Some links to help you research Inventions and Inventors
Inventors and Inventions
Provides information on inventors and inventions. Accessible in several different ways - alphabetical, by time period, by topic, and by country or ethnicity. Includes a section on inventions in Ancient China.
Inventors Online Museum
Features biographies of inventors and how their inventions changed society. Includes links to related sites.
Guide to Inventors
Provides links to biographies, historical inventions, patent information, etc. Area topics include: Women inventors, Wacky patents, Robotics & robots, Native inventors, Invention scams, etc.. Includes feature stories and links to biographies and lesson plans.
Greatest Inventions: The Evolution of Man through History
Provides information on many popular inventions and inventors from the 15th through the 20th Centuries. Inventors include: Bell, Berners, Eastman, Edison, Einstein, Faraday, Fermi, Ford, Franklin, Gutenberg, Nobel, Volta and Watt. Inventions include: airplane, aspirin, automobile, battery, bicycle, Coca-Cola, DVD, Fax machine, light bulb, microwave oven, printing press, refrigerator, sewing machine, solar battery, steam engine, telephone, television, and the zipper. Includes annotated links to related sites. Searchable.
Ancient Chinese Technology
Provides information and photographs on the topic of Ancient Chinese technology. Categories include: agriculture, engineering, domestic & industrial technology, mathematics, physics, warfare, transportation, and nature.
Inventors
Find information about inventors and inventions. Includes alphabetical and chronological lists of people and their inventions.
"The Greatest Discovery Since Fire"
"Many of us have heard how a Raytheon engineer walked past a microwave tube one day, noticed that a candy bar in his pocket had melted, and was struck with the idea of using microwaves to cook food." This article discusses the "years, even decades, of engineering and marketing" to make the microwave oven work. Includes images. From the American Heritage of Invention & Technology magazine. (LII, 2005)
Microwave Ovens
This site explains how microwave ovens cook food by heating water molecules. "The microwave oven generates electromagnetic waves (called microwaves) which makes water move. This motion leads to friction, and friction leads to heating." Includes interactive features. Part of the Physics 2000 website (written for the layperson) from the University of Colorado at Boulder. (LII, 2005)
Secrets of Lost Empires: China Bridge
Provides background information for the NOVA television broadcast where scholars rediscover the technology required to rebuild an ancient bridge. Links to many other related sites, including one on China’s Age of Invention.
How Stuff works
Links are sorted (Engines, automotive, electronic, music & entertainment, computers, Internet, food, health & nutrition, science & technology, digital, home improvements, home appliances, In public, Around the house, weather, In the news, Energy/Power, telecommunications, aviation, employment/education). Can be easily searched.
How Stuff Works
Brief descriptions on how things work. Topics are sorted by: Computers & the Internet; Engines & automotive; Electronics & communication; Science & technology; Aviation & transportation; Body & health; Living & entertainment; Around the house; and Machines. Includes an area on the future - How stuff will work. Features the most recent articles.
Chasing the sun - The history of commercial aviation
Features an aviation timeline, as well as information about the innovators and companies that expanded commercial aviation. Includes links to additional resources.
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