SOCIAL STUDIES/READING
Excellent Resources for a Study
on Inventions

Submitted by: I Love That Teaching Idea! Staff
From: Nibley, Utah
Date Submitted: April 12, 2001

· Mistakes that Worked by Charlotte Foltz Jones - Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing
· Hervert Binns & the Flying Tricycle by Caroline Castle & Peter Neevers -Dial Books
· The Mouse and the Motorcycle by Beverly Cleary
· The How's and Why's of Invention Fairs by Don Daugs - The Home Teacher, Inc.
· Eli Whitney by Judith Alter
· Alexander Graham Bell, Man of Sound by Elizabeth R. Montgomery - Garrard Pub.
· Henry Ford, Maker of the Model T by Mariam Gilbert - Houghton Mifflin
· How in the World: A Fascinating Journey Through the World of Human Ingenuity
The Reader's Digest Association - New York

Women Inventor Posters can be obtained by writing:
National Women's History Project
7738 Bell Road
Windsor, CA 95492

The story of the United States Patent Office and how the patent system works is available by writing:
Superintendent of Documents
U.S. Government Printing Office
Washington, D.C. 20402