Inventions & Discoveries

An invention is a new form, composition of matter, device, or process. Some inventions are based on pre-existing forms, compositions, processes or ideas. Other inventions are radical breakthroughs which may extend the boundaries of human knowledge or experience.

Inventors create or discover new methods, forms, devices or other useful means. The system of patents was established to encourage inventors by granting limited-term monopoly on inventions determined to be sufficiently novel, non-obvious, and useful.

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Active Filters: Scientists, Naturalists & Inventors, 6th grade (Ages 11-12), Hardcover
Marconi: Pioneer of Radio
by Douglas Coe
10th Printing from Julian Messner
for 4th-6th grade
in Vintage History & Biographies (Location: VIN-HIS)
Mr. Bell Invents the Telephone
Landmark #30
by Katherine B. Shippen, illustrated by Richard Floethe
from Random House
for 5th-8th grade
in American Landmark Books (Location: VIN-LAND)
Samuel Morse, Inquisitive Boy
by Dorothea J. Snow
for 3rd-6th grade
in Vintage History & Biographies (Location: VIN-HIS)
Talking Wire: The Story of Alexander Graham Bell
by O. J. Stevenson, illustrated by Lawrence Dresser
from Julian Messner
for 4th-8th grade
in Vintage History & Biographies (Location: VIN-HIS)
We Were There on the Nautilus
We Were There #35
by Robert N. Webb, illustrated by Frank Vaughn
from Grosset & Dunlap
for 5th-9th grade
in We Were There Series (Location: VIN-HIS)