Ohio Inventors

Academic Content Standards – Ohio – 4th Grade - History

Explain the importance of inventors such as the Wright Brothers, Charles Kettering, Garrett Morgan, Granville Woods and Thomas Edison.

Subject Headings/Keywords – See Wright Brothers, See Thomas Edison, Kettering, Charles Franklin; Morgan, Garrett, gas mask, traffic lights and signals; Woods, Granville, railroad telegraph system

Dewey Decimal/Call Number – B, 621.326

Resources - Books

B K431L Lavine, Sigmund A. Kettering: master inventor. Illustrated with photos. Dodd, 1960.

B K431Y Young, Rosamond McPherson.  Boss Ket; a life of Charles F. Kettering. Longmans, 1961.

B M848317M  Murphy, Patricia J. Garrett Morgan : inventor of the traffic light and gas mask. Berkeley Heights, NJ : Enslow Publishers, 2004. Profiles the man responsible for inventing the traffic light and gas mask, both very important     elements for safety.

B00771 Sowash, Rick. Heroes of Ohio : 23 true tales of courage and character.   Bowling Green,, Ohio : Gabriel's Horn Publishing Company, 1998.  Stories of 23 Ohioans including inventors Thomas Edison, The Wright Brothers and    Granville T. Woods.

J 509.227 Hayden, Robert C. 9 African American inventors. Brookfield, Conn. : Twenty-First Century Books, 1992. Includes a biography of Granville T.    Woods, an inventor in the field of electromechanics.

J 609.771 Dalton, Curt. How Ohio helped invent the world: from the airplane to the yo-yo. Dayton, Ohio: C. Dalton, 2001. Tells about inventions made by people from Ohio.

J 621.309 CEF Cefrey, Holly. The inventions of Granville Woods : the railroad telegraph system and the "third rail". Provides a biographical sketch of Granville Woods, sometimes known as the "Black Edison," and descriptions of some of his inventions.

Websites

Charles F. Kettering

http://www.kmcnetwork.org/about_KMCN/cfk.cfm

Biography of man whom Kettering Medical Center is named.

Invent Now/ Hall of Fame

http://www.invent.org/hall_of_fame/86.html

Biography of Charles F. Kettering

Ohio History Central

http://www.ohiohistorycentral.org

Biographies of Edison, Thomas; Kettering, Charles; Morgan, Garrett A.; Woods Granville T.; Wright, Orville; Wright, Wilbur

Inventor or the Week:

http://web.mit.edu/invent/i-archive.html

Contains  biographies about Thomas Edison,  Charles Kettering, Orville & Wilbur Wright,  Garrett Morgan and Granville Woods as well as other Ohio inventors such as Thomas J. Fogarty, John William Mauchly, Stan Ovshinsky , Roy Plunkett(Teflon), James Jacob Ritty, Paul Zamecnik,.

Heartland Science – the Ohio Academy of Science

http://www.heartlandscience.org/

Heartland Science portrays how Ohioans have changed the world through discovery and innovation in science, engineering, technology, medicine and health care.

Databases

American National Biography

Contains biographies about Charles Kettering, and Garrett Morgan.  Additional Ohio Inventors include Alexander Ephraim  Brown, Elisha Gray, Tolbert Lanston and John Butler Tytus, Jr.

Biographies Plus Illustrated –

Contains biographies and articles about Charles Kettering, Garrett A. Morgan, Granville Woods, Elisha Gray, Tolbert Lanston and John Butler Tytus, Jr.

Compton’s Encyclopedia

Contains biographies about Charles Kettering, Garrett Morgan, and Granville Woods.

World Book Online

Includes Charles Kettering