Enchanted Learning
Enchanted Learning: Zoom Inventors and Inventions
This site has an alphabetized list of inventions and inventors throughout history. You can also explore by era, topic or nationality.
University of Groningen
American History: Outlines: Inventions and Resource Development
Outline of the burgeoning inventions and discoveries that characterized a second industrial revolution in the U.S. during the later half of the 19th Century.
A&E Television
History.com: Inventions & Science
Inventions from the telephone to the Model T and the computer have defined human history, and inventors like Leonardo da Vinci, Nikola Tesla, Thomas Edison, Eli Whitney and Alexander Graham Bell have transformed our society.
South Carolina Educational Television
Know It All Media: Nasa: The Invention Timeline
An interactive timeline of notable inventions and inventors from the 19th century to the present.
University of California
University of California: Lloyd Augustus Hall: Chemist and Inventor
Brief summary of Hall's inventions and contributions to science.
National Inventors Hall of Fame
National Inventors Hall of Fame: Virtual Tour
Take a virtual tour of the National Inventors Hall of Fame to learn about America's rich history of invention and innovation. Here you will find the museum's online exhibits and information about America's many inventors and the products...
OpenStax
Open Stax: Industrialization and Big Business, 1870 1900: Inventors of the Age
In the Industrial Revolution, new products and inventions spurred the growth of big business. Learn about some of these inventions and the people who created them, for example, Alexander Graham Bell and Thomas Edison.
Smithsonian Institution
Lemelson Center: Thomas Edison's Inventive Life
This site is a complete resource for learning about Edison's life, his inventions, and electricity. If you like experimenting, there are instructions included for how to make your own light bulb. Good photos.
National Inventors Hall of Fame
National Inventors Hall of Fame Inductees
The National Inventors Hall of Fame (NIHF) recognizes the enduring legacies of exceptional U.S. patent holders. Inventors not only create new inventions, but they can create new industries that employ millions of people. Their...
National Women’s History Museum
National Women's History Museum: Inventive Women Part 1
Learners will learn about female inventors and their contributions to American technology.
Louisiana Department of Education
Louisiana Doe: Louisiana Believes: Social Studies: Grade 4: Inventions and the Great Plains
Read and study the sources about inventions from the late 1800s. As you read the three sources, think about the effects that the inventions had on the American economy.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: You, Too, Can Be an Inventor!
How have inventions changed the world? This unit focuses on the importance, the process and the creativity involved in inventing. Through the study of inventions and inventors, students learn how inventions are created and the...
Have Fun With History
Have Fun With History: Science and Invention
Module with links to resources and videos on science, inventions and technology of the 19th and 20th Centuries that changed the course of American history.
Alberta Online Encyclopedia
Alberta Online Encyclopedia: Alberta Inventors and Inventions: The Inventors
Who are some of Alberta's significant persons in the area of inventions? This site by the Heritage Community Foundation provides categories, such as Agriculture, Transportation, Health, Home, and Sports, in which famous Alberta inventors...
Other
Time Toast: Famous Inventions
An interactive timeline featuring inventions discovered between the late nineteenth century and the beginning of the twenty-first century.
Other
Little Inventors: Ingenious Ideas!
Here you will find examples of inventions created by children. They submit their ideas along with drawings and plans. Many of these are made into real objects and posted for the inventors to see what they would look like in real life....
Alberta Online Encyclopedia
Alberta Online Encyclopedia: Alberta Inventors and Inventions: The Inventions
What are some of the key inventions by Albertans? This site by the Heritage Community Foundation highlights many Albertan's significant inventions and has categorized them to make it accessible for learners.
Alberta Online Encyclopedia
Alberta Online Encyclopedia: Alberta Inventors and Inventions: Laurie Tandrup
Laurie Tandrup invented two unique car seats--the 'Travelbud' and 'The Butterfly'. Learn about her inventions and how they came about on this site by the Heritage Community Foundation.
Alberta Online Encyclopedia
Alberta Online Encyclopedia: Alberta Inventors and Inventions: Walter Makowecki
'Cheemo Frozen Perogy's' were invented by Walter Makowecki--read about the machine that inspired this invention and how it changed Makowecki's life forever.
Alberta Online Encyclopedia
Alberta Online Encyclopedia: Alberta Inventors and Inventions: Andrew Briosi
Andrew Briosi created nearly 150 inventions in his life, one of which was the "Beet Lifter". Learn about this invention, and about Mr. Briosi through excerpts from his autobiography.
Alberta Online Encyclopedia
Alberta Online Encyclopedia: Alberta Inventors and Inventions: Highmark Renewables
Can you recover usable bio gas from cow manure? Read about Highmark Renewables and how they have invented the 'Integrated Manure Utilization System' to do just that!
Alberta Online Encyclopedia
Alberta Online Encyclopedia: Alberta Inventors and Inventions: George Clynch
Read the biography of George Clynch and learn about his 'Laser Digitizer System' that is designed to build socket pieces on custom prosthetics.
Alberta Online Encyclopedia
Alberta Online Encyclopedia: Alberta Inventors and Inventions: Bernie Stene and Lional Desmarais
Learn about Bernie Stene and Lional Desmarais's "Rail Mount Plowing System", a method to lay thousands of kilometres of the cable without disrupting railway traffic.
Alberta Online Encyclopedia
Alberta Online Encyclopedia: Alberta Inventors and Inventions: George Daugela
Learn about the "Vertec grain dryer" invented by George Daugela, member of the Alberta Agriculture Hall of Fame.