INVENTORS & INVENTIONS

Updated July 25, 2003

  The National Inventors Hall of Fame
Invent Now | Hall of Fame | Search
Inventions and Discoveries
Inventors - Home Page
Historical Inventions - Timelines Essays and Research
Historical Invention And Inventors Index
Famous Invention - From A to Z Find any Famous or New Invention
Famous Inventors A To Z - Find Any Inventor
Historical Inventions - A-Z
Historical Inventions - Alphabetical Listing
Archives of Ask An Expert - What Did This Inventor Invent?
Ask An Expert - Who Invented IT? When Was It Invented? And What Did This Invent 
  Inventions from France - Listing of Famous French Inventors 
The American Experience/Technology in America/Timeline
The American Experience/Technology/Forgotten Inventors
The American Experience | Wayback - Technology of 1900
Greatest Engineering Achievements of the Twentieth Century
A Century of Inventions 1900 to 1999 - Inventors
Encyclopedia Smithsonian: Inventors and Innovations
Welcome to Eureka
Medieval Technology Pages
Inventors & Inventions - Special Collection - must have AOL to access this site.
Webliographies -- Inventors
Inventure Place
The Invention Dimension!
HowStuffWorks - Learn how Everything Works!
16th Century Inventions 1500 to 1599
17th Century Inventions 1600 to 1699
18th Century Inventions 1700 to 1799
19th Century Inventions 1800 to 1899
20th Century Inventions 1900 to 1999
Inventors Online Museum Where the Magic of Invention Lives Online!
Inventors Online Museum presents Transportation Inventions
Inventors Online Museum presents Space Travel
Inventors Online Museum presents Medical Inventors and Inventions
Inventors Online Museum presents Fun & Games Inventions
Inventors Online Museum presents Environmental Inventions for a clean Earth
Inventors Museum Presents Communication Inventions
Colonial Inventors presented by Inventors Museum
Impact of Advanced Technology on Western Culture
Famous Scientists
The Engines of Our Ingenuity: Main Page
4000 Years of Women in Science
Lemelson Center Invention Features: Women Inventors
Women's DiscovHERies
Women Inventors and Invention presented by Inventors Museum
Famous Women Inventors
Blacks in Technology: Past and Present
Inventors Online Museum presents African American Inventors
The History of Black Inventors
Encyclopedia Smithsonian: African American Inventors
The Faces of Science: African Americans in the Sciences.
Minorities in Science: Guide to Selected Resources
Garrett Augustus Morgan: Traffic Engineer
Madame C.J. Walker (Sarah Breedlove McWilliams Walker): Inventor, Businesswoman
Madam C.J. Walker
American Inventors and Inventions
Inventors Gallery
Inventions & Inventors Resources
Dead Inventors' Corner Web Links
Lemelson Center
The Da Vinci Inventor's Workshop
Monticello, Home of Thomas Jefferson - yep, one of the U.S.'s Founding Fathers was quite an inventor!
The World of Benjamin Franklin - another Inventive Founding Father
Bushnell: Father of the Submarine
Building a Submarine
A History of Photography, by Robert Leggat
The American Experience | Edison's Miracle of Light
Edison After Forty
Thomas Alva Edison
More on Thomas Alva Edison
Early Recorded Sounds and Wax Cylinders
TELEGRAPH, SCIENTIFIC INSTRUMENT & RADIO MUSEUMS
Tribute to the Telephone Home Page
George Ferris & His Ferris Wheel
Glidden's Patent for Barbed Wire
Henry Ford Museum
Howstuffworks "How Car Engines Work"
Nikola Tesla - The Complete Patents of Nikola Tesla - The Man who invented the 20th Century
The Wright Brothers
"To Fly is Everything...":A Virtual Museum on the Invention of the Airplane
The Farnsworth Chronicles - the invention of TV.
InventorEd's Inventor Resource Internet Pages
The Robert C. Williams American Museum of Papermaking
The Exciting History of Carbon Paper!
Over 70 Years of Bell Labs Innovation: 1925 to today
Tour the Lemelson Center Website: Students
The Great Idea Finder
Jonas Salk, inventor of the Polio vaccine
History Of Cellular, Mobile Phones, PCS, Digital Cell Phones
For more, please visit the specific topics and time periods listed on my Table of Contents page.

PATENTS
Patent and Trademark Office Home Page 
  International and US patent search database  
  Google Patents - search historic patents
  KIDS PAGES - UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE 
Nikola Tesla - The Complete Patents of Nikola Tesla - The Man who invented the 20th Century 
  USPAT.COM - Historical U.S. Patent Collection - Patent Copy Ordering Instructions 
  Historical U.S. Patent Collection by Jim Bieberich 
  Oppedahl & Larson LLP Patent Law Web Server 
  historical patents article 
  Wacky Patents and Wacky Gadgets 
  Wacky Patent of the Month 
Gallery of Obscure Patents 
InventorEd's Inventor Resource Internet Pages  
  Kids Inventor Resources

WACKY INVENTORS & INVENTIONS
R U B E - G O L D B E R G
Funny Inventions
Gallery of Obscure Patents
Wacky Patents and Wacky Gadgets
The Bucky Fuller Travelling Miracle Medicine Show
Inventions by R. Buckminster Fuller
Wacky Patent of the Month
Great American Quacks
Totally Absurd Inventions - Need A Quick Laugh?
Slinky History + Slinky Links
Inventing Barbie