• Who's Responsible for This?

Use web sites to find out who invented commom items.
 
• Scholastic's Online Field Trip: Inventions

Ever wonder exactly who invented such things as the
computer mouse, plastic, or the modern athletic shoe?
Meet some of the people behind these and many other
products and learn the stories behind their inventions.
 
• Scholastic's History of Flight

Although we often think of the Wright Brothers' famous "first flight" in 1903 as the beginning of aviation history, man's attempt to soar through the sky goes back many centuries. As far back as the 15th century, Leonardo da Vinci was studying birds' flight and
building gliders.
 
• From Abacus to Computer: The History of Computing Machines

Today, it's hard to imagine life without computers. They help us with every part of our lives — whether it's writing a paper for school or buying a candy bar at the corner store. But it took thousands of years for humankind to develop the sophisticated machines we take for granted these days.
 
• Mathematicians Through History

Mathematicians have been changing the history of the
world since the Babylonians invented the abacus in the fourth century B.C. The Internet offers great resources to learn about famous mathematicians and math inventors.