Howdy, gang! My name's Earl, and I'm a roving web wanderer. Every weekday, I answer a question from curious folks like you. I find out the answer by using good ol' Yahooligans! Ask Earl Home Submit Question Earl's Profile Stray Kat's Profile Dear Earl, Who invented morse code? Tam, Age 12 Dear Tam, Believe it or not, morse code is named for its inventor, Samuel F.B. Morse. I found him in Yahooligans! in the company of other great inventors. Born near Boston in 1791, M ...

Benjamin Franklin Hello kids! Allow me to introduce myself. My name is Benjamin Franklin. I will be your guide throughout this site. You probably know me best as a Founding Father and from my "shocking" kite experiment. I have been chosen to represent GPO Access since I was involved in setting up the first public library in America and my work during the early days of government printing has led some people to give me the honorary title of "first public printer" of the United States. Click ...

Benjamin Banneker Benjamin Banneker, the son of Robert and Mary Bannaky was born in 1731. His grandfather was a slave from Africa and his grandmother, an indentured servant from England. His grandfather was known as Banna Ka, then later as Bannaky, his grandmother as Molly Walsh. His grandmother was a maid in England who had been sent to Maryland as an indentured servant. When she finished her seven years of bondage, she bought a farm along with two slaves to help her take care of it. Walsh f ...

A list of Benjamin Franklin's inventions reveals a man of many talents and interests. It was the scientist in Ben that brought out the inventor. His natural curiosity about things and the way they work made him try to find ways to make them work better. Ben had poor vision and needed glasses to read. He got tired of constantly taking them off and putting them back on, so he decided to figure out a way to make his glasses let him see both near and far. He had two pairs of spectacles c ...

THE GARRETT A. MORGAN TECHNOLOGY AND TRANSPORTATION FUTURES PROGRAM EDUCATING TOMORROW'S TRANSPORTATION WORKFORCE An American Inventor Garrett Augustus Morgan, Sr. Garrett Augustus Morgan, Sr. was an American inventor whose curiosity and innovation led him to develop several commercial products, the successors of which are still in use today. A practical man of humble beginnings, Morgan devoted his life to creating items that made the lives of common people safer and more conven ...

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Hero Garrett Morgan Genius inventor, and businessman Garrett Augustus Morgan was born in Paris, Kentucky March 4, 1877 to Sidney and Elizabeth (Reed) Morgan. Elizabeth Morgan had been a slave freed by the Emancipation Proclamation. She and Sidney had eleven children, Garrett Morgan was the seventh. After only six years of schooling in Kentucky, Morgan (Garrett) moved to Cincinnati as a teenager. At that time, northern cities provided more opportunities for people of color. In Cincinnati, M ...

InventorEd, Inc. Presents: Kids Inventor Resources Click here to break out of FramePLEASE Support InventorEd Your Donation Helps MIT Page on Ronald J Riley Science Fiction and Inventors You want to be an inventor but you do not know where to start? HOW I BECAME AN INVENTOR By Ronald J. Riley This is aimed at 5th through 12th grade students. When I was a child I loved to take my toys apart to see what made them work, and then put them back together. My father bought ...

TO THE KIDS ZONE Welcome to Alexander Graham Bell's Kids' Page. Here you will find a place where you can enjoy being a kid. Explore the unknown, but have fun! Did you know that Alexander Graham Bell liked to work with children. Check out some of the links below that show what Bell had created for you to have fun with. It is educational and we can learn together! LINKS LINKS LINKS ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL'S GAMESPrint off each page and enjoy the fun! Preschool Page 1 "SEE & ...

Take a quick online survey and help the Museum of Science improve this website! Who was Leonardo da Vinci? He had a keen eye and quick mind that led him to make important scientific discoveries, yet he never published his ideas. He was a gentle vegetarian who loved animals and despised war, yet he worked as a military engineer to invent advanced and deadly weapons. He was one of the greatest painters of the Italian Renaissance, yet he left only a handful of completed paintings. ...

Meet Melvil Who put the Dewey in the Dewey Decimal System? Home Melvil Dewey lived an extraordinary life! He was born in Adams Center, New York, on December 10, 1851, and died on December 26, 1931. He was a librarian who invented a decimal classification system for library books called the Dewey Decimal System. In 1876, he founded the American Library Associ ...

Melvil Dewey, 1851 - 1931 Melvil Dewey was born in New York on the tenth of December, 1851. He went to school and eventually became a librarian at Amherst College. In 1876, he published an important book, one that would totally change the way books were arranged in libraries. Through this book Dewey established the Dewey Decimal System. Dewey did other things to affect the ways libraries operate today. He helped found the American Library Association in 1876 and established the first profe ...

Thomas Alva Edison Researcher: Rachel Sahlman In his lifetime, Thomas Alva Edison profoundly affected the technology of modern society. The American inventor was born February 11, 1847 in Milan, Ohio. He was the seventh and last child of Samuel Edison, Jr. and Nancy Elliot Edison. When Edison was 7 years old, his family moved to Port Huron, Michigan, after his father hired on as a carpenter at the Fort Gratiot military post. Edison entered school in Port Huron, but his teachers con ...

The Story of Louis Braille There was a time, not long ago, when most people thought that blind people could never learn to read. People thought that the only way to read was to look at words with your eyes. A young French boy named Louis Braille thought otherwise. Blind from the age of three, young Louis desperately wanted to read. He realized the vast world of thought and ideas that was locked out to him because of his disability. And he was determined to find the key to this doo ...

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