Public Science Day 2000:
The Science of
Everyday Things

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Web Resources

African American Women as Inventors
http://www.blackhistory.net/bh.nsf/history/w_inventors.html

Aviation History
Aviation Resource Center
http://www.geocities.com/capecanaveral/4294/history

The Aviation History Online Museum
http://www.aviation-history.com

The Explorer
Science and Math Curriculum
http://explorer.scrtec.org

Exploring Leonardo
http://www.mos.org/sln/Leonardo/

The Franklin Institute
Flights of Inspiration
http://www.fi.edu/flight/

Greatest Inventors and Inventions
http://tqjunior.thinkquest.org/5847/

Inventions! @ National Geographic
Play wild and wacky invention games at this site. Requires Shockwave.
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/features/96/inventions

NASA
Glenn Research Center
Beginner's Guide to Aerodynamics
http://www.lerc.nasa.gov/WWW/K-12/airplane/bga.html

National Inventors' Hall of Fame
http://www.invent.org/book/

Smithsonian Institution
National Air and Space Museum
Educational Services
http://www.nasm.edu/edu

Smithsonian's Inventors and Inventions
Brief histories of famous inventors and inventions including Albert Einstein, the telegraph, the light, and the computer.
http://www.si.edu/resource/faq/nmah/invent.htm

Spotlight Biography: Inventors
http://educate.si.edu/spotlight/inventors1.html

United States Patent and Trademark Office
Kids' Pages
http://www.uspto.gov/go/kids/kidgames.html