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How Stuff Works

If you wonder how tornados work, or want to know what's inside a TV remote control, check this site. You can look through the categories of things or search for what you are interested in.
URL: http://www.howstuffworks.com/

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Inventions and Inventors

The Official Rube Goldberg Web Site

Read about Rube Goldberg, get information on an invention contest, and check out the gallery of cartoons depicting ten of Goldgerg's wacky devices.
URL: http://www.rubegoldberg.com/

The Greatest Inventors and Inventions

A ThinkQuest Junior Contest winner, this site has an Inventors' Hall of Fame, where you can read about famous inventors and their inventions, a timeline, games, a quiz, and links to related sites.
URL: http://library.thinkquest.org/5847/homepage.htm

U.S. Patent & Trademark Office

The Kids' Pages of the U.S. government patent Office.
URL: http://www.uspto.gov/go/kids/

The National Inventors Hall of Fame

Click on the magnifying glass icon at the bottom to search for specific inventors or inventions, or browse through alphabetical lists. Clicking on an inventor's name will get you a short biography and clicking on an invention will get you to its inventor.
URL: http://www.invent.org/hall_of_fame/1_0_0_hall_of_fame.asp

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Spotlight: Biographies

Use the menu on the side and click "Inventors" and you'll find brief biographies of several well-known inventors, such as Benjamin Franklin, Alexander Graham Bell, Robert Fulton, and Wilbur Wright. Includes links to other invention sites and sites about the featured inventors. This is from the Smithsonian Institution website.
URL: http://smithsonianeducation.org/spotlight/start.html

Smithsonian: Inventors and Innovation

Selected links to sites hosted by Smithsonian Institution museums and organizations,
URL: http://www.si.edu/resource/faq/nmah/invent.htm

American Inventors and Inventions

From the Smithsonian's "Remembering Gallery," commemorating the museum's 150th anniversary.
URL: http://www.150.si.edu/150trav/remember/amerinv.htm

Totally Absurd Inventions

Just for fun, take a look at these actual patented inventions that aren't likely to make their inventors rich, like the "Toilet Timer" or "Floating Furniture." The "featured absurd invention" is updated three times a week, or you can look at the archive for inventions that were featured previously.
URL: http://www.totallyabsurd.com/

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Simple Machines

MSN Encarta - Machine

An Encarta Encyclopedia Article titled "Machine" that will teach you about simple machines.
URL: http://encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_761562252_1/Simple_Machine.html

URL: http://www.wssu.org/nes%20library%20page/tech.html