| National
Inventors Hall of Fame |
How
Stuff Works |
Invent
America
This is the Invent
America website; it provides information about the program and the contest. |
| Award
winning site from our own Sherwood School |
3M
Collaborative Invention Unit
Learn what it takes
to become an inventor at this site designed for students. This company
should know what it takes to be a successful inventor--it is the home of
innovations like Post-It notes and Thinsulate thermal insulation. Great
site! |
Brainpop:
Welcome to Technology |
| Greatest
Inventions of the 20th Century |
Rube
Golderg Inventions
Best known for his
"INVENTION" cartoons that use a string of outlandish tools, people, plants
and steps to accomplish everyday simple tasks in the most complicated way,
Pulitzer Prize winning cartoonist Rube Goldberg's drawings point out that
people are often overwhelmed by over complicating their lives. |
Inventor's
Biographies |
| United
States Patent and Trademark Office |
Inventions
Theme Page |
Female
Inventors |
Inventure
Place
The
home of the National Inventors Hall of Fame, this place has biographies
of inventors and an index of their inventions. |
History
of Inventions Timeline |
Secrets
of a Master Builder
"He was America’s
greatest engineer: an obsessive visionary who walked the floor of the Mississippi
River, built the nation’s first ironclad ships, designed a steel bridge
no one thought possible, and opened the country’s heartland to trade with
a daring river control system. A bold entrepreneur and charming promoter,
James Buchanan Eads created a series of technological marvels that changed
the course of American history and inspired a new generation of engineers. |
African
American Inventors Series
A nice list of African
American women inventors. |
Inventors
and Invention Theme This
"Theme Page" has links to curricular resources and instructional
materials. Lots of good stuff here. |
Invention
Dimension
This site maintained
by MIT includes an inventors handbook as well as an inventor of the week
section. |
Inventors
Museum
Site with inventor
information that has been arranged into such categories as medical inventors,
women inventors, colonial inventors, etc. It also has an Inventors
IQ test. |
American
Inventors and Inventions
This site is part
of The Smithsonian Institution and includes pictures. |
Eureka!
In this webquest students
will research three inventors and their inventions and explore the process
of inventing and becoming an inventor. |
| Inventors
of the 1800's |
|
Inventors
of the 1900's |
