Pathfinders Inventions and Inventors Subject headings, keywords Inventions, inventors, technology Dewey Numbers 391, 608.7, 609, 609.2, 621.383, 623.82, 629.13092, 920.02, 920.093, 920.2, 993.0092   Reference: Britannica Encyclopedias, World Book Encyclopedias, Oxford Junior encyclopedias, Encarta, Information file (John Britten)  On-line databases and websites: Britannica Online http://www.tki.org.nz/r/epic/      login on the left side of the page under the EPIC heading     login - darfieldhs, password: 22darfieldhs.      Scroll down to blue highlighted links - 'Britannica online school edition K-12'     or the 'Discovering Collection' (also biographies and science plus more)  Choose either Primary, Secondary or High School levels or 'search all levels' Check out these new search engines: Carrot cluster - http://search.carrot2.org/stable/search Searchy pants - http://searchypants.com/ And some good older ones: http://duckduckgo.com/ http://www.refseek.com/ Websites for specific topics: http://digitalnz.org/ - has audio/video clips and photographs of NZ inventors & inventions http://www.howstuffworks.com/search.php?terms=inventors http://www.packagingtoday.com/introplasticexplosion.htm  plastic/polythene/Tupperware http://inventors.about.com/od/qrstartinventors/a/Q.htm world wide listing http://www.enchantedlearning.com http://www.ideafinder.com/features/classact/women.htm http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_New_Zealand_inventors www.nzedge.com - for a list of NZ inventors http://www.hamiltonjet.co.nz/about_hamiltonjet/sir_william_hamilton http://motorcyclemuseum.org/halloffame/hofbiopage.asp?id=381 - tribute to Burt Munro http://www.achievement.org/autodoc/page/hil0bio-1 - Sir Edmund Hillary http://www.rutherford.org.nz - Sir Ernest Rutherford http://christchurchcitylibraries.com/Kids/Inventions/Inventors/