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PBS

Pbs: American Experience: Special Feature: Forgotten Inventors

For Students 9th - 10th
This fascinating site from PBS features seven inventions from the 19th and 20th centuries, along with information about the men and women who created them. Click on one of the small photos to learn more, or scroll down through the...
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Other

Pioneers, Inc.: Black Scientists and Inventors

For Students 9th - 10th
Find brief descriptions of the inventions of many African-American inventors in many fields in the 19th century.
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Other

American Artifacts: The Imaginative Inventor

For Students 9th - 10th
Just for fun. A website with a list of strange inventions by would-be entrepreneurs. Click on any to see a picture and description of the device.
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University of Groningen

American History: Outlines: Inventions and Resource Development

For Students 9th - 10th
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.
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South Carolina Educational Television

Know It All Media: Nasa: The Invention Timeline

For Students 9th - 10th
An interactive timeline of notable inventions and inventors from the 19th century to the present.
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PBS

Pbs: American Experience: Technology Timeline 1750 1990

For Students 3rd - 8th
Did you ever wonder who invented something, and when it was invented? Go to this interactive timeline that highlights inventors/inventions from 1750-1990. Click on the topic to read a brief paragraph about that invention.
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ClassFlow

Class Flow: Who Am I?

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
[Free Registration/Login Required] This is a review of famous inventors and people of the Second Industrial Revolution. Activotes questions are included. There is a citation for a United Streaming video clip at the end that could be...
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Curated OER

Black Inventor Online Museum: Andrew Beard

For Students Pre-K - 1st
A short biography of Andrew Beard, whose invention improved the safety of railroads in the 19th century.
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Have Fun With History

Have Fun With History: Science and Invention

For Students 9th - 10th
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.
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Curated OER

Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Count Rumford

For Students 9th - 10th
Sir Benjamin Thompson, Count Rumford (26 March 1753 - 21 August 1814) was an Anglo-American physicist and inventor whose challenges to established physical theory were part of the 19th century revolution in thermodynamics.