Reference Shelf - Inventors and Inventions

All sites are free unless marked with WSU - these marked sites are available only to Worcester State University users. 

• Encyclopedia of Science & Technology - WSU
• Invention Dimension - MIT; focus on common inventions; search feature in upper right of screen
• Inventors - from About.com
• How Stuff Works - searchable database includes diagrams and animated schematics
• Making the Modern World - very visual
• Internet Search Engines - don't enter just your invention, use the term inventions before the invention followed by a plus sign. Example:  inventions +airplane
• General encyclopedias such as Britannica Online (WSU) and Grolier Multimedia (WSU - includes Encyclopedia Americana) give history, diagrams, plus links to reliable Websites for more information