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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/