Other
Rockefeller University: The Environment Since 1970
High level discussion of environmental change in a twenty year period. Look for CFC's as you scroll down to the heading "Indicators of the environment."
Other
Grosse Pointe Historical Society: The Ford Family
Article discussing the Ford Family, with portions on Edsel Ford.
University of Colorado
University of Colorado: History of the Automobile
This site is from the University of Colorado explaining the history of the automobile and the impact it had on the American culture. Learn all about the changes that occurred in American culture because of the automobile.
Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Learner: A Biography of America: The Twenties 1913 1929
How would you describe the 1920s? The decade was called the Roaring Twenties, the beginning of modern America. Take a look at the economic prosperity, prohibition, popular culture, and the invention of the automobile, then you decide, a...
Smithsonian Institution
Encyclopedia Smithsonian: Early Cars: Fact Sheet for Children
Encyclopedia entry presents fun facts about the history of the automobile.
Smithsonian Institution
National Museum of American History: Duryea Automobile
From the Smithsonian collection of early automobiles. Read about the Duryea automobile and how it worked. Included are pictures of this early car and a brief description of its creators, the Duryea brothers.
Other
Motorline: Motorsport
Austrian Racing site in German with many images that can be navigated by beginners. Numerous links to images, games, screen savers, motorcycles, Formula 1 racing (Formel 1) and cars in general (Autowelt).
Ohio State University
Osu History Teaching Institute: The Automobile
This lesson plan will help students understand the different ways in which the automobile changed American society. Students will learn about Henry Ford, whose innovations transformed manufacturing and made automobiles affordable for...
NASA
Nasa: The Space Place: Power Up With Tortillas!
This site from NASA provides The Space Place which gives a great explanation of energy sources for young readers using the space shuttle, cars, and our human body as examples.
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Harcourt: Biographies: Henry Ford Biografia (Espanol)
A brief biography of Henry Ford. Ford's great ideas were to improve the inventions around him and to produce them very efficiently. Good links to pictures and other information.
Siteseen
Siteseen: American Historama: Henry Ford and the Model T
Henry Ford created the Model T car, the first affordable automobile, and in 1913 introduced mass production of automobiles.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Mit: Inventor of the Week: Henry Ford
This site from MIT Invention Dimension is a brief profile of Henry Ford focusing on the Assembly Line.
Science4Fun
Science4 Fun: Car
Illustrated discussion of the first car in 1769, the first practical car by designer Karl Benz in 1885, and the invention of combustion engines.
Curated OER
Alice Ramsey and Crew
EyeWitness to History offers stories of early exploits of the automobile, based on writings from the turn of the 20th century.
Curated OER
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Who invented the automobile? While there is no simple answer to this question, this site does shed some light on the topic. The images, related links, and further reading supplement the content here by the the library of congress.
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Who invented the automobile? While there is no simple answer to this question, this site does shed some light on the topic. The images, related links, and further reading supplement the content here by the the library of congress.
Curated OER
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Who invented the automobile? While there is no simple answer to this question, this site does shed some light on the topic. The images, related links, and further reading supplement the content here by the the library of congress.
Curated OER
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Who invented the automobile? While there is no simple answer to this question, this site does shed some light on the topic. The images, related links, and further reading supplement the content here by the the library of congress.
Curated OER
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Who invented the automobile? While there is no simple answer to this question, this site does shed some light on the topic. The images, related links, and further reading supplement the content here by the the library of congress.
Curated OER
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Who invented the automobile? While there is no simple answer to this question, this site does shed some light on the topic. The images, related links, and further reading supplement the content here by the the library of congress.
Curated OER
Automobile in American Life and Society
An interactive website that looks at all aspects of the automobile in American life. Teacher and student resources are included.
Curated OER
Beacon Learning Center: Blue Car
A cartoon image of a blue car with smoke coming out of its tailpipe.