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This category includes sites about individual explorers and groups of inventors. All sites are suitable for children and teens to read and use for enjoyment or for schoolwork. Biographies may be brief and sites may have several, perhaps connected by occupation, but the information contained should have the basic details, e.g., birth and death dates, some details of the life lived, major accomplishments, and so forth.

Subcategories

• Babbage, Charles
• Banneker, Benjamin
• Bell, Alexander Graham
• Braille, Louis
• Carver, George Washington
• Eastman, George
• Edison, Thomas Alva
• Farnsworth, Philo
• Franklin, Benjamin
• Goddard, Robert
• Gutenberg, Johannes
• Hunt, Walter
• Kamen, Dean
• Marconi, Guglielmo
• McCoy, Elijah
• Morgan, Garrett
• Nobel, Alfred
• United States
• Watt, James
• Whitney, Eli
• Wright, Wilbur and Orville

Resources in This Category

• Fact Monster; Inventions and Discoveries

  http://www.factmonster.com/ipka/A0004637.html
  List of inventions from A to Z with dates, inventors, and links to the biographies of some of these inventors.

• Famous American Inventors

  http://www.american-inventor.com/
  Includes brief sketches and images of selected inventors.

• Famous Black Inventors

  http://www.black-inventor.com/
  Profiles of selected African-American inventors of the 20th century.

• George Edward Alcorn, Jr.

  https://webfiles.uci.edu/mcbrown/display/alcorn.html
  Physicist and inventor. Provides brief biography, patent list, curriculum vitae and illustrations.

• Henry Ford - Ignorant Genius

  http://www.abelard.org/henry-ford.php
  Offers a biography and history.

• Historical Figures in Telecommunications

  http://www.itu.int/aboutitu/HistoricalFigures.html
  Brief biographical sketches of about a dozen people who have been important in the history of the development of telecommunications.

• Historical Inventors: A To Z

  http://inventors.about.com/od/famousinventors/
  Resource to research famous inventors, including timelines and sections on women, African American, Native American, Chinese and Hispanic groups.

• Innovative Lives

  http://invention.smithsonian.org/home/
  Short profiles of men and women who are changing life today. From the Smithsonian.

• Inventor Biographies

  http://www.madehow.com/inventorbios/
  Alphabetical list from Cleveland Abbe through Vladimir Zworykin includes nationalities, occupations and stories of their inventions.

• National Inventors Hall of Fame

  http://www.invent.org/
  Celebrates inventors, and has indexes of inventors with brief biographies, and an index of inventions so you can find out who is credited with which invention.

• Robert Noyce

  http://www.pbs.org/transistor/album1/addlbios/noyce.html
  Brief biography of the co-inventor, with Jack Kilby, of the integrated circuit.

• The Black Inventor Online Museum

  http://www.blackinventor.com/
  A look at the great and often unrecognized pioneers in the field of invention and innovation.

• The Great Idea Finder

  http://www.ideafinder.com/history/of_inventors.htm
  Provides invention facts, inventor profiles, innovation timeline, history articles, and trivia quiz.

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