Inventors
Internet Resources
National Inventors Hall of Fame
http://www.invent.org/index.asp
Book Resources
ASIMOV, Isaac. Asimov's Biographical Encyclopedia of
Science and Technology. RR 925/A83
BRODIE, James Michael. Created Equal: the lives and ideas of Black American innovators. RR 925/Brodie J
DAUMAS, Maurice, editor. A History of Technology & Invention; Progress Through the Ages vol 1&2.. RR609/History
(DoAB) Dictionary of American Biography. RR920
(DoNB) Dictionary of National Biography. RR920
(DoSB) Dictionary of Scientific Biography. RR920
DYSON, James. A History of Great Inventions. 609/Dyson J
HOPPER, Meredith. Everyday Inventions. 609/Hopper
James, Peter and Nick Thorpe. Ancient Inventions. RR 609/J28
Notable American Women. RR920
PETROSKI, Henry. The Evolution of Useful Things: How everyday artifacts from forks and pins to paper clips and zippers - came to be as they are. 609/Petroski H
(PWo20) Prominent Women of the 20th Century. RR920
RICHARDS, Norman. Dreamers & Doers: Inventors Who Changed the World. 609.22/Richards N
VARE, Ethlie Ann and Greg Ptacek. Mothers of Invention: From the Bra to the Bomb, Forgotten Women and their Unforgettable Ideas. 609.22/Vare E
(WB) World Book Encyclopedia 2003. RR 031/World.
Inventors and their Inventions
| Name | Invention | Book |
| Virginia Apgar (Woman) | Apgar test | PWo20 |
| Alexander Graham Bell | telephone | |
| Clarence Birdseye | frozen food | DoAB |
| Melville Bissell | carpet sweeper | |
| Louis Braille | braille printing | |
| Giovanni Branca | steam turbine | |
| Vannevar Bush | analog computer | DoSB |
| Edmund Cartwright | power loom | DoNB |
| Josephine Cochran (Woman) | ||
| Samuel Colt | revolver | DoAB |
| Alexander Cummings | flush toilet | HORAN, Julie L. The Porcelain God : a social history of the toilet. 696.182/Horan J |
| Rudolf Diesel | diesel-fueled internal combustion engine | |
| George Eastman | paper-strip photographic film | RICHARDS |
| Gabriel Fahrenheit | mercury thermometer | |
| Benjamin Franklin | Lightening Rod | FLEMING, Candace. Ben Franklin's Almanac: Being a True Account of the Good Gentleman's Life. Biog/Franklin B |
| Dr. Richard Gatling | machine gun | DoAB |
| Robert H. Goddard | liquid-fueled rockets | |
| Charles Goodyear | rubber vulcanization | RICHARDS |
| Johannes Gutenberg | printing press with metal movable type | |
| Elias Howe | sewing machine | DoAB |
| W.L. Judson | zipper | |
| Margaret Knight (Woman) |
bag making machine | Notable American Women |
| Lewis H. Latimer (African American) |
electric lighting pioneer | |
| Jean Lenoir | Internal Combustion Engine | WB ASIMOV, ISAAC. Asimov's Biographical Encyclopedia of Science and Technology. RR 925/A83 |
| Sybilla Masters (Woman) | corning milling process | VARE
|
| Jan Matzeliger (African American) |
shoe lasting machine | BRODIE |
| Elijah Mccoy (African American) |
lubricator for steam engines | BRODIE |
| Pierre Michaux |
Bicycle | BALLANTINE, Richard and Richard
Grant. The Ultimate Bicycle Book. 629.227/B19 SARIG, Roni. The Everything Bicycle Book 796.6/Sarig |
| Benjamin Montgomery (African American) | shallow water propeller | BRODIE |
| Garrett A. Morgan (African American) |
traffic signal | BRODIE |
| Samuel Morse | telegraph | DoAB |
| Thomas Newcomen | steam engine | DoNB |
| Alfred Nobel | dynamite | |
| Blaise Pascal | adding machine | |
| Louis Pasteur | pasteurization | |
| John Pemberton | Coca Cola | WATERS, Pat. Coca-Cola: An Illustrated History 338.76/W34 |
| Norbert Rillieux (African American) |
sugar cane processing system | BRODIE |
| Isaac Singer | sewing machine | |
| Samuel Slocum | stapler | DoAB |
| Amanda Theodosa Jones (Woman) | canning process | VARE |
| Jethro Tull | seed drill | DoNB |
| Alessandro Volta | battery | DoSB |
| Robert Watson-Watt | radar | |
| James Watt | improved steam engine | DoNB |
| Eli Whitney | cotton gin | |
| Granville T. Woods (African American) |
railway telegraph | BRODIE |