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National Inventors Hall of Fame - http://www.invent.org/
Celebrates inventors, and has indexes of inventors with brief biographies, and an index of inventions so you can find out who is credited with which invention. |
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Innovative Lives - http://invention.smithsonian.org/home/
Short profiles of men and women who are changing life today. From the Smithsonian. |
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Historical Inventors: A To Z - http://inventors.about.com/od/famousinventors/
Resource to research famous inventors, including timelines and sections on women, African American, Native American, Chinese and Hispanic groups. |
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The Invention Dimension: Inventor of the Week Archives - http://web.mit.edu/invent/i-archive.html
Browsable and searchable collection of short, yet scholarly biographies geared toward students. |
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Fact Monster; Inventions and Discoveries - http://www.factmonster.com/ipka/A0004637.html
List of inventions from A to Z with dates, inventors, and links to the biographies of some of these inventors. |
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The Black Inventor Online Museum - http://www.blackinventor.com/
A look at the great and often unrecognized pioneers in the field of invention and innovation. |
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Historical Figures in Telecommunications - http://www.itu.int/aboutitu/HistoricalFigures.html
Brief biographical sketches of about a dozen people who have been important in the history of the development of telecommunications. |
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The Great Idea Finder - http://www.ideafinder.com/history/of_inventors.htm
Provides invention facts, inventor profiles, innovation timeline, history articles, and trivia quiz. |
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Inventor Biographies - http://www.madehow.com/inventorbios/
Alphabetical list from Cleveland Abbe through Vladimir Zworykin includes nationalities, occupations and stories of their inventions. |
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Robert Noyce - http://www.pbs.org/transistor/album1/addlbios/noyce.html
Brief biography of the co-inventor, with Jack Kilby, of the integrated circuit. |