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Note:

These links are 5 years old and so may have expired (the half-life of a link on the web is about 5 years.) The main site of interest is the Bell Notebooks, now maintained at U.Va. As of 2003 that link was still good.

Sections in this document:

  • Aviation Resources
  • Telephone Resources
  • Invention Resources
  • History Resources
  • Writing and Working Resources
  • Aviation Resources

    Air Museum
    Gary Bradshaw's site. Highly recommended. Good info especially on the Wright Brothers. Bradshaw is one of the authors we will be reading in class as well. Several good pages on this site.
    Samuel Pierpont Langley
    Another page from Bradshaw: you should really take a look at Langley. Who else should you make sure to see (name at least 3)?
    How We Made the First Flight
    Excerpts from Orville Wright's book of the same title. Make sure you refer to it properly (as with all web sources).
    Wright brothers
    Henry Ford Museum & Greenfield Village page on the Wrights.
    Grolier Encyclopedia
    Encyclopedia entry.
    Daily Flight Log: the First to Fly
    I haven't looked at this at all.

    Telephone Resources

    Alexander Graham Bell Notebooks
    Volume I of Bell's Telephone Notebooks. Transcribed and scanned. Page-by-page.
    Alexander Graham Bell's Path to the Telephone
    Home page for the Bell cognitive maps
    Thomas Edison Papers
    Searchable index for microfilm, but few documents online yet.

    Invention Resources

    Invention and Design
    Invention and Design pages at the University of Virginia.
    Inventors Gallery
    Gary Bradshaw's inventors gallery.
    TCC 315
    A similar course taught at the University of Virginia
    U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
    Info, Forms, and upcoming events.
    Lemelson Foundation
    Remind me to put a real link here.

    History Resources

    Manufacturer & Builder
    Fully scanned 19th-Century Science and Technology Journal, part of the Making of America Project

    Writing and Working Resources

    Writing Tutorial Services
    X100 Brief Writing Guide (adapted)
    Guide to Working in Groups

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