Topics: Biography : Inventors
This category includes sites about individual explorers and groups of inventors. All sites are suitable for children and teens to read and use for enjoyment or for schoolwork. Biographies may be brief and sites may have several, perhaps connected by occupation, but the information contained should have the basic details, e.g., birth and death dates, some details of the life lived, major accomplishments, and so forth.
Babbage, Charles
This category lists pages and sites about the life of British mathematician Charles Babbage (1791-1871) who invented the first mechanical computing device.
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Banneker, Benjamin
This category lists pages and sites about the life of African-American farmer and self-taught mathematician Benjamin Banneker (1731-1806).
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Bell, Alexander Graham
Sites focus on the life of Bell.
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Braille, Louis
This category lists pages and sites about the life of Louis Braille (1809-1852). Blind himself and a teacher of the blind, Braille modified the Barbier "point writing" system which had previously been used for coded army messages and created an alphabet of embossed characters that allowed the blind to "read" with their fingertips.
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Eastman, George
Sites focus on the life of George Eastman (1854-1932), who transformed photography through his inventions.
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Edison, Thomas Alva
Sites focus on the life of Edison.
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Farnsworth, Philo
This category lists pages and sites about the life of American inventor Philo Taylor Farnsworth (1906-1971), who came up with the idea for the first television tube when he was just 14 years old.
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Goddard, Robert
This category lists pages and sites about the life of American engineer Robert Hutchings Goddard (1882-1945), known as the father of modern rocketry.
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Gutenberg, Johannes
Sites focus on the life of Johannes Gutenberg (1398-1468), who invented the printing press.
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Hunt, Walter
This category lists pages and sites about the American inventor, WalterHunt (1796 - 1859). Some of his invention include the fountain pen,sewing machine (1834), safety pin (1849), and a forerunner of the Winchesterrepeatingrifle.All sites listed here are suitable for children
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Kamen, Dean
Sites about the New Hampshire-based inventor of medical and technological devices.
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Marconi, Guglielmo
This category lists pages and site about the life of Guglielmo Marconi (1874-1937), the Italian engineer who invented the first practical radio-signaling system.
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McCoy, Elijah
This category lists pages and sites about the life of African-American inventor Elijah McCoy (1844 - 1929) who patented and sold more than 50 devices during his lifetime.
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Morgan, Garrett
This category lists pages and sites about the life of African-American inventor Garrett Augustus Morgan (1877-1963) who life-saving creations included the traffic signal and the gas mask.
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Watt, James
This category lists pages and sites about the life of Scottish inventor and mechanical engineer James Watt (1736-1819), best known for his improvements of the steam engine.
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Whitney, Eli
This category lists pages and sites about American inventor Eli Whitney (1765-1825), best known for his invention of the cotton gin.
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Wright, Wilbur and Orville
This category lists pages and sites about the lives of Wilbur (1867-1912) and Orville (1871-1948) Wright, brothers who developed the first functional airplane.
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