Inventions are cool!

 

Check out these websites on inventions.

 

 

 

Inventions change our lives. Greatest Inventors and Inventions: Thinkquest by students in Illinois
What in the world is that? Technology at home (Requires Shockwave)
Enchanted Learning:  Inventors and Inventions Invention Timeline Canadian Broadcasting Corp.
Invent.org Hall of Fame  You can browse by invention or inventor Technology Timeline from PBS
The Franklin Institute: Inquiry Attic Invention at Play
By Kids For Kids: Invent a Toy Contest African American Inventors
History Wired National Museum of American History
Kids may need some navigational help--but extremely cool site!		 Inventions: World Almanac for Kids
PC Magazine's top fifty gadgets of the last 50 years  
Cars History of the Automobile     Electricity Ben Franklin Edison  
Franklin Institute Edison's Home Page  
Franklin's Kite Wizard of Menlo Park  
Ben's Guide
Flight

PBS Kids

 Library of Congress--includes timeline Smithsonian: Milestones of Flight Telephone

Major Idea Finder

Alexander Graham Bell

Library of Congress: The First Telephone
Aeronautics for beginners

NASA's Laboratory of Flight

 From Foot to Flight To Fly is Everything
Includes many pictures
Helicopters

Helicopters and Igor Sikorsky

     Television Philo Farnsworth Vladimir Zworykin  
Roller Skates Roller Skating History Micajah Henley Inline Skating Recording Sound Thomas Edison's Phonograph History of Recorded Sound  
Radio Lee DeForest     Robots      
Typewriters Smithsonian Early Typewriter History from MIT Classic Typewriter Page Computers History of Computers PBS Think Quest:History of Computers  

 

 

                                                             

 

 

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