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Energy for Sustainable Development

Esd Bulgaria: Kids & Energy: Energy Pioneers: Rudolf Diesel (1858 1913)

For Students 9th - 10th
A profile of Rudolf Diesel, who invented the diesel engine.
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Energy for Sustainable Development

Esd Bulgaria: Kids & Energy: Energy Pioneers: Albert Einstein (1879 1955)

For Students 9th - 10th
A profile of Albert Einstein with descriptions of some of his inventions and theories.
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Energy for Sustainable Development

Esd Bulgaria: Kids & Energy: Energy Pioneers: Gertrude Elion (1918 1999)

For Students 9th - 10th
A profile of Gertrude Belle Elion, an American biochemist and pharmacologist and a Nobel Prize winner. She struggled to find her place in the male-dominated scientific world, and went on to become the first woman to be inducted into the...
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Energy for Sustainable Development

Esd Bulgaria: Kids & Energy: Energy Pioneers: Michael Faraday (1791 1867)

For Students 3rd - 8th
A profile of Michael Faraday, a British scientist who discovered electromagnetic induction, which made it possible to develop the technology for generating electricity. He produced many other inventions, some of which are described here.
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PBS

Pbs: Eniac: A Pioneering Computer

For Students 9th - 10th
PBS offers a brief background on the Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer (ENIAC), originally published by ScienCentral, Inc., and the American Institute of Physics.
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Energy for Sustainable Development

Esd Bulgaria: Kids & Energy: Energy Pioneers: Thomas Alva Edison

For Students 3rd - 8th
A profile of Thomas Alva Edison, who lived from 1847 to 1931, an American who made many important inventions, such as the electric light bulb. A timeline of his inventions is provided here.
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Merna A Forster

Heroines: Amelia Douglas, Fur Trade Pioneer

For Students 9th - 10th
Although there are many women entrepreneurs today, its useful to look at examples of women who led the way. Lots of great books ideas here for further study.
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Other

Finding Dulcinea: w.e.b. Du Bois, Civil Rights Pioneer and Social Historian

For Students 3rd - 8th
A biographical profile of W.E.B. Du Bois, an American civil rights activist (1868-1963), who worked to promote equal rights for African Americans.
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Central Pacific Railroad Photographic History Museum

Cprr: Lewis Metzler Clement: A Pioneer of the Central Pacific Railroad

For Students 9th - 10th
Provides biographical information on Lewis Metzler Clement, the chief engineer for the Central Pacific Railroad, who both designed much of the route and supervised construction of the railroad. Includes several primary sources ranging...
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Energy for Sustainable Development

Esd Bulgaria: Kids & Energy: Energy Pioneers: Johannes Georg Bednorz

For Students 9th - 10th
A profile of Johannes Georg Bednorz, who worked with Alexander Muller to make breakthroughs in the field of superconductivity.
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Digital History

Digital History: Life on the Trail

For Students 9th - 10th
Read what life was like for the pioneers traveling west in wagon trains, especially along the Oregon Trail.
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Digital History

Digital History: Opening the West

For Students 9th - 10th
Read how quickly the borders of settlement explanded once the pioneers got started moving west.
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Other

Pioneers, Inc.: Black Scientists and Inventors

For Students 9th - 10th
Find brief descriptions of the inventions of many African-American inventors in many fields in the 19th century.
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Other

Physics Web: Nobel Prize Goes to Semiconductor Pioneers

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from Physics Web gives information on the 2000 Nobel Prize in Physics. It was awarded to Zhores Alferov and Herbert Kroemer for the invention of semiconductor lasers, integrated circuits and other high-speed electronic devices....
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Curated OER

Etc: Maps Etc: Westward March of the Great Pioneers and Explorers, 1911

For Students 9th - 10th
A map of the United States showing the historic sea and land routes taken by famous explorers across North America, from the coastal explorations of Cabot and Corte Real in the Northeast, Ponce de Leon and Alvarez in Florida and the Gulf...
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Curated OER

Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in California: Pioneer Deep Space Station

For Students 9th - 10th
NASA's Deep Space Network for tracking unmanned spacecraft in deep space was inaugurated when this antenna became operational in 1958.
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National High Magnetic Field Laboratory

Magnet Academy: Lee De Forest

For Students 9th - 10th
American inventor Lee De Forest was a pioneer of radio and motion pictures. He received more than 300 patents over the course of his lifetime, the most important of which was for a three-electrode vacuum tube, or triode, that he called...
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National High Magnetic Field Laboratory

Magnet Academy: Peter Debye

For Students 9th - 10th
Peter Debye carried out pioneering studies of molecular dipole moments, formulated theories of magnetic cooling and of electrolytic dissociation, and developed an X-ray diffraction technique for use with powdered, rather than...
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National High Magnetic Field Laboratory

Magnet Academy: Humphry Davy

For Students 9th - 10th
Humphry Davy was a pioneer in the field of electrochemistry who used electrolysis to isolate many elements from the compounds in which they occur naturally. Electrolysis is the process by which an electrolyte is altered or decomposed via...
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National High Magnetic Field Laboratory

Magnet Academy: Joseph Henry

For Students 9th - 10th
Joseph Henry was an American scientist who pioneered the construction of strong, practical electromagnets and built one of the first electromagnetic motors. During his experiments with electromagnetism, Henry discovered the property of...
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National High Magnetic Field Laboratory

Magnet Academy: Luigi Galvani

For Students 9th - 10th
Luigi Galvani was a pioneer in the field of electrophysiology, the branch of science concerned with electrical phenomena in the body. His experiments with dissected frogs and electrical charges led him to suggest the existence of a...
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National High Magnetic Field Laboratory

Magnet Academy: John Ambrose Fleming

For Students 9th - 10th
John Ambrose Fleming was an electronics pioneer who invented the oscillation valve, or vacuum tube, a device that would help make radios, televisions, telephones and even early electronic computers possible. A brilliant innovator,...
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National High Magnetic Field Laboratory

Magnet Academy: Paul Lauterbur

For Students 9th - 10th
Chemist Paul Lauterbur pioneered the use of nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) for medical imaging. He developed a technique, now known as magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), in the early 1970s that involves the introduction of gradients in...
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National High Magnetic Field Laboratory

Magnet Academy: Siegmund Loewe

For Students 9th - 10th
Siegmund Loewe was a German engineer and businessman that developed vacuum tube forerunners of the modern integrated circuit. He pioneered both radio and television broadcasting, and the company he established with his brother, David...

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