Famous Inventors
- Archimedes
- Babbage, Charles
- Baird, John Logie
- Bell, Alexander Graham
- Berners-Lee, Tim
- Braille, Louis
- Carver, George Washington
- Colt, Samuel
- Curie, Marie
- Cristofori, Bartolomeo
- Da Vinci, Leonardo
- Daguerre, Louis
- Eastman, George
- Edison, Thomas
- Faraday, Michael
- Ford, Henry
- Franklin, Benjamin
- Fulton, Robert
- Galilei, Galileo
- Gates, Bill
- Goddard, Robert
- Goodyear, Charles
- Gutenberg, Johann
- Kurzweil, Ray
- Lear, William Powell
- Lovelace, Ada
- Marconi, Guglielmo
- Mendeleyev, Dmitry
- Morse, Samuel
- Newton, Isaac
- Strauss, Levi
- Talbot, William Henry Fox
- Tesla, Nikola
- Volta, Alessandro
- Watt, James
- Whitney, Eli
- Wozniak, Stephen
- Wright, Orville and Wilbur
Web Resources
- African-American Inventors
- From Scholastic.com.
- Ben Franklin - Inquiring Mind
- A list of Franklin's inventions and information about this famous inventor. From PBS.
- Enchanted Learning: Famous Inventors and Inventions
- Encyclopedia Smithsonian: Engineering, Industry, and Invention
- Online exhibits, interactive activities, images, articles, and more. From the the Smithsonian Institution.
- Factmonster.com: Inventions
- Topics include: Children Inventors, Black Scientists and Inventors, Time Tangled Island: Thomas Edison, Great Inventions from Great Minds Quiz, A Guide to Inventions and Discoveries: From Adrenaline to the Zipper, Timeline of Everyday Inventions, Milestones in Transportation, Two Centuries of Railroading, Inventions By Women, The National Inventors Hall of Fame, Accidental Food Inventions.
- History and Bios - Famous Inventions and Famous Inventors
- Biographical articles and images of famous inventors and a history of their inventions. From About.com.
- Kids.gov: Inventors & Scientists
- Meet the Wright Brothers
- Learn about the invention of planes. From Scholastic.com.
