Research Inventors or Inventions Alphabetically:

• Invention Dimension: This site tells about a different inventor each week or you can go back and research past inventors. An alphabetical listing of inventors and inventions is included making your research as simple as A, B, C.
• National Inventors Hall of Fame: You can experience the excitement of discovery, creativity, and imagination as you search through exhibits of past inventors. Inventors and inventions are alphabetically listed.

What Does it Take To Be an Inventor?

• Learn What it Takes to Be an Inventor: This site describes the four character roles that an inventor displays. Detailed timelines of famous inventors are included as well as information from Discovery Channel.
• Wacky Patent of the Month: This site allows you to explore wacky patents and recognizes selected inventors and their somewhat wacky inventions.

Research the World Around You:

• How Stuff Works: Learn about how things work in the world around you. There is a new feature article each week and detailed information is given about motors, electronics, things around the house, things to see in public, computers and more.

• Popular Mechanics Time Machine: Press a button from 1900 to1960, and travel back to the reports as featured in Popular Mechanics. A lot of interesting graphics are included.

Everybody can be an inventor!

• Black History Inventors: Examine some profiles of famous African American inventors. Discover the developer of the blood bank to the inventor of the first traffic signal.
• Girl Tech Invention: Kooky inventions, famous women and girl inventors are featured. Explore electronic gadgets just for girls and inventhers.

Designed by Miss Barry 1999.

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