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University of Florida

Baldwin Library: A History of Wonderful Inventions by Henry G. Bohn

For Students 5th - 8th
This is an online photocopy of the original text of the children's book A History of Wonderful Inventions by Henry G. Bohn(1861), a history of inventors and inventions such as the compass, gunpowder, clocks, printing, and more.
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Mit: Invention of the Week: Forrest Bird: Medical Respirator

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn about the inventor of "the first reliable low-cost, mass-produced medical respirator," Forrest Bird. This article overviews his education and career, the development of the respirator, and the effects the respirator has had on the...
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Rutgers University

Thomas Edison Papers: Latimer's Patents

For Students 9th - 10th
Find a list of patents issued to African-American inventor, Lewis Latimer, to him individually or with another inventor. Clicking on the invention takes you a diagram of the invention as well as its description submitted to the U.S....
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National Inventors Hall of Fame

National Inventors Hall of Fame: Baruch S. Blumberg: Vaccine for Hepatitis B

For Students 9th - 10th
This site provides biographical information on Baruch S. Blumberg, inventor of the Hepatitis B vaccine.
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Calisphere: University of California Libraries

University of California: Calisphere: 1900 1940s: The Rise of Technology

For Students 9th - 10th
Primary source photographs depicting new technologies and communications at the turn of the 20th century and how lives changed as a result.
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National Humanities Center

National Humanities Center: America in Class: Becoming Modern: America in the 1920s: Machine

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Primary resource material on the way innovatons and machines have modernized and changed America in the 1920s and beyond.
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Library of Congress

Loc: Alexander Graham Bell Family Papers

For Students 9th - 10th
All the primary source documents of the Graham Bell Family can be found at this Library of Congress site. An exhaustive site that is interesting to peruse.

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