Web Sites (11 - 20 of 92): Inventions

Who Invented Peanut Butter? - George Washington Carver * -  It is not the style of clothes one wears, neither the kind of automobile one drives, nor the amount of money one has in the bank, that counts. These mean nothing. It is simply service that measures success.  -- George Washington Carver It i...
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Welcome to The Ark - A cultural centre for children * - Opened in 1995, The Ark is Europe’s only custom-designed cultural centre devoted exclusively to innovative arts programming for, by, with, and about children. Located in an award winning building in the heart of Temple Bar, Dublin’s cultural quarter, The...
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Inventing Entertainment: The Motion Pictures and Sound Recordings of the Edison Companies - Prolific inventor Thomas Alva Edison (1847-1931) has had a profound impact on modern life. In his lifetime, the "Wizard of Menlo Park" patented 1,093 inventions, including the phonograph, the kinetograph (a motion picture camera), and the kineto...
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Nikola Tesla: inventor, engineer, scientist * - Nikola Tesla (185k) The Serbian-American inventor, electrical engineer, and scientist July 9/10 , 1856 in Smiljan, Lika (Austria-Hungary) Died on January 7, 1943 in New York City, New York (USA) Inventions: a telephone repeater, rotating magnetic field p...
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Blout, Bessie - Inventor for the Disabled - Inventor's Online Museum * - - Inventor for the Disabled - History has very little to say about Bessie Blount, a trail blazing inventor whose efforts and inventions made the lives of soldiers disabled in World War II more independent. She fought against the crippling racism in her
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Goldberg, Rube * - read all about this famous Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist who drew pictures of complicated inventions to solve simple problems. You can also learn how to enter Rube Goldberg Machine Contests.
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Little Shop of Patent and Trademark Horrors * - see some of the spookiest, goulish inventions ever created...if you dare! From the U.S. Office of Patent and Trademarks.
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Important Historical Inventions and Inventors * -
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Sputnik Biographies: Robert H. Goddard * - learn about one of the most prominent pioneers of rocketry and spaceflight theory.
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Kelvin, Lord * - Compton's article on the man who developed the absolute temperature scale and patented over 70 inventions.
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