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Inventors : at The Google Cultural Institute
http://www.google.com/culturalinstitute/#!browse:f.text=Inventors
Inventors : at The Google Cultural Institute
The Google Cultural Institute helps preserve and promote culture online
With a team of dedicated engineers, Google is building tools that make it simple to tell the stories of our diverse cultural heritage and make them accessible worldwide.
We have created this site to provide a visually rich and interactive online experience for telling cultural stories in new ways. Discover exhibits by expert curators, find artifacts, view photographs, read original manuscripts, watch videos, and more.
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Inventions at MIT : MaKey MaKey
http://www.makeymakey.com/
MaKey MaKey
An Invention Kit for Everyone
We believe that everyone is creative, inventive, and imaginative. We believe that everyone can create the future and change the world. So we have dedicated our lives to making easy-to-use invention kits.
Before we created MaKey MaKey we worked on other creative tools and invention kits such as Drawdio, Singing Fingers, and Scratch.
What Can I Make?
That's up to you! First, load up a computer program or any webpage.

Jay Silver: Hack a banana, make a keyboard!

GLOG : Benjamin Franklin
http://rachelwilloughby.edu.glogster.com/benjamin-franklin/

The concept of innovation
http://openlearn.open.ac.uk/course/view.php?id=2898
The concept of innovation
Open University (UK) free online access to course materials. (3 hours)
This unit will examine some of the key ideas connected with innovation in organisations. You will be introduced to some important concepts which are used to analyse innovation, in particular the distinction...

The New Inventors (ABC TV Series)
http://www.abc.net.au/tv/newinventors/
The New Inventors (ABC TV Series)
Since humans rolled out the first wheel we have been tinkering with new inventions. And if necessity is the mother of invention, then Australia is a very busy maternity ward.
They say Australia has more inventors, innovators and designers per head of population than anywhere else in the world.
So join The New Inventors in a fascinating search for Australia's most amazing inventions and trend-setting designs.
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Inventions and Innovation : Videos and PowerPoints
http://inventionvideos.blogspot.com/
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Prototype Online: Inventive Voices
http://invention.smithsonian.org/video/default.aspx
Prototype Online: Inventive Voices
A twice-monthly podcast from the Smithsonian's Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation.
Listen to interviews and lectures of renowned inventors and innovators.

The Inventors Workshop
http://www.teachersfirst.com/unitlist.cfm
The Inventor's Workshop is an introduction to major inventors of the Industrial Revolution in the United States and England.
There are profiles of more than a dozen inventors, an inventor's quiz, and a list of other resources dealing with inventors and inventions.
Useful as a classroom or independent study resource for upper elementary or middle school students, this unit grew out of a winning lesson from one of 'Teacherfirst' lesson plan contests.

Free Patent Searching
http://www.freepatentsonline.com
Free patent searching of US patents, US published applications, European patents, and more. Free PDF downloading and RSS feeds of new patents also.

Inventors and Inventions
http://www.42explore2.com/invent.htm
Inventors and Inventions
To invent something means to create a new device, come up with a new process, or to make a new product. Invention is closely related to, but different than discovery. A discovery is the first recognition of something that already existed in nature. Invention is the creation of something that has never existed before.

Vintage Reprints- Reproduced patent artwork
http://vintage-reprints.com
Vintage-Reprints Historical Patent Artwork Print Museum!interesting patent prints.
Try our easy to use category invention index and free full-text search tool that helps antique collectors, history enthusiasts, and genealogy searchers find their patent on any topic or inventor worldwide.
Feel free to browse over 10,000 full image patents and retro clipart in our online museum gallery.

The Lemelson Center
http://invention.smithsonian.org/home/
The Lemelson Center
The Jerome and Dorothy Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation was founded in 1995 at the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American History through a generous gift from the Lemelson Foundation.
The Lemelson Center? mission:
- To document, interpret, and disseminate information about invention and innovation
- To encourage inventive creativity in young people

Library of Congress - Inventions
http://www.loc.gov/rr/scitech/selected-internet/inventions.html
Library of Congress - Inventions materials, links and information.

Kid Inventors
http://inventors.about.com/library/weekly/aa083197.htm
Kid Inventors

Famous Inventions : A to Z
http://inventors.about.com/library/bl/bl12.htm
Famous Inventions : A to Z
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Inventors and Inventions : 4 2 Explore
http://eduscapes.com/42explore/invent.htm
This web project provides "four to explore" for each topic.
On each page you'll find definitions, activities, 4 good starting points, and many more links and resources for the thematic topic.
In some cases, we've listed more than four websites on a particular topic. For example, we might provide a few for younger readers and others for more advanced learners.
Each school, classroom, and teacher is unique. As such we didn't try to provide specific activities for particular grade levels. Instead we suggest that teachers explore each link, then design specific, developmentally appropriate activities such as discussion questions, small group activities, or webquests to fit the needs of their curriculum.
The links on this site are safe for children.
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Inventors at the Learning Network
http://teachervision.com/tv/theme/Inventions
Explore inventors and inventions with your students to discover a world of unlimited possibilities.
Robert Fulton: Inventor | Samuel Morse | Mold Observation Chart | List of Inventions and Discoveries | Inventions: 1780-1870 | Understanding Penicillin and Mold | It's a Whatchamacallit! |

Inventors Museum
http://inventorsmuseum.com/
Welcome to the Inventors Online Museum! We built the museum site so that people could explore the world of invention and innovation.

National Inventors Hall of Fame
http://www.invent.org/
Welcome to the National Inventors Hall of Fame, a not-for-profit organization that aims to recognize inventors and invention everywhere, to promote creativity and to advance the spirit of innovation.