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Major Sources
Index of
Inventions
Discovery
Online, Inventors and Inventions
Mothers
of Invention: Female Inventors
Inventions
and Gizmos - Inventors
American
Inventors and Inventions
Over 70
Years of Bell Labs Innovation
Individual
Inventions - Inventors Net Links
"How Things
Work"
The
Invention Dimension: Inventions in Alphabetical Order
Women Inventors
Project
Welcome
to Invention!
Women Invent!
Two Centuries of Discoveries
Resources
for the history of invention
Do You
Know... when it was invented?
Historical
Inventions: Alphabetically
Wacky Inventions & Inventors
Kooky
Inventions
Funny
Inventions and Funny Words
The Bucky
Fuller Travelling Miracle Medicine
Inventions
by R. Buckminster Fuller
Wacky Patent of the
Month
Totally Absurd - Need A
Quick Laugh?
Rube Goldberg
Absurd Archive
- Totally Absurd Inventions Patented
By The Decade
1900
1910
1920
1930
1940
1950
1960
1970
1980
1990
"A"
AeroSpace
History
of AeroSpace
Iintorduction
to Flight
Milestones
prior to 1903
Heroes
& Heroines
Air Conditioning
Air Conditioning
Willis
Haviland Carrier
Airplane
Orville
& Wilbur Wright: Flying- Machine
Leonard
Michael Greene: Stall Warning Device for Airplanes
To
Fly is Everything
The
Wright Brothers
How
we made the first flight
Aviation
Technology
The Airline
History Pages
Aluminum
Charles
Martin Hall: manufacture of aluminum
Ambulance
Ambulance
History
Association for
Preservation of Historic Ambulances
Ambulance History
- photo of first car model used
Museum of
Professional Cars
Apgar: Newborn Scoring
Virginia
Apgar
Architecture
Architecture Through
the Ages
The
Julia Morgan Collection
Frank Lloyd
Wright
20th
Century American Architecture
17th
Century American Architecture
18th
Century Architecture
19th
Century American Architecture
Art
Art History Network Home
Page
Artificial Heart
Willem
J. Kolff: Soft Shell Mushroom Shaped Heart
Assembly Line
Henry
Ford: The Assembly Line
Astronomy
Astronomiae
Historia / History of Astronomy
Athletic Shoe - Modern
Bill
Bowerman and Phil Knight
Automobile
History
of the Car - Contents
The Life
of Henry Ford
Kustom Kars
Charles
Franklin Kettering: Engine Starting Device & Ignition System
Henry
Ford: Transmission Mechanism
Ford Motor Company
Worldwide
100 Years
of Japanese Motoring
West
of Laramie: brief history of the first 100 years of US auto industry
BFGoodrich
History
Corvette - Stingrays &
Vettes
Automotive
Industries 100th Anniversary Issue: 1895 - 1995
Toyota
Museum: Find a Car in History: All Manufacturers
Early Adventures with
the Automobile
Automotive
History: Early Years & Time Line
AutoWorld History:
Time Line by Era
Sloan Museum: Exhibit
of historic cars & early automobile manufacturing
John
Lambert
Charles
Franklin Kettering: Ignition System
Rudolf
Diesel: Diesel Engine
Nicolaus
August Otto: Gas-Motor Engine
The Spirit
Is Still Alive: American Motors Corporation 1954-1987
Chrysler
Corporation Corporate History
Dodge, Plymouth
& Chrysler Police Cars 1956-1978
Ford
Motor Company Heritage
General
Motors History
Postal Jeep
History
Insiders'
History of Plymouth
BaRx
Automobile Histories & Images
"B"
Balloons
Balloons
Ballooning
History
of Ballooning
BalloonZone
~ Short History of Hot Air Ballooning
BalloonZone ~ Hot Air
Ballooning
Ball Point Pen
A Brief
Technological History of the Pen
Pen Collecting
Glossary
BIC Pens
Marcel
Bich: Father of Bic Pens
Berol
Pens
Pens that write
History
Parker
Pens: 1888 - Present
Ballet
A
Brief History of Ballet
Barbie Doll
Inventing
Barbie
Introduction
Barbie
in the Sixties
Barbie
in the Seventies and Eighties
Barbie
in the Nineties
Baseball
The History
of Baseball Homepage
The Science
of Baseball
Basketball
A
Brief History of Professional Basketball
Official site of the National
Basketball Association History
Harlem
Globetrotters History
History
of Basketball in the US
Year
by Year - NBA - CBS.SportsLine.com
ThinkQuest: Basketball
Mania
Women's Basketball
History
of Women's Basketball
HoopTown USA:
Basketball Hall of Fame
Army/Navy
Rivalry
MAAC Women's
Basketball History
Bible
History
of the Bible
Bigfoot or Yeti
Bigfoot
Phenomenon - Web Resources
Bigfoot
The North American
Science Insitute
Links
to other Bigfoot web sites
BioMedicine
History of
Biomedicine
History of Western
Biomedicine
Blue Jeans
Levi
Strauss
Board Games
Mancala
Rules and History
A
History Of Traditional Board Games
Hnefatafl:
strategic board game of the Vikings
African
games / Awale links
BackGammon
Marvin
Glass: Mouse Trap
Who Invented
Monopoly?
