Use these links to complete "INVENTING: Internet Search."

1-12 •Search the following sites to learn more about inventors, inventing, and inventions: http://www.enchantedlearning.com/inventors/indexa.shtml

13 •Mary Walton: http://www.engineering.com/Library/ArticlesPage/tabid/85/ArticleID/37/Mary-Walton.aspx

14 •LEGOs: https://lemelson.mit.edu/resources/ole-christiansen

15 •Crayons: https://lemelson.mit.edu/resources/edwin-binney-and-harold-smith

16 •Ahletic Shoes: https://lemelson.mit.edu/resources/bill-bowerman-and-phil-knight

17 •Band-Aid: http://lemelson.mit.edu/resources/earle-dickson

18 •Inline Skates: https://www.marketplace.org/2014/07/10/business/brought-you/how-19-year-old-started-rollerblade-revolution

19 •Microwave Oven: https://jbredenfeld.wordpress.com/inventions-that-changed-the-world/the-microwave-oven/

20 •Video Games: http://www.computinghistory.org.uk/det/4007/Atari-PONG/

For Fun:

http://www.rubegoldberg.com/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0uDDEEHDf1Y (Audri/Rube Goldberg)

http://www.flixxy.com/high-tech-car-door.htm

http://www.worldbookonline.com/student/biocentersearch?br1=inventors&search=browse

PATENTS

•Information on Patents:

https://student.societyforscience.org/article/what-patent

https://www.fi.edu/history-resources/patent-models

Patents: go to the bottom of the page!

•Click here to view Apple's patent on the integrated touch screen. This invention allows the touch display to be manufactured with fewer parts and/or processing steps as well as ensuring that the display itself may be thinner, brighter and require less power:

http://pdfpiw.uspto.gov/.piw?PageNum=0&docid=08390582&IDKey=C0462CDFAE02&HomeUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fpatft.uspto.gov%2Fnetacgi%2Fnph-Parser%3FSect1%3DPTO2%2526Sect2%3DHITOFF%2526p%3D1%2526u%3D%25252Fnetahtml%25252FPTO%25252Fsearch-bool.html%2526r%3D1%2526f%3DG%2526l%3D50%2526co1%3DAND%2526d%3DPTXT%2526s1%3D8390582.PN.%2526OS%3DPN%2F8390582%2526RS%3DPN%2F8390582

•Click here to learn about totally absurd patented inventions:

http://totallyabsurd.com/inventions.htm

OTHER

•Click here to view information on an invention competition (MN Cup - See "Youth Division." Application due in March.): https://carlsonschool.umn.edu/mn-cup

INVENTION DIRECTIONS

•Click on the links below for information and directions for your invention (You may need to request access):