How Stuff Works

http://www.howstuffworks.com - Want to know about how everyday items do what they do?  This website takes you inside the hidden workings of lightbulbs, CD players, and other mechanical mysteries.

Invent Now - Hall of Fame

www.invent.org/hall_of_fame/1_0_0_hall_of_fame.asp - Biographies of inventors. Search by inventor or invention.

Inventors & Inventions

http://christchurchcitylibraries.com/kids/inventions/ - Great lists of inventions and who invented them. Lists also include dates of the discoveries or creations. From the Christchurch City LIbraries (New Zealand)

Smithsonian - American Inventions and Inventors

http://www.150.si.edu/150trav/remember/amerinv.htm - The Smithsonian preserves thousands of the models that inventors were required to submit with patent applications before 1880.