History
of Trivial Pursuit
Chaturanga:
Early Chess
History of
Mah Jongg
Go
in Ancient China
The
Origin of Risk and its Evolution to Present Day
The rules and
the history of Renju
About
Mattel
Bowling
History of
Bowling
Broadcasting
Broadcasting
History 1920 - 1960
The Museum of Television
& Radio
History
of Modern Communications, Computers and Media: 1900 - 2000
WWWVL
History of Science, Technology and Medicine
Bra or Corsette
Tracey's
Silhouette: History of the Corset
A MINI-HISTORY
OF THE CORSET
Historical
Costuming FAQ
Brain Surgery
History
of Brain Surgery
Bread
A History
of Bread
Bubble Gum
The Story of
Chewing Gum
How Gum Is
Made
How
To Blow Bubbles
Life Blows Up. (Lucky
Guy.) - Bubble Gum Inventor
C"
Calculators
History
of Calculators - Timeline
Articles
on the History of Electronic Calculators
History
of computing resources
Carbon Paper
The
Exciting History of Carbon Paper!
Cartography
The History
of Cartography Project
Map History / History of
Cartography Gateway
Cereal Box Tops
Mary
Spaeth
Cheese
Cheese
History
Chemical Engineering
The
History of Chemical Engineering
Chia Pets
Joseph Enterprises - Chia
Pets
Chocolate
History
of Chocolate
Clocks
A
History of Clocks
Time
Keeping through History
Coca Cola
Bits O'
History
World Of Coca-Cola
Pavilion
Coffee
The History
of Coffee
Cognitive Science
The History
of Cognitive Science
Comic Books
History
of Comic Books
Communication
Timeline
of Communication History
Computing & Computing
Devices
History of
Computing
History
of Computing Devices: Introduction
William
Seward Burroughs: Calculating Machine
Concrete
History
of Concrete
Contraceptives
Carl
Djerassi: Oral Contraceptives
Frank
B. Colton: Estradiene Compounds
Costumes
The History
of Costume by Braun & Scheider
The History
of Shoes
Historical
Costuming FAQ
Cotton Gin
Eli
Whitney :Cotton Gin
Crayons
Invention
of Crayons - CRAYOLA®
Cremation
History
of Cremation
"D"
Diseases
History of
Diseases
Dog Pedigree
Pedigrees:
The History of the Dog
Drive-in Theater
The Drive in
Theater
Virtual Tour
Of Drive-In History
OLD: Drive-In
Ads 1958
"E"
Eating Utensils: Knife, Fork, Spoon, Spork,
Chopsticks
The
History of Eating Utensils
CuisineNet
Digest: Western Eating Utensils - by time line
The Slightly Less Than Official
Spork Homepage
Education
The History
of Education Site
History
of the Idea of a University
History
of education in the USA, 19th
Universal
education:19th century Britain
History
of education, General Links
Blackwell
History of Education Research Museum
Electron
The Discovery
of the Electron
Electric Chair
Biology
of Electrocution
Women in
the Electric Chair
Elevator & Elevator Safety
History
of Elevators
Otis
