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Inventions
Radio, Telephones, Televisions, Aadi's School Science Project, Inventions at Nationalgeographic.com, Reinvent the Past: Famous Inventions, Smith College Museum of Ancient Inventions, Totally Absurd Inventions
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Become An Inventor
http://www.thinkquest.org/library/lib/site_sum_outside.html?tname=C006094&url=C006094/
A guide to finding and solving inventive problems, performing patent searches, and marketing ideas. Requires Flash plug-in.
Encyclopedia Smithsonian: Inventors and Innovation
http://www.si.edu/resource/faq/nmah/invent.htm
Provides links to Smithsonian web resources.
Great Inventions and Inventors
http://www.thinkquest.org/library/lib/site_sum_outside.html?tname=5847&cid=2&url=5847/
Elementary school students introduce some of the greatest minds and machines in the modern era. Includes timeline.
The American Experience: Forgotten Inventors
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/telephone/sfeature/
Highlights everyday items such as blue jeans or the can opener and tells about people who created them.
The Headbone Derby: Invention Snatchers
http://www.headbone.com/derby/invent/main.b.html
Internet research adventure helps 4th-8th graders discover inventors from the past and learn how inventions come to be.