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Black Inventor Online Museum: William Purvis
Read about the African-American inventor, William Purvis, who improved the fountain pen. Included is a list of his other inventions.
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Black Inventor Online Museum: Jan Matzeliger
Picture of shoe-lasting machine invented by Jan Matzeliger.
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Black Inventor Online Museum: Andrew Beard
A short biography of Andrew Beard, whose invention improved the safety of railroads in the 19th century.
BBC
Bbc: History: Edmund Cartwright (1743 1823)
A summary of inventor Edmund Cartwright's (1743-1823 CE) life including details on many of his failed inventions. Archived.
Mocomi & Anibrain Digital Technologies
Mocomi: Thomas Edison Biography
Interesting biographical information, famous inventions, and quotes of Thomas Edison, one of America's greatest inventors.
National High Magnetic Field Laboratory
Magnet Academy: Audion 1906
Two years after Englishman John Ambrose Fleming invented a two-electrode vacuum tube, American inventor Lee De Forest one-upped him by developing a tube with three electrodes.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Mit: Inventor of the Week: Clarence Birdseye (1886 1956)
Brief article about Clarence Birdeye's discovery of a way to preserve food by flash-freezing it.
National Inventors Hall of Fame
National Inventors Hall of Fame: William R. Hewlett
Biographical information about William R. Hewlett, co-founder of the electronics giant Hewlett-Packard.
National Inventors Hall of Fame
National Inventors Hall of Fame: Carl Djerassi: Oral Contraceptives
Brief biography of the scientist who is recognized for determining organic molecular structure and the synthesis of many steroids.
Siteseen
Siteseen: American Historama: Mc Cormick Reaper
Read interesting facts about Cyrus McCormick, inventor of the mechanical horse-drawn reaper 1n 1831.
Agnes Scott College
Agnes Scott College: Grace Murray Hopper
Short biography includes a picture and references.
Other
Patent Museum: Egg Beater: Willis Johnson 1884
A brief description to the patent filing and an excerpt from the patent request that Willis Johnson filed for his improvements in the egg beater. Included are drawings submitted with the patent request.
National Academy of Engineering
Greatest Achievements: Airplane
This page provides an overview of the history behind one of the greatest engineering innovations of all time:the airplane. There is also a timeline showing its development.
Other
Buckminster Fuller Institute: R. Buckminster Fuller, 1895 1983
An extensive biography of R. Buckminster Fuller, an inventor and a philosopher who devoted much of his time to devising practical solutions to the world's problems. There are many additional resources on the site, including information...
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Macmillan/mc Graw Hill: The World, Vol. 1: Changing Ideas: Lesson 6 Quiz
Choose the correct answer for each of the five multiple choice questions to evaluate your comprehension of Great Britain's Industrial Revolution.
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Otis Boykin
Otis Boykin invented electronic control devices for guided missiles, IBM computers, and the control unit for a pacemaker.
PBS
Pbs the West: Joseph Farwell Glidden
Information about the Illinois farmer who improved fencing the plains that led to the demise of open-range cattle ranching. Glidden is credited with the invention of barbed wire.
National Library of Scotland
National Library of Scotland: Digital Archive: Scottish Science Hall of Fame
Biographical and scientific information about discoveries and technological advances credited to ten Scots, Lord Kelvin (Kelvin scale), Alexander Graham Bell (telephone), James Watt (steam engine), and Alexander Fleming (penicillin),...
Calisphere: University of California Libraries
University of California: Calisphere: 1900 1940s: The Rise of Technology
Primary source photographs depicting new technologies and communications at the turn of the 20th century and how lives changed as a result.
PBS
Pbs: Technology and Discoveries
Biographical survey of people who had an impact on 20th century technology and science, including Wallace Carothers, Rachel Carson, Lee de Forest, Henry Ford, Jay Forrester, Grace Murray Hopper, Guglielmo Marconi, William Shockley,...
National Humanities Center
National Humanities Center: America in Class: Becoming Modern: America in the 1920s: Machine
Primary resource material on the way innovatons and machines have modernized and changed America in the 1920s and beyond.
Other
Institute for the Preservation of Elevator History: Frank J. Sprague
Biography of Sprague, who is responsible for the development of electric trailways, electric elevators, and a commercial form of the electric motor.
National Humanities Center
National Humanities Center: America in Class: The Airplane as a Symbol of Modernism
Through art and text, lesson explores Modernism through the airplane as a symbol in the 1920s. Content includes questions for analysis and discussion, follow-up, and guide for discussing art.
American Academy of Achievement
Academy of Achievement: Charles H. Townes, ph.d.
Biography of Charles Townes who is credited for discovering microwave and laser technology from which came digital storage transforming our world.
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