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Enchanted Learning

Enchanted Learning: Zoom Inventors and Inventions

For Students 3rd - 8th
This site has an alphabetized list of inventions and inventors throughout history. You can also explore by era, topic or nationality.
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Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Comparing & Contrasting Inventors

For Teachers 1st - 3rd Standards
What do inventors have that are alike? How are they different? Why do they invent? Learning about them may inspire you to invent new technology! In this lesson, students will compare and contrast key details in two texts on the topic of...
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Alberta Online Encyclopedia

Alberta Online Encyclopedia: Alberta Inventors and Inventions: Charles Sherwood Noble

For Students 9th - 10th
One of Alberta's greater known inventors, Charles Noble, is explored through his biography and his impact on soil erosion, the invention of the "Noble Blade" and the history of Nobleford, a community in southern Alberta named for him.
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Alberta Online Encyclopedia

Alberta Online Encyclopedia: Alberta Inventors and Inventions: Raymond

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn about Raymond "Sugar Ray" Lemieux's synthesis of carbohydrates as you read about his life and his invention of "Synthetic Sugar".
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Alberta Online Encyclopedia

Alberta Online Encyclopedia: Alberta Inventors and Inventions: Elias Bjarni

For Students 9th - 10th
Elias Bjarni "Ole" Olson is credited for using the first coloured ice in a curling game and inventing the standard rubber curling hack. Read his biography and explore some of Olson's other achievements.
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Alberta Online Encyclopedia

Alberta Online Encyclopedia: Alberta Inventors and Inventions: Karl Clark

For Students 9th - 10th
Karl Clark and his inventions in the area of the oilfields 'Method for Separating Bituminous Sands' and 'Royalite Oil' are highlighted in this biography.
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Alberta Online Encyclopedia

Alberta Online Encyclopedia: Alberta Inventors and Inventions: Andrew Briosi

For Students 9th - 10th
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.
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Alberta Online Encyclopedia

Alberta Online Encyclopedia: Alberta Inventors and Inventions: George Clynch

For Students 9th - 10th
Read the biography of George Clynch and learn about his 'Laser Digitizer System' that is designed to build socket pieces on custom prosthetics.
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Enchanted Learning

Enchanted Learning: Inventors & Inventions 1801 1850

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from Enchanted Learning presents several brief overviews of major early nineteenth century inventors and their inventions. The information is accessible by clicking on the corresponding link.
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Smithsonian Institution

Lemelson Center: Spark!lab: Inventor Profiles: Charlotte Cramer Sachs

For Students 3rd - 8th
Charlotte Cramer Sachs held the patents on many inventions. She invented quick baking products such as Joy muffin mixes, as well as accessories for dogs and musical games. One invention was a precursor to the retractable dog leash. A...
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Library of Congress

Loc: Everyday Mysteries: Who "Invented" the Tv Dinner?

For Students 9th - 10th
Ever wonder who "invented" the TV dinner? This article provides a discussion of the people and companies involved in the creation of complete frozen meals starting in the 1940s and ending in 1954 when Swanson's frozen meals appeared and...
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Discovery Education

Discovery Education: Inventors and Inventions 1

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students research and explore the importance of two inventions that people use every day: sticky notes and Velcro.
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Science Struck

Science Struck: 41 Smart Inventions of the 1920s

For Students 3rd - 8th
Provides descriptions of many well-known innovations that were invented in the 1920s.
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Science Struck

Science Struck: 8 Albert Einstein Inventions That Impacted the World

For Students 9th - 10th
Describes the refrigerator invented by Einstein and many of his discoveries in physics.
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Science Struck

Science Struck: Famous Scientists and Their Inventions

For Students 9th - 10th
A long list of scientists and their world-changing inventions.
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Smithsonian Institution

Lemelson Center: Invention Process

For Students 9th - 10th
Through a number of articles, stories and research we learn about the invention process, including communicating your ideas, staying resilient when things go wrong.
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Great Idea Finder

The Great Idea Finder: Qwerty Keyboard Invention

For Students 9th - 10th
Where did the idea of the QWERTY keyboard come from? Read about typewriter inventor, Christopher Sholes, and how he came up with his idea of a new keyboard design way back in 1875. Additional links to related sites, fascinating facts,...
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Other

History of Telephone Sets: Graham Bell Invents the Telephone

For Students 9th - 10th
A short summary of how Alexander Graham Bell (1847-1922) came to invent the telephone.
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Other

Ncr: James Ritty, Inventor of the Cash Register, 1879

For Students 9th - 10th
An interesting biography of James Ritty and an account of how he invented the cash register. Included are pictures of his designs and the prototypes.
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Then Again

Then Again: Web Chron: Alexander Graham Bell Invents the Telephone

For Students 9th - 10th
This site describes how Bell started out by seeking to help the deaf and ended up with a telephone. It gives brief information about his family and how he came to invent the telephone.
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Other

History of Recording Technology: Edison's Invention of the Phonograph

For Students 9th - 10th
Click through the pages on this site to read about Edison's development of the phonograph as well as a discussion of Edison's rivals who were seeking to develop a similar product. Read about the changes in the ways to record sound as the...
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Mit: Invention of the Week: Ernesto E. Blanco: Stair Climbing Wheelchair

For Students 9th - 10th
Read about MIT teacher and practitioner Ernesto Blanco, inventor of the stair-climbing wheelchair. This article provides details on the inventor's life, his career outside of MIT, and his inventions that continue to help the handicapped...
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Young Inventors

For Students Pre-K - 1st
In this stills collage adapted from the National Science Teachers Association/Craftsman Young Inventors Awards, see several inventions by students in grades 4-7 and read about some of the challenges they faced during the design process.
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Mit: Inventor of the Week: Frederick M. Jones

For Students 9th - 10th
Inventor Frederick M. Jones is featured in this brief biography for his lasting contributions to the refrigerator and cinema industries.

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