Inventors and Inventions Resources

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General Information on Inventions and Inventors

If you are not able to locate information on a specific invention from the sites suggested below, try the following:
Inventure Place
Very helpful list of American Inventors and their inventions. Links to other sites too.
Invention Dimension's list of Inventors.
From the Massachusetts Institute of Technology an alphabetical list of inventors.
Invention Dimension's list of Inventions.
From the Massachusetts Institute of Technology an alphabetical list of inventions.
The American Academy of Achievement
Type your invention in the "Search For" box on this page be sure and add the word invention.
The Benjamin Franklin Institute.
One of America's most prolific inventors.
Important Historical Inventions and Inventors.
A list of inventions and their inventors with date and nationality from the Lousiana State University Library.

Invention of the Automobile

Life's Automobiles
Life magazine's collection of 100 years of automobiles.

Aviation

World War I Aviation Page
One of the revolutionary inventions used for the first time in WW I was the airplane. 
Stealth Aircraft
The US Air Force Museum 5oth Anniversary....1980s technology.
F-117 Stealth in Action
Excerpt from the book. Some background on the stealth bomber.
What is Stealth?
Discussion of stealth technology and link to history of stealth.

Inventing the Computer

The Virtual Museum of Computing.
Navigate this site to find out about the history of computing.
The Computer Museum of America
Search for additional information about the history of the computer.
The Computer Museum Network.
Check out the computer history resources.
CD-ROM.
Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands.
Compact Disk
University of Deleware. Scroll down to "How CD's work."
PC Magazine: the Evolution of CD Technology
includes a timeline of the CD and related articles.

Inventions in the Media

Check out Inventur Place and Invention Dimension above. Look under the name of the invention.

The Media History Project Links Pages
A gold mine of information on all types of media including: oral culture, printing, telegraph, telephone, journalism, photography, comics & graphics, advertising, radio, recording industry, movies, television, computing, and general references. Check this one out!
Television System
From the Inventure Place, National Inventors' Hall of Fame.
The Farnsworth Chronicles (The story of TV inventor Philo Fransworth)
The saga of America's inventor of television.

Discovery Channel's Dead Inventors' Corner

Discovery Channel offers a bi-monthly section in the on-line magazine which covers inventors, including the bloopers as well as the successes. The following is a list of the inventors about which articles have been written. Be sure and check the "Web Links" at the end of each article for additional information.

B

Leo Hendrik Baekeland , "The Man who Invented Plastic"
The first plastic ware was called Bakelite!
"Alexander Graham Bell's Odd Obsession"
He invented more than just the telephone.
Bell's Telephone
(Not Discovery) Lots of links to Bell and History of the Telephone.
"Alphonse Bertillon and the Science of Criminal Identification."
How about measuring head sizes, ears and noses?
"The Checkered Game of Milton Bradley's Life."
Learn about Bradley's life by clicking on the checkered squares.
"Vannevar Bush: Dreaming of the World Wide Web"
He fathered the digital revolution with his "thinking machine" called Memex.
"The Calculating Countess" Ada Byron
the founder of computer programming who worked with Charles Babbage on his mechanical adding machine.

C

"Caresse Crosby and the Brassiere."
Otherwise known as Mary Phelps Jacob, she started the revolution in womens' undergarments.

E

"Charles and Ray Eames: Pioneers of Multimedia."
When is it real? Sound, pictures, motion, vibration and even aromas!
Thomas Edison's worst invention.
"Why Delores Chumsky hates Thomas Edison." The single piece cast concrete house!
The Wizard of Menlo Park (Thomas Edison)
(Not part of Discovery) This site has pictures of Thomas Edison along with some facts about his inventions and life.

G

"Charles Goodyear; Rubber Visionary."
"For Charles Goodyear, rubber was salvation."
"The Good Doctor Guillotin."
An inventor who did not loose his head.

H

Dr. William Higinbotham. "The First Video Game or: Fun with the Oscilloscope."
It all began with Pong.

K

"Sergei Pavlovich Korolev. Soviet Space Program..."
The master mind of the Soviet Space Program.

L

Lloyd Loar: Unsung Visionary of the Electric Guitar."
The first with ampflied sound.

M

Garrett A. Morgan: an Unsung Hero."
Inventor of the first gas mask or "breathing helmet."
"The Real McCoy" --Elijah McCoy
Invented lubricants for steam cylinders, air-brake pumps and slide valves.
Wendell Moore and the Jet Pack"
Fly without an airplane!

P

"Two Pierres, one Velocipede" Inventors of the bicycle.
"C.W. Post: the Original Imitator"
Inventor of Postum (coffee substitute) and breadfast cereal.

R

William Conrad Roentgen. "X Marks Roentgen's Spot in History"
Invention of the x-ray.

D

"Alberto Santos-Dumont: Icarus Descending"
Invention of the dirigble (blimp), without which we would not be able to see a football game on TV.
Sikorsky and the Helicopter
inventor of the whirlybird.
"Gideon Sunback, Unzipped"
The inventor of the modern zipper as we know it.

T

"Alan Turning and the Imaginary Computing Machine"
Is this where the computer originated?

Z

Konrad Zuse and the Programmable Binary Calculating Machine.
If only he had been able to share this invention...
This page created 11-97 Claudia Argyres.