Inventors - Ohio

The American Experience

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/wright/

Includes information about the Wright Brothers as well as video clips

Charles F. Kettering

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

Biography of man whom Kettering Medical Center is named.

Flights of Inspiration

http://www.fi.edu/flights/index.html

This website looks at the challenge of flight, from the Wright brothers' first flight to the transatlantic flight of Alcock and Brown.

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.

The Henry Ford Exhibit – Thomas Edison

http://www.hfmgv.org/exhibits/edison/

Biography, list of his inventions and chronology.

Invent Now/ Hall of Fame

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

Biography of Charles F. Kettering

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,.

Ohio History Central

http://www.ohiohistorycentral.org

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

Thomas Edison

http://www.springboro.org/teachers/shaberstroh/ThomasEdison.htm

Wright Brothers

http://www.springboro.org/teachers/shaberstroh/WrightBrothers.htm

 

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