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- Inventors Handbook (MIT - Lemelson)
Provides an introduction for aspiring inventors.
- Inventors Resources (MIT - Invention Dimension)
Provides introductory materials, resources for inventors, contests, and more.
- Inventors and Inventions Resources 1 (MIT - Lemelson)
Provides dozens of sources of great projects and facts related to invention. Oriented toward aspiring inventors and young adults.
- Inventors and Inventions Resources 2 (MIT - Lemelson)
Provides dozens of sources of projects and facts related to invention.
- Inventors (About.com - Bellis)
Provides information about inventions and inventors.
- Inventors - Ask a Question (About.com - Bellis)
Provides answers (by email) to questions about inventors and inventions.
- Young Inventors Awards Program (National Science Teacher's Association)
Provides awards each year. "The Craftsman/NSTA Young Inventors Awards Program challenges students to use creativity and imagination along with science, technology, and mechanical ability to invent or modify a tool."
- Inventors (Awesome Library)
Provides sources of information. 1-02
- Scientists and Inventors - African American (InfoPlease.com)
Provides biographies. 1-05
- Great Inventors (Thinkquest.org)
Provides information on Albert Einstein, Douglas Engelbart, Johann Gutenberg, Alfred Nobel, Elisha Graves Otis, Michael Faraday, Alexander Bell, Enrico Fermi, Oliver Evans, Alessandro Volta, George Eastman, Ted Hoff, Benjamin Franklin, Henry Ford, Thomas Alva Edison, Blaise Pascal, James Watt, and Tim Berners-Lee. 7-05
- McCormack, Cyrus (Inventors.About.com)
"Cyrus McCormick of Virginia was responsible for liberating farm workers from hours of back-breaking labor by introducing the farmers to his newly invented mechanical reaper in July, 1831. By 1847, Cyrus McCormick began the mass manufacture of his reaper in a Chicago factory." 01-06
- History of Agriculture and Farm Innovations (Inventors.About.com)
"The cotton gin is a machine that separates seeds, hulls and other unwanted materials from cotton after it has been picked. Eli Whitney patented the cotton gin on March 14, 1794." 01-06
- Patents Search (United States Patent and Trademark Office)
Provides "full text of all US patents issued since January 1, 1976, and full-page images of each page of every US patent issued since 1790."
- Biographies (Library Spot)
Provides links to biographies in nine categories, including Nobel Prize lauraetes, inventors, distinguished women, celebrities, inventors and notable citizens.
- Patenting Process (Colitz)
Diagrams the process of gaining a patent. 1-01
- US Patent and Trademark Office
- Law, Including Patents, Trademarks, Copyright, and More
- Machines
- Patents and Trademarks
- Custom Manufacturing (eMachineshop.com)
Provides software to create the design you wish to have manufactured. Awesome Library does not endorse this service, but shows it as an example. 8-04
- Ford, Henry (CNN News)
"But Ford's contributions reverberate far beyond his company's factories and boardrooms."
"His policy towards employees -- most evident in his 1914 decision to essentially double the then-standard wage to $5 a day, while guaranteeing 8-hour shifts and a 5-day workweek -- rippled through the American economy. As other companies adopted this policy, more and more Americans had both the money and time to drive anywhere, anytime."
" 'If it hadn't been for Henry Ford's drive to create a mass market for cars, America wouldn't have a middle class today,' wrote Iacocca."
"Increased travel spurred appeals for better and more roads, the development of suburbs, the oil industry's rise and a boom in gas stations, strip malls and motels."
"But the assembly line itself had the biggest impact on American society, Hyde contended, in making possible the swift, mass production of everything from computers to 'fast food.' "
"Ford deserves credit for the mass consumption society in which products that people want can be produced so that they are affordable and abundant." 8-04
- Connecting to the World and Inventions (ILoveThatTeachingIdea.com)
Provides over a dozen creative projects for K-6 grade. 2-02
- Kilby, Jack (Texas Instruments)
"It was a relatively simple device that Jack Kilby showed to a handful of co-workers gathered in TI's semiconductor lab more than 40 years ago -- only a transistor and other components on a slice of germanium. Little did this group of onlookers know, but Kilby's invention, 7/16-by-1/16-inches in size and called an integrated circuit, was about to revolutionize the electronics industry."
"Recognizing the need for a 'demonstration product' to speed widespread use of the IC, Patrick E. Haggerty, former TI chairman, challenged Kilby to design a calculator as powerful as the large, electro-mechanical desktop models of the day, but small enough to fit in a coat pocket. The resulting electronic hand-held calculator, of which Kilby is a co-inventor, successfully commercialized the integrated circuit." 8-05
- Kamen, Dean (Texas Instruments)
"Kamen sees the lack of appreciation for science in America as a problem - but that's not to say he's calling for a revamping of the educational system. In his view, more teachers, textbooks, PCs, and Internet access won't get students jazzed about learning. 'They need to have access to challenging, hands-on projects that result in a tangible product' - like building robots. And they need role models - engineers - to assist them." 03-06
- Millions From a Mop (ABC News)
"Joy Mangano's ride from rags to riches all started with a mop, a special mop." 04-06
- Armstrong, Edwin Howard (World.std.com)
"Armstrong is the most important engineer on this list, and one of greats of the 20th century. Most of the greats are known for one or two key innovations: Widlar and the op amp, Cray and vector supercomputers, Sutherland for both Sketchpad and flight simulation. Armstrong had three: regeneration, superheterodyning, and frequency modulation. He was the last of the line of heroic individual American inventors, and he came to a particularly American end - death by lawyers." 12-06
- Patents Search (Google.com)
"Search over 7 million patents."
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