Elevator Company Marks 250th Charter Anniversary of Founder’s
Birthplace
History
of Escalator Safety
Fenlon Place
Elevator Company History
The
Elevator Code in the 21st Century
Erector Set
A. C. Gilbert
- Erector Set
Etch A Sketch®
Arthur
Granjean - Etch-A-Sketch
Executions - Historical &
Electrocutions
Botched
and Wrongful Electrocutions
Historical
Methods of Torture and Execution
"F"
Fast Food
Welcome to
McDonald's
Home -White Castle
Fast Food Drive Thru
Jack
in the Box - Our History
Fisheries
Fisheries Historical
Information
Flight
Flight
Food Development
History
of Food Development
Fragrance
Aromatherapy
- A History of Fragrance
Frisbee
Where the
Frisbee First Flew
The
Frisbee Pie Company
Walter
Frederick Morrison
Frisbee
Patent
Frisbee
Physics: How A Frisbee Flys
Ultimate
Frisbee: The Sport
Furnace
Hopewell
Furnace NHS Home Page
"G"
Games
A
History Of Traditional Games
Gardening
Gardening History
Timeline - From Ancient Times to the 20th Century
Gems & Minerals
Smithsonian
Gem & Mineral Collection
Geological Society
of America
GeoPhysics
Geophysics
History Project
A
History of Atmospheric General Circulation Models
Gingerbread
The History
of Gingerbread
Glue & Adhesives
History of Hide
Glue
History
of Adhesives
MakeStuff.com:
How to Make Your Own Glue
This to That:
Glue Trivia
Guillotine
History
of the Guillotine
Guillotine
Museum
The
guillotine
People
of the Guillotine
Guillotine
Headquaters
"H"
Hackie Sac
Why
Footbag?
Herbs, Oils & Aromas
A History
of Herbs, Oils and Aromas
Hologram
The History and
Development of Holography, hologram
Dennis Gabor
- Father of Holography, Hungarian Nobel Laureate
Dennis
Gabor Winner of the 1971 Nobel Prize in Physics
Hoola Hoop
Richard
Knerr & Arthur "Spud" Melin, founders of Wham-O Company
"I"
Ice Cream
Here's the
Scoop Ice Cream - History
Inline Skate
Scott Olson
Inventor Biography
Rollerblade.com
Insects & Human Impact of
Impact of Insects on Human
History
Internet
History
of INTERNET
Internet Society:All
About The Internet
Life
on the Internet: Net Timeline
How
the Internet Came to Be
Short
history of the Internet
Ironing Board
Sarah
Boone
SmartCal: Sarah
Boone Patents Ironing Board (1892)
Sarah
Boone
Italian Cooking
History
of Italian Cooking
"J"
Juggling
A History
of Juggling
"K"
Kaleidoscope
Brewster,
Sir David
Kaleidoscopes
F.A.Q.'s About
Kaleidoscopes
"L"
Lava Lite® Lamp
Lava Lamp: Craven
Walker
Law
Medieval
Sourcebook: Medieval Legal History
Light Bulb
LightBulb:
Thomas Edison
History
of a Light Bulb: Self-Annealing
LightBulb
Slide Show
Livermore's Centennial Light
- World's Longest Burning Light Bulb 100 years+
Liquid Paper
Bette
Nesmith Graham
"M"
Manuscript
What
is a Manuscript?
