cleaner, the refrigerator, and the walkman in sections on appliances, plumbing and plastics.
History of Inventions	A timeline of inventions beginning with the calendar and ending with  the DVD player from the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's Kids Page.  There is a descriptive paragraph for each invention on the timeline.
How Stuff Works	How does the cell phone work?  How about an MP3 player?  This is the site to find out how things work.  You will find the history of the invention as well.
Innovation Odyssey	The Technology section of the Innovation Odyssey of the Boston History Collaborative presents biographical and technology information about the seven inventions and their inventors including the microwave oven, polaroid film, the telephone, strobe flash, and safety razor.
Renaissance Inventions and Technology	information on inventions which had their roots in the Renaissance, from a student developed site on the Renaissance.  There is information on clocks, gunpowder, eye glasses, the printing press, flush toilets, microscopes, telescopes, submarines and the match.
Science Service Historical Image Collection	The Science Service of the Smithsonian Institute provides images of 20th century scientific research such as automobiles, lasers, radio, telephone, and television as they appeared in newspapers along with the newspaper article featuring the invention.
Time Warp	A student developed Thinkquest site which covers inventions in science, entertainment, medicine, and communication.  You will also find information on inventors such as Alexander Graham Bell, George Eastman and Henry Ford in the Father of Inventions section.
Useless Information:  stuff you never needed to know. . . aspirin, band aids, Eveready batteries, light bulbs, matches, microwave ovens, photocopy machines, zippers and velcro.	authored by Steve Silverman, a high school science teacher and inventor.  He presents little known facts about amazing people, events and inventions.  Additional links and book suggestions are provided for those wanting more information.

 
 

Inventors

Inventions

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These sites have been selected for their relevance to the seventh grade english and science curriculums.  These choices are consistent with the selection policies of the library, and with the print and non-print materials available there.  Each site has been seen by the librarian and has been screened by the school's Internet filtering software.  However, the library, Thomas Jefferson Middle School, and the Board of Education are not responsible for the content of these sites, which is subject to frequent change, nor for the content of any other sites to which these sites may be linked.