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This category includes sites about individual explorers and groups of inventors. All sites are suitable for children and teens to read and use for enjoyment or for schoolwork. Biographies may be brief and sites may have several, perhaps connected by occupation, but the information contained should have the basic details, e.g., birth and death dates, some details of the life lived, major accomplishments, and so forth.

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This category lists pages and sites about the life of British mathematician Charles Babbage (1791-1871) who invented the first mechanical computing device.
This category lists pages and sites about the life of African-American farmer and self-taught mathematician Benjamin Banneker (1731-1806). Born the son of a freed slave, Banneker earned the title "first African-American inventor" by designing things such as an irrigation system that produced wheat and kept U.S. troops from starving during the Revolutionary War. Banneker was also one of the designers of the U.S. capital.
Sites focus on the life of Bell.
This category lists pages and sites about the life of Louis Braille (1809-1852). Blind himself and a teacher of the blind, Braille modified the Barbier "point writing" system which had previously been used for coded army messages and created an alphabet of embossed characters that allowed the blind to "read" with their fingertips.
Sites focus on the life of George Eastman (1854-1932), who transformed photography through his inventions.
Sites focus on the life of Edison.
This category lists pages and sites about the life of American inventor Philo Taylor Farnsworth (1906-1971), who came up with the idea for the first television tube when he was just 14 years old.
This category lists pages and sites about the life of American engineer Robert Hutchings Goddard (1882-1945), known as the father of modern rocketry.
Sites focus on the life of Johannes Gutenberg (1398-1468), who invented the printing press.

This category lists pages and sites about the American inventor, Walter Hunt (1796 - 1859). Some of his invention include the fountain pen, sewing machine (1834), safety pin (1849), and a forerunner of the Winchester repeating rifle.

All sites listed here are suitable for children and teens to read and use for enjoyment and/or for schoolwork.

Submit only sites appropriate for children under the age of 18.
This category lists sites that provide biographies and autobiographies for Walter Hunt. Biographies may be brief but the information contained should have the basic details, e.g., birth and death dates, some details of the life lived, major accomplishments, etc.

Sites about the New Hampshire-based inventor of medical and technological devices.
This category lists pages and site about the life of Guglielmo Marconi (1874-1937), the Italian engineer who invented the first practical radio-signaling system.
This category lists pages and sites about the life of African-American inventor Elijah McCoy (1844 - 1929) who patented and sold more than 50 devices during his lifetime.
This category lists pages and sites about the life of African-American inventor Garrett Augustus Morgan (1877-1963) who life-saving creations included the traffic signal and the gas mask.
This category lists pages and sites about the life of Scottish inventor and mechanical engineer James Watt (1736-1819), best known for his improvements of the steam engine.
This category lists pages and sites about American inventor Eli Whitney (1765-1825), best known for his invention of the cotton gin.
This category lists pages and sites about the lives of Wilbur (1867-1912) and Orville (1871-1948) Wright, brothers who developed the first functional airplane.