Lasting Impressions - Resources

 


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http://www.southafrica.info/ess_info/sa_glance/scitech/inventions.htm

  • This web page provides information about the most famous South African inventions and inventors .

http://www.invention-ifia.ch/

  • This is the International Federation of Inventors' Associations website. This site explains the purpose and objective of this international organisation. This site also provides links to other inventors and inventions sites.

http://www.150.si.edu/150trav/remember/amerinv.htm

  • This web page is part of the Smithsonian Museum Remembering Gallery. It contains brief summaries of American inventors and inventions.

http://www.time.com/time/2003/inventions/list.html

  • Time Magazine lists and ranks the "Coolest Inventions" from 2003. You can also view the cool inventions from 2001 and 2002.

http://inventors.about.com/library/bl/bl12.htm

  • This website contains an extensive list of famous inventions.

http://www.enchantedlearning.com/inventors/indexa.shtml

  • This website allows you to search for inventors and inventions by name, and time period. There's also a link for African-American and Women inventors.

http://library.thinkquest.org/C002942/inventions/index.shtml

  • This website includes a searchable database of the world's greatest inventions.

http://www.invent.org/hall_of_fame/1_1_search.asp

  • This site allows you to search for inventors by name, invention, decade, or date they were inducted into the hall of fame.

http://kids.patentcafe.com/discover/women.asp

  • This website is a portal to other sites about women inventors and scientists.

http://www.ipl.org/div/subject/browse/ref15.75.00/

  • This is a portal of annotated websites about scientists and inventors.

South African Education Portal http://www.thutong.org.za

  • Thutong, the South African Education Portal has a growing number of resources for curriculum support.