Encyclopedia Smithsonian: Inventors and Innovations: Provides links to Smithsonian web resources.
Great Inventions and Inventors: Elementary school students introduce some of the greatest minds and machines in the modern era. Includes timeline.
Renaissance Inventions and Technology: Discusses devices that are supposedly created in this period of time, such as clocks and the printing press.
The American Experience: Forgotten Inventors: Highlights everyday items such as blue jeans or the can opener and tells about people who created them.
The Headbone Derby: Invention Snatchers: Internet research adventure helps 4th-8th graders discover inventors from the past and learn how inventions come to be.