Materials Science
Materials Science
and Engineering: Table of Contents
What is
Visual Material Science
Visualizations
in Materials Science
Maritime History
The
Maritime History Virtual Archives
Far
Horizons - the Sailors' Web Search
Mathematics
The
History of Mathematics
History
of Mathematics: Timeline
Chronological
List of Mathematicians
History
of Mathematics Archive
Famous
Curves Index
History
Topics
Mathematicians
of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century
History
of Mathematics
Mechanical Reaper
Cyrus
Hall Mccormick
Medicine
History
of Medicine Course Syllabus
Microwave Oven
Percy
L. Spencer
Military History
Military History
& Aviation
Military
History
Modern Communications
Communications
Money
History
of Money from Ancient Times to the Present
Time Travel for a
Dollar: The Pyramid
Monorail System
RONALD
J. RILEY: Automated electrified monorail systems
Motion Picture
Motion
Pictures, History of
The Film 100 -
Top 100 People in History of Movies
Cinema
History: Significant Events
Motion Picture
Collections
See How
Movies were made - Eadweard James Muybridge
AFI's
100 Years...100 Movies
Mountaineering
MOUNTAINEERING:
Mountains and Their Conquerors
Motorcycle
History
Of The Motorcycle
Motorcycle Online:
Virtual Museum
History of
the Harley-Davidson Motorcycle
Harley-Davidson:
Company - Background and History
"N"
"O"
Olympic Games
History Of The
Olympics
The
History of the Olympic Games
Olympics
history
Sports
A to Z: Modern Pentathlon: History
The
Myths Surrounding the Olympic Games
"P"
Pacemaker
Wilson
Greatbatch: Medical Cardiac Pacemaker
Wilson
Greatbatch: The implantable cardiac pacemaker battery
Paper
Princeton
Economic Institute history of paper
The (Not So
Short) History of Paper Boats
The
History of Paper Cutting
The Outlaw
Press - Parchment Making - Intro
History
Of Paper
Paper Bag - Square Bottomed
Margaret
Knight: Prolific Inventor
Pasta
History
of Pasta
Pencil
History of
the Pencil
The Pencil
Page
Pencils of the Fur
Trade
Penicillin
Andrew
J. Moyer: Method for Production of Penicillin
John
C. Sheehan: Synthesized penicillin
Personal Computers
Steve
Jobs & Steve Wozniak
Phonograph
Thomas
Alva Edison
Early Recorded Sounds and
Wax Cylinders
Photography
A History of
Photography
Photographing History:
Fred J. Maroon and the Nixon Years, 1970-1974
Physics
Center for History of
Physics Home Page
Pirates & Piracy
Pirate
Ghosts
The
History of Piracy: Introduction
Pizza
A History of
Pizza
Slice of
Italy-History of Pizza
Pizza
HQ History 201 Class
Plastic
Leo Hendrik
Baekeland
History
of ChEn: Timeline
Famous
Belgians - Leo Hendrik Baekeland
Some
American Inventions
What
Americans Owe to Inventors
The
American Experience/TR Timeline
Modern
Terms
Bakelite
Event
Chronology1909
Mizzou
Magic - Wrapped in Plastic
Biotechnology
and Patents
Plumbing
History
of Plumbing
Polar Caps
Polar
Cap -- History
Printing
Printing:
History and Development
"Q"
Quilts in America
Quilts
and Quiltmaking in America 1978-1996
"R"
Radio
Ernst
F. W. Alexanderson: Radio
William
P. Lear: Car Radio
The Museum of Television
& Radio
Radio
Archive
Old Time Radio -
Radio Days: A Soundbite History
Media Statistics
Old Time Radio Programs
Guide Table of Contents
Marconi
in 1896
TELEVISION AND RADIO
NEWS RESEARCH
Broadcasting
History
Media and
Communication Studies Site
Basics of
Radio Astronomy
Refrigeration
The
History of Sealed Refrigeration Systems
The
History and Evolution of the Refrigerator
Design
Evolution
RollerBlades®
Scott Olson
Biography
Rowbike Total Body Fitness
Machine
Rollerblade.com
RollerCoasters
Roller Coasters: Inventing
the Scream Machine
"S"
Salt
History
Of Salt
History "When it rains
it pours" logo
SALT [NaCl]
made the world go round
SALT ARCHIVE
- Why
History
of Salt and its Production
Science
History
of Science Society Web Page
A
Beginner's Guide to Research in the History of Science
Physics
Resources Resources
Science Technology & Medicine
WWWVL
History of Science, Technology and Medine
Scotch Tape
History
of Scotch Tape
Richard
Drew: Inventor of Scotch Tape
