Inventions

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Search these databases for information about your inventor: Search this database for the following information about your invention:
 * **DISCovering Biography**
 * **Encyclopedia of World Biography**
 * **U*X*L Encyclopedia of World Biography**
 * **Grolier Encyclopedia**
 * [|**Encyclopedia Britannica**]


 * The name of the invention
 * The inventor
 * When it was invented
 * The invention's purpose
 * A picture of the invention
 * Positive and negative effects of the invention on society (you may have to infer these effects based on your reading)

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Use these websites to locate additional copyright-friendly pictures of your invention:


 * [|Creative Commons]
 * [|Wikimedia Commons]
 * [|flickr CC Blue Mountain]
 * [|flickr Storm]
 * [|Public Domain Images]
 * [|The Smithsonian]