Resource Links - Inventions

Invention on the Web and in Books

American Inventions and Inventors

History of the Sewing Machine

Greatest Inventions

Power Loom - Edmund Cartwright

Greatest Engineering Achievements of the 20th Century

History of the Mills

History of Invention Timeline

Lowell National Historic Park

Historical Inventions and Inventors

Pre Civil War and Slavery

How Stuff Works

Who Invented the Cotton Gin? , King Cotton

Innovation Timeline

Civil War and the Cotton Industry

Inventing Entertainment

Wire Communications, History of Telegraph

Invention Dimension - Inventors archive

Telephone and Telegraph, Telegraphy

Invention Facts and Myths

Those Inventive Americans, Taps for the Telegraph

Inventions and Discoveries

Dawn of TV Technology

Lemelson Center of Invention - Smithsonian National Museum of American History

Railroads, History & Settlement, Western Railroads

Museum of Ancient Inventions

the Railraod & Settling the West

National Inventor's Hall of Fame

Telescopes, History of Telescope

Technology in America

How Steam Revolutionized Shipping

Inventing Modern America

History of Steamboats, Role of Steamships

Zoom Inventors and Invention

Airplanes as Tools of Peace

Early Models of the Universe, Cosmology, Galileo

Early Navigation Methods, Navigation

 

Books available in the School Library or Public Library

Queen of inventions. How the Sewing Machine changed the world by Laurie M. Carlson

Across America on an Emigrant Train by Jim Murphy *

Girls Think of Everything: Stories of Ingenious Inventions by Women by Catherine Thimmesh

From radio to the wireless Web by Joanne Mattern *

We'll set one up for you.The First Conglomerate: 145 Years of the Singer Sewing Machine Company by D. C. Bissell *

Telecommunications by Christopher F. Lampton *

The Lowell Mill Girls: Life in the Factory by Joanne Weisman Deitch

Sounds in the air : the golden age of radio by Norman Finkelstein

The Bobbin Girl by Emily Arnold McCully

Space telescope by Branley

A History of the American People by Paul M. Johnson *

Telescopes : searching the heavens by Hitzeroth

The First Conglomerate: 145 Years of the Singer Sewing Machine Company by D. C. Bissell *

The Wright Brothers: How They Invented the Airplane by Russell Freedman

Women at work : the transformation of work and community in Lowell, Massachusetts -Thomas Dublin *

The Riddle of the Compass by Amir D. Aczel

Full Steam Ahead by Rhoda Blumberg

The compass by David Hogan

Ten Mile Day by Mary Ann Ten Mile Day by Mary Ann Fraser

Updated 10/25/03