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Buckminster Fuller Institute: R. Buckminster Fuller, 1895 1983
An extensive biography of R. Buckminster Fuller, an inventor and a philosopher who devoted much of his time to devising practical solutions to the world's problems. There are many additional resources on the site, including information...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: John A. Dahlgren
Dahlgren was a naval officer and inventor. He invented the Dahlgren gun and wrote many books.
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Otis Boykin
Otis Boykin invented electronic control devices for guided missiles, IBM computers, and the control unit for a pacemaker.
PBS
Pbs the West: Joseph Farwell Glidden
Information about the Illinois farmer who improved fencing the plains that led to the demise of open-range cattle ranching. Glidden is credited with the invention of barbed wire.
Discovery Education
Discovery Education: 3 M Young Scientist Lab: Travel Through Time
Travel through the decades to learn about the innovations that shape your life. Use the Decade Navigator below to start exploring. Transport yourself through the last 100 years to meet the innovations that have shaped our world.
Great Idea Finder
The Great Idea Finder: Computer Mouse
A short article about the computer mouse and the inventor, Douglas Engelbart.
National High Magnetic Field Laboratory
Magnet Academy: Lee De Forest
American inventor Lee De Forest was a pioneer of radio and motion pictures. He received more than 300 patents over the course of his lifetime, the most important of which was for a three-electrode vacuum tube, or triode, that he called...
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Westinghouse Electric Co.: George Westinghouse
A brief biography from the company that bears his name. George Westinghouse was a prolific inventor, and this biography recounts his many inventions, beginning with the air brake which greatly increased safety on the railroads.
University of St. Andrews (UK)
University of St. Andrews: Sir David Brewster
This biography on inventor David Brewster discusses his accomplishments, including his writings, and his invention of the kaleidoscope and the stereoscope.
Energy for Sustainable Development
Esd Bulgaria: Kids & Energy: Energy Pioneers: Gertrude Elion (1918 1999)
A profile of Gertrude Belle Elion, an American biochemist and pharmacologist and a Nobel Prize winner. She struggled to find her place in the male-dominated scientific world, and went on to become the first woman to be inducted into the...
University of Houston
University of Houston: Engines of Our Ingenuity: Earlier Than We Think
This podcast explains how Vannevar Bush, once a computing pioneer, had become America's leading science advisor.
Famous Scientists
Famous Scientists: Nicholas Culpeper
Learn about Nicholas Culpeper's contributions to the medical field in this article about his life.
Famous Scientists
Famous Scientists: Randy Pausch
Learn about the life of Randy Pausch in this article.
Famous Scientists
Famous Scientists: Ronald Fisher
Read the biography of Ronald Fisher in this article.
Famous Scientists
Famous Scientists: Salim Ali
Learn about the "bird man", Salim Ali in this biographical article.
My Hero Project
My Hero: Philo T. Farnsworth
"One of the more important inventors of the twentieth century," Philo T. Farnsworth invented the television. Use this site to learn about how he was inspired to create the television and why Farnsworth isn't always credited for his idea.
Mocomi & Anibrain Digital Technologies
Mocomi: Industrial Revolution Timeline
Learn what started the Industrial Revolution and its impact. Includes important inventions during the first industrial revolution and their inventors.
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Wikipedia: Natl Historic Landmarks in Massachusetts: Reginald A. Fessenden House
Reginald Fessenden (1866-1932) was an inventor who worked for a time in Thomas Edison's workshop. His most notable inventions made possible the transmission of audio sounds via radio waves, and included many other radio-related...
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Dr. Ericson holds firm to his beliefs that the valve was not invented as "a mere crook changing device." Dr. Ericson embraces the idea that the "co-inventors of the valve clearly intended to perfect the brass instruments by making them...
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Wikipedia: Nikola Tesla
An in-depth biography on inventor Nikola Tesla. Discusses his many inventions, his troubles with obsessive-compulsive disorder, and information on his multitude of patents.
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Guglielmo Marconi
(1874-1937) Italian inventor and Nobel Prize winner for his invention of wireless telegraphy.
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Dr. Benjamin Franklin
(1706-1790) United States diplomat, inventor, politician, and printer. Invented the Franklin stove, lighting rod and bifocal glasses. Served in the Constitutional Convention of 1787