Open Directory - Kids and Teens: People and Society: Biography: Inventors
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  • Historical Inventors: A To Z [ ] - Resource to research famous inventors, including timelines and sections on women, African American, Native American, Chinese and Hispanic groups.
  • National Inventors Hall of Fame [ ] - 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.
  • 19th Century African-American Inventors [ ] - Short articles on black inventors from Suite101.com.
  • Blacks in Technology, Past and Present [ ] - Profiles of seven African American inventors.
  • Elias Howe [ ] - Credited with inventing the first practical sewing machine. This biography is from Scientific American Online.
  • Elias Howe [ ] - Profile of the inventor of the sewing machine; born in Spencer, Massachusetts.
  • Ernst F. W. Alexanderson [ ] - Profile of the Swedish-born inventor of the High-Frequency Alternator Radio.
  • Fact Monster; Inventions and Discoveries [ ] - List of inventions from A to Z with dates, inventors, and links to the biographies of some of these inventors.
  • Famous American Inventors [ ] - Includes brief sketches and images of selected inventors.
  • Famous Black Inventors [ ] - Profiles of selected African-American inventors of the 20th century.
  • George Edward Alcorn, Jr. [ ] - Physicist and inventor. Provides brief biography, patent list, curriculum vitae and illustrations.
  • Great and Famous Inventors [ ] - Elementary school students introduce some of the men and women whose creations changed the 20th century.
  • Henry Ford - Ignorant Genius [ ] - Offers a biography and history.
  • Historical Figures in Telecommunications [ ] - Brief biographical sketches of about a dozen people who have been important in the history of the development of telecommunications.
  • Innovative Lives [ ] - Short profiles of men and women who are changing life today. From the Smithsonian.
  • Inventor Biographies [ ] - Alphabetical list from Cleveland Abbe through Vladimir Zworykin includes nationalities, occupations and stories of their inventions.
  • InventorNet [ ] - A Thinkquest project which tells about the inventors of the telephone, light bulb, CD, curling iron, microwave and paper.
  • James Nasmith [ ] - Profile, career, and background history on the sport's inventor. From the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame.
  • Robert Noyce [ ] - Brief biography of the co-inventor, with Jack Kilby, of the integrated circuit.
  • The Black Inventor Online Museum [ ] - A look at the great and often unrecognized pioneers in the field of invention and innovation.
  • The Great Idea Finder [ ] - Provides invention facts, inventor profiles, innovation timeline, history articles, and trivia quiz.
  • The Invention Dimension: Inventor of the Week Archives [ ] - Browsable and searchable collection of short, yet scholarly biographies geared toward students.
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