History
of 3M Corporation
Sewing Machine
A Brief History
of the Sewing Machine
Howe's
Sewing Machine
Sewing
Machine Museum
The Spirit
of Enterprise
Silly Putty
James
Wright, Peter Hodgson
Skateboard
History
of THE SKATEBOARD
Slinky
Slinky
History + Slinky Links
The History
of Toys: The Slinky
Snowboarding
History
of Snowboarding
ThinkQuest
- History of Snowboarding
Soccer
Journal
of Soccer History
A
SHORT HISTORY OF SOCCER
Time
Line of Soccer
National Soccer Hall of
Fame
Interactive
World Cup History Pages
World Cup Hall of Fame
The US Soccer
History Archives
Soap
A History of
Soapmaking
Space Exploration
History
of the Space Shuttle
Waiting
for ET to phone Earth
Earthlings
Unite: Unity International Space Station
Electric
Currents from Space--History
Space
Weather
From
Stargazers to Starships
History
of Space Exploration
European
Borders: History Of Space
SpaceZone: Space
History
Space Shuttle
History
of the Space Shuttle
Statue of Liberty Designer
Frédéric-Auguste
Bartholdi: Designer of
Steam Locomotive
Steam
Locomotive Designer
Steel
Bessemer
Steel
Sir
Henry Bessemer
Stop Light
Garrett Augustus
Morgan, Sr
Are
Traffic Signals Really a Cure-All? - First Traffic Light
Chapter
4 - Traffic Signals
Historic
Signals
Submarines
David
Bushnell: The Turtle
Sun
The
Sun -- History
Discovery
of the Sunspot Cycle
Carrington's
Flare
The
Sun's Corona
The
Sun
"T"
Tango
History of
the Tango
Tape Recorder
Marvin
Camras: Method and Means of Magnetic Recording
Teddy Bear
The
Birth of the Teddy Bear & The History
Teflon
Roy J.
Plunkett: Tetrafluoroethylene Polymers
Telegraph
Alexander
Graham Bell: Telegraphy
Samuel
F. B. Morse: Telegraph Signals
Guglielmo
Marconi: Transmitting Electrical Signals
Alexander Graham Bell
Institute
Telescope
KIE
Evidence: The History of the Telescope
History
of the Telescope
Television
History
Television
Philo
Taylor Farnsworth: Television System
Louis
W. Parker: Television Receiver
The Farnsworth
Chronicles
The Pre-History
of Television
History
Of Televison Technology
The Museum of Television
& Radio
Toilet Paper
History
of Plumbing-Toilet Paper Invented
America's
First Toilet Paper Shortage
HighWired.com:
Article
History
of Public Toilets plumbing world
Rave
Toys
NativeTech:
Games & Toys
History of
Toys
Toys
of the 15th to 17th century
History
of Toys Quiz
Toys from
the Sixties
Discovery
Online - Toys Were Us
Atari
Transistor
John Bardeen:
invented building block for all modern electronics
Innovations:
1947
Transportation
Pre-Industrial
Revolutions Transportation
Transportation
- Mid to Late Nineteenth Century America
Transportation
- Late nineteenth century to WW2
Transportation
- Post WW2 America
Transportation
Links
Encyclopedia
Smithsonian: Transportation History
National Museum of
American History
A
Brief History of Transportation in Minnesota
Chronological
History of Transportation
History of
Transportation
Hungarians
in the History of Transportation
Substance
of Development: 1870--1920
Tupperware
EARL S.
TUPPER PAPERS
EARL S.
TUPPER PAPERS, ca. 1914-1982 - Main
Tuxedo
Pierre
Lorillard IV: The Tuxedo
T.V. Remote Control
ROBERT
ADLER
Typewriters
A
Brief History of Typewriters
"U"
UFO's
Greatest Conspiracies of
all time
Roswell
The Black Vault: GOvernment
papers on UFO's
UFO/CIA
Files
Uncle Sam
Samuel
Wilson: The Real Uncle Sam
"V"
Velcro® - George de Mestral
VELCRO ®
Inventor: George de Mestral
George de Mestral
- 1907-1990 Patent No. 2,717,437
Zippers
and Velcro
"W"
Waffles
One With
Waffles
Washing Machine
Washing
Machines - History
history of
washing machines
Wine & Winemaking
Wine
Education Site - History of Wine
History
of Wine
History of
Winemaking
The history
of wine making in Crete
AvocaWines
WINE @ UC Davis Dept.
of Viticulture
Written Word
History
of the Written Word
"X"
X-Rays
Robert
S. Ledley: Diagnostic X-Ray Systems
William
D. Coolidge: X-Ray Vacuum Tube
"Y"
YoYo
The
History of the YoYo
Land
of YoYo
"Z"
Zipper
Whitcomb
Judson: The Zipper
Zippers
and Velcro
TeacherNet: Isn't he cute?
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