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Inventions/Inventors

These research suggestions and websites might help you with your research

Subject headings, keywords
Inventions, inventors, discoveries, technology, science

Dewey Numbers
500s,
600-609,681,71.3, 613, 629.22

  Reference:
Britannica Encyclopedias, World Book Encyclopedias, Oxford Junior encyclopedias, Encarta,
Information file

 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'

Encyclopedia type websites, which cover many topics:
http://howstuffworks.com  Explains how things work and their history
http://inventors.about.com/library/bl/bl12.htm An alphabetical list of inventions
This site gives the history and inventors of many inventions. Type your invention in the SEARCH box

Websites for specific topics:
http://www.arcytech.org/java/clock/clock_history.html clocks

http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/blvideo.htm  videos
http://health.howstuffworks.com/x-ray.htm  x-rays
http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/blrefrigerator.htm  refrigerators
http://www.penleyradararchives.org.uk/history/introduction.htm  radar
http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/brunel/A591545
   radar
http://www.wellcome.ac.uk/doc_WTX026108.html  antibiotics
http://www.packagingtoday.com/introplasticexplosion.htm
 plastic/polythene
http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/bllego.htm lego
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tractor#History tractors
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmetics  cosmetics
http://www.rpsgb.org.uk/informationresources/museum/exhibitions/exhibition04/musex04histcosm.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corset corsets
http://www.fashion-era.com/undergarments.htm underwear, including corsets, crinolines, bras
http://www.fieldmuseum.org/Chocolate/history.html chocolate
http://www.cadbury.co.uk/EN/CTB2003/about_chocolate/history_chocolate/aztecs.htm chocolate