Inventions


Mother Necessity

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-8wuGRlRZqk&feature=related


http://www.kyrene.k12.az.us/schools/brisas/sunda/inventor/intro.htm

http://www.urbanext.uiuc.edu/ce/strat128.html

http://inventors.about.com/library/bl/bl12.htm

http://hs.n-polk.k12.ia.us/departments/media/invent.html

http://www.uspto.gov/go/kids/

http://web.mit.edu/invent/invent-main.html

http://www.150.si.edu/150trav/remember/amerinv.htm

http://www.enchantedlearning.com/inventors/indexa.shtml


http://edtech.kennesaw.edu/web/inventor.html


http://www.enchantedlearning.com/inventors/

http://inventors.about.com/od/astartinventions/a/FamousInvention.htm

http://www.cumbavac.org/inventors_and_inventions.htm


 
 
 

Inventors

Alexander Graham Bell
invented the telephone


http://www.surfnetkids.com/alexander_graham_bell.htm


Video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lw06DVany5o

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Thomas Edison
invented the light bulb




http://invention.smithsonian.org/centerpieces/edison/

http://schools.parkhill.k12.mo.us/Renner/Rendo/Thomas%20Edison%20%20(1847%20-%201931)_files/frame.htm

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/collections/ed/
http://www.surfnetkids.com/edison.htm
http://www.si.edu/lemelson/edison/
http://www.americaslibrary.org/cgi-bin/page.cgi/aa/edison
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/edison/
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/edison/timeline/index.html
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/papr:@field(NUMBER+@band(edmp+4057s6))
http://www.edisonnj.org/menlopark/birthplace/125years.asp
http://www.edisonian.com/
http://www.thomasedison.com/
http://www.enchantedlearning.com/inventors/indexa.shtml
http://www.edisonnj.org/menlopark/
http://www.sce.com/kids/teacher/index.html

http://www.edisonian.com/
http://www.sce.com/kids/find_dangers/index.html
http://www.thomasedison.com/
http://www.sce.com/kids/find_dangers/game.html

http://www.surfnetkids.com/edison.htm

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/edison/
http://americanhistory.si.edu/edison/


http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/collections/ed/


http://www.americaslibrary.gov/cgi-bin/page.cgi/aa/edison

http://www.surfnetkids.com/related.php?t=Thomas+Edison

http://www.thomasedison.com/



http://www.surfnetkids.com/games/edison-ws.htm


http://www.scholastic.com/magicschoolbus/games/teacher/electricity/index.htm


Energy
http://www.energyquest.ca.gov/



http://www.aliantenergy.com

http://www.powerhousekids.com/stellent2/groups/public/documents/pub/phk_fg_index.hcsp



Henry Ford
Model T
invented the assembly line

http://www.hfmgv.org/exhibits/hf/default.asp

http://www.hfmgv.org/exhibits/showroom/1908/model.t.html



http://www.americaslibrary.gov/cgi-bin/page.cgi/jb/civil/ford_1

http://www.thehenryford.org/museum/default.asp

http://www.historychannel.com/perl/print_book.pl?ID=19959

http://www.motorsportshalloffame.com/halloffame/1993/Henry_Ford_main.htm


http://www.thesoydailyclub.com/MOShenryford/henryfordDL1.asp

http://www.henryfordestate.com/hfguidenotes1.htm

http://www.cr.nps.gov/nr/travel/detroit/d36.htm





  http://history.sandiego.edu/gen/classes/civ18/ford.html


Benjamin Franklin

Discovered  Electricity in Lightening


http://school.discovery.com/lessonplans/programs/benfranklintimeline/

http://www.pbs.org/ktca/liberty/chronicle/benjaminfranklin.html
http://library.thinkquest.org/J002420F/default.htm
http://earlyamerica.com/lives/franklin/index.html
http://homepage.mac.com/cohora/pbl/f/f.htm
Poor Richard's Almanac
http://pages.prodigy.net/jmiller.cb/prs10.html
http://www.sacklunch.net/poorrichard/
http://www.umkc.edu/imc/franklin.htm
http://www.thinkquest.org/library/lib/site_sum_outside.html?tname=J002420F&url=J002420F/default.htm

http://www.english.udel.edu/lemay/franklin/
http://www.ushistory.org/tour/philmap.html

http://www.fi.edu/franklin/rotten.html


http://bensguide.gpo.gov/benfranklin/ 

  http://sln.fi.edu/tfi/preview/benpreview.html
 
http://www.surfnetkids.com/games/franklin-sw.htm

http://www.pbs.org/benfranklin/


http://www.pbs.org/benfranklin/teachersguide.html


Robert Fulton
Steamboat



http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/blsteamship.htm

http://web.mit.edu/invent/iow/fulton.html

http://www.history.rochester.edu/steam/dickinson/

http://www.history.rochester.edu/steam/thurston/fulton/


http://xroads.virginia.edu/~HYPER/DETOC/transport/fulton.html


http://www.robertfulton.org/


http://www.ulster.net/~hrmm/steamboats/fulton.html



Eli Witney


invented the cotton gin

http://www.cottonsjourney.com/Storyofcotton/page2.asp

http://www.agr.state.nc.us/agscool/commodities/cotonkid.htm

 http://www.eliwhitney.org/

http://www.eliwhitney.org/inventor.htm

http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/blcotton_gin.htm

http://www.invent.org/hall_of_fame/152.html


Wright Brothers



First Airplane 

http://www.pocanticohills.org/wright/wright.htm

http://www2.lhric.org/pocantico/wright/wright.htm

http://www.first-to-fly.com/Adventure/Expeditions/greenfield.htm

http://www.wam.umd.edu/~stwright/WrBr/Wrights.html

http://www.wam.umd.edu/~stwright/WrBr/taleplane.html

http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/Runway/6095/mainplan.html

Online Exhibits Henry Ford Museum Wright Brothers-Invented First Airplane

Wright Brothers Information      Aeroplane Company and Museum of Pioneer Aviation

  Time Life Pictures of Wright Brothers Flight

http://www.pocanticohills.org/wright/wright.htm

http://www2.nature.nps.gov/geology/parks/wrbr/index.cfm 

http://www.pocanticohills.org/wright/wright.htm

100 years of Flight
http://www.plymouthschools.com/webquest/SocialStudies/KFreitas/index.htm

http://www.units.muohio.edu/dragonfly/flight/flight_contents.htmlx

http://www.timeforkids.com/TFK/web/takeflight/index.html
http://www.boeing.com/companyoffices/aboutus/kids/index.htm


How to make paper airplanes
http://www.zurqui.com/crinfocus/paper/airplane.html



Garrett Augustus Morgan

http://education.dot.gov/aboutmorgan.html
http://www.blackinventor.com/pages/garrettmorgan.html



Links
http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/bhistory/inventors/index.htm

http://hs.n-polk.k12.ia.us/departments/media/invent.html
http://www.si.edu/resource/faq/nmah/invent.htm
http://www.ideafinder.com/history/of_inventions.htm

http://inventionatplay.org/

http://www.si.edu/lemelson/centerpieces/index.html

http://www.si.edu/lemelson/
 

http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/1999/china.50/imperial.icon/
 
  http://inventors.about.com/library/bl/bl12.htm

http://www.si.edu/resource/faq/nmah/invent.htm

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Today's Inventors

http://web.mit.edu/invent/index.html