- Kamen, Dean (7)
- Read about Dean Kamen, the entrepreneur and inventor of the Segway HT, the two-wheeled, self-balancing electric transportation device. Sites provide bio, and articles about the founder of the Deka Research and Development Corporation.
- Invent Now: National Inventors Hall of Fame
 - Honours women and men responsible for technological advances that make human, social, and economic progress possible. - Rutan, Burt (4)
- Learn about Burt Rutan, the American aerospace engineer and designer of Voyager and SpaceShipOne. Sites feature biography, awards, interview, launch video clips, and SpaceShipOne, the world’s first privately funded manned space programme which ushered in space tourism.
- Moog, Robert (1934-2005) (11)
- Find sites about Robert Moog, the pioneer of electronic music, best known as the inventor of the Moog synthesizer. Sites provide biography, articles and interviews, and images.
- Eastman, George (1854-1932)@
- Read about George Eastman, the innovator and entrepreneur, who invented the roll of film and revolutionized the photography industry by making it accessible to the masses. Sites include biography, history of the invention, patents, legacy, facts, and career highlights of founder of Eastman Kodak Company.
- About.com: Inventors
- Spotlights famous inventors and inventions.
- Edison, Thomas@
- Explore the sites for Thomas Alva Edison (1847-1931), the American inventor of electric bulb and many more who was one of the first to apply mass production to the process of invention. Sites feature biography, family mementos, inventions, numerous patents, photos, motion pictures, sound recordings, and commemoration of Fort Myers' most famous citizen who was dubbed as "The Wizard of Menlo Park."
- Wright Brothers@
- Read about Orville and Wilbur Wright, the two Americans bicycle makers, who invented and build the first successful aeroplane for human flight. Sites contain biographies, career and research, flight, first flight centennial, museum, photographs, and the cultural impact of the invention of flying machine by the Wright brothers.
- Taylor, Frederick Winslow (1856-1915)@
- Learn about Frederick Winslow Taylor (1856-1915), one of the intellectual leaders whose dynamic "Taylorism" ideas highly influenced the Progressive Era in the U.S. history. Sites feature biography, career profile, time-and-motion studies for improved worker productivity, and other organisational psychology approaches initiated by the American engineer who sought to improve industrial efficiency.
- Gilbreth Network, The
- Forum for research on lives and work of early 20th century engineers and efficiency experts Frank Gilbreth and Lillian Moller Gilbreth.
- Kilby, Jack S. (1923-2005)@
- Find sites for Jack Kilby, the inventor of integrated circuit, handheld calculator, and thermal printer. Sites provide biography, articles, facts, and patents of the Nobel Physics Laureate.
- Lemelson Center: Invention at Play
- Interactive companion to the national travelling exhibit on the playful side of innovation. Learn through activities how childhood activities spurred historic and contemporary inventors.
- Invention Dimension
- Profiles a dirrerent inventor each week. Lemelson-MIT also offers an online handbook created for independent inventors and entrepreneurs to address questions concerning the protection of intellectual property, raising capital, applying for patents, and other steps to protect and commercialize ideas.
- Ericsson, John (1803-1889) (6)
- Carver, George Washington (1861?-1943)@
- Learn about George Washington Carver, the African American African American botanist and chemist. Sites provide biography, articles, and pictures of the inventor whose work led to advances in agriculture, chemistry, and textiles.
- Lemelson, Jerome (1923-1997) (4)
- Learn about Jerome Lemelson, the inventor and patent holder of over 600 products, through sites providing info on the Lemelson Foundation, news and articles, bio, and patent laws.
- Morgan, Garrett Augustus (1875-1963) (7)
- Banneker, Benjamin (1731-1806)@
- Hunkin, Tim
- Official site for the engineer and cartoonist, whose works include Hunkin's Experiments and the Rudiments of Wisdom Encyclopedia.
- Goddard, Robert H. (1882-1945)@
- Morse, Samuel F.B. (1791-1872) (4)
- Find sites for Samuel Morse, the inventor of the telegraph and the Morse Code. Sites provide biography, Morse family tree, and images.
- Gizmologist's Lair
- A.K.A. the Centre for Research on Things You Shouldn't Try at Home.
- McCoy, Elijah (1843-1929) (8)
- Farnsworth, Philo Taylor (1906-1971)@
- Read about Philo T Farnsworth, the inventor of the fusion device called fusor. Sites offer biography, timeline, galleries, and articles on the inventor of the electronic television.
- Brunel, Isambard Kingdom (1806-1859) (2)
- Fulton, Robert (1765-1815) (3)
- Tupper, Earl (1907-1983) (5)
- Lunn, Wilf (2)
- Land, Edwin Herbert (1909-1991)
- American physicist and inventor of the Polaroid Land Camera in 1947.
- Latimer, Lewis Howard (1848-1928) (7)
- Otis, Elisha Graves (1811-1861)@
- Find sites for Elisha Graves Otis, the American who invented the elevator safety brake which conceptualized the mass construction of skyscrapers. Sites offer biography, facts of about the invention, and the Otis Elevator company founded by the American inventor.
- Woods, Granville T. (1856-1910)@
- Otto, Nicolaus August (1832-1891)@
- Daimler, Gottlieb (1834-1900)@
- von Braun, Wernher (1912-1977)@
- Rillieux, Norbert (1806-1894) (2)
- Holland, John Philip (1841-1914)@
- Maybach, Wilhelm (1846-1929)@
- Whittle, Frank (1907-1996) (4)
- MacCready, Paul (2)
- Modern Compendium of Miniature Automata
- Set in a late-Victorian, steam age alternate universe and presented as inventor Alfred Upton Alcock's notebook of discovery.
- American Inventors & Innovators
- Inter-disciplinary curriculum and technology project undertaken by the staff and students of the Maxwell--Newman--Drew team at Ryan Middle School in Fairbanks, Alaska.
- Podkletnov, Eugene@
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