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19th Century African-American Inventors - http://www.suite101.com/article.cfm/african_american_history/61415
Short articles on black inventors from Suite101.com.

Blacks in Technology, Past and Present - http://www.users.fast.net/~blc/xlhome2.htm
Profiles of seven African American inventors.

Elias Howe - http://www.history.rochester.edu/Scientific_American/mystery/howe.htm
Credited with inventing the first practical sewing machine. This biography is from Scientific American Online.

Elias Howe - http://www.invent.org/hall_of_fame/206.html
Profile of the inventor of the sewing machine; born in Spencer, Massachusetts.

Ernst F. W. Alexanderson - http://www.invent.org/hall_of_fame/2.html
Profile of the Swedish-born inventor of the High-Frequency Alternator Radio.

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.

Famous American Inventors - http://www.american-inventor.com/
Includes brief sketches and images of selected inventors.

Famous Black Inventors - http://www.black-inventor.com/
Profiles of selected African-American inventors of the 20th century.

George Edward Alcorn, Jr. - https://webfiles.uci.edu:443/mcbrown/display/alcorn.html
Physicist and inventor. Provides brief biography, patent list, curriculum vitae and illustrations.

Great and Famous Inventors - http://library.thinkquest.org/J001490/
Elementary school students introduce some of the men and women whose creations changed the 20th century.

Henry Ford - Ignorant Genius - http://www.abelard.org/henry-ford.php
Offers a biography and history.

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.

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.

Innovative Lives - http://invention.smithsonian.org/home/
Short profiles of men and women who are changing life today. From the Smithsonian.

Inventor Biographies - http://www.madehow.com/inventorbios/
Alphabetical list from Cleveland Abbe through Vladimir Zworykin includes nationalities, occupations and stories of their inventions.

InventorNet - http://library.thinkquest.org/J003148/
A Thinkquest project which tells about the inventors of the telephone, light bulb, CD, curling iron, microwave and paper.

James Nasmith - http://www.hoophall.com/halloffamers/bhof-james-naismith.html
Profile, career, and background history on the sport's inventor. From the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame.

Made Up In Britain - http://madeupinbritain.camio.co.uk/
Series of brief articles about British inventors and their inventions.

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.

Robert Noyce - http://www.pbs.org/transistor/album1/addlbios/noyce.html
Brief biography of the co-inventor, with Jack Kilby, of the integrated circuit.

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.

The Great Idea Finder - http://www.ideafinder.com/history/of_inventors.htm
Provides invention facts, inventor profiles, innovation timeline, history articles, and trivia quiz.

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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