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Elias Howe  - http://www.history.rochester.edu/Scientific_American/mystery/howe.htm  Credited with inventing the first practical sewing machine. This biography is from Scientific American Online.  Blacks in Technology, Past and Present  - http://www.users.fast.net/~blc/xlhome2.htm  Profiles of seven African American inventors.  19th Century African-American Inventors  - http://www.suite101.com/article.cfm/african_american_history/61415  Short articles on black inventors from Suite101.com.  Great and Famous Inventors  - http://library.thinkquest.org/J001490/  Elementary school students introduce some of the men and women whose creations changed the 20th century.  Walter Hunt: Inventor of the Safety Pin  - http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/blhunt_pin.htm?once=true&  Read about Walter Hunt who invented lots of things, including the safety pin.  The Magnificent Safety Pin  - http://www.sjmv.org/Campus/Class/scinventors/safetypin/SafetyPin.html  Walter Hunt is credited with inventing this, at least in modern times.  National Inventors Hall of Fame  - http://www.invent.org/  Celebrates inventors, and has indexes of inventors with brief biographies, and an index of inventions so you can find out who is credited with which invention.  Fact Monster; Inventions and Discoveries  - http://www.factmonster.com/ipka/A0004637.html  List of inventions from A to Z with dates, inventors, and links to the biographies of some of these inventors.  The Black Inventor Online Museum  - http://www.blackinventor.com/  A look at the great and often unrecognized pioneers in the field of invention and innovation.  The Great Idea Finder  - http://www.ideafinder.com/history/of_inventors.htm  Provides invention facts, inventor profiles, innovation timeline, history articles, and trivia quiz.  Henry Ford - Ignorant Genius  - http://www.abelard.org/henry-ford.php  Offers a biography and history.  Innovative Lives  - http://invention.smithsonian.org/home/  Short profiles of men and women who are changing life today. From the Smithsonian.  Historical Inventors: A To Z  - http://inventors.about.com/od/famousinventors/  Resource to research famous inventors, including timelines and sections on women, African American, Native American, Chinese and Hispanic groups.  The Invention Dimension: Inventor of the Week Archives  - http://web.mit.edu/invent/i-archive.html  Browsable and searchable collection of short, yet scholarly biographies geared toward students.