Invention and Discovery

Web Resources Page

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

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.

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 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.

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

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