National Inventors' Month

National Inventors Month

August

A Hilton M. Briggs Library Resource Guide
Guide Archive

Background

To educate the American public about the value of creativity and inventiveness and the importance of inventions and inventors to the quality of our lives. This will be accomplished by specially-designed displays for libraries, an interactive website and through the placement of media stories about living inventors in most of the top national, local and trade publications. Sponsored by the United Inventors Association of the USA (UIA-USA), the Academy of Applied Science and Inventors' Digest.

~Chase's Calendar of Events 2007. Chicago: Contemporary Books, 2007 Located in the reference area on the main level of the library, call number:
Ref. GT4803.C48

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Selected Reference Sources - Located in the Reference Area on the Main Level

Call Number	Title / Author
REF TA139 .B56 1986	*The Biographical Dictionary of Scientists. Engineers and Inventors.*
REF T39 .B49 1996	*Biographical Dictionary of the History of Technology.*
REF T9 .C335 1974	*Dictionary of Inventions and Discoveries.*
REF T339 M26 1983	*A Handbook for Inventors : How to Protect, Patent, Finance, Develop, Manufacture, and Market Your Ideas.*
REF HF5415.153 I45 1986	*I'll Buy That! : 50 Small Wonders and Big Deals that Revolutionized the Lives of Consumers: a 50-Year Retrospective.*
REF T21 .L48 1992	*Inventing & Patenting Sourcebook : How to Sell and Protect Your Ideas.*
REF T15 .I58 1993	*Inventions and Discoveries, 1993 : What's Happened, What's Coming, What's That?*
REF Q199 .M68 1994	*Milestones in Science and Technology : the Ready Reference Guide to Discoveries, Inventions, and Facts.*
REF T15 .G57 1985	*The World Almanac Book of Inventions.*

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Selected Books and Government Documents - Books are located on the Upper Level, Documents are located on the lower level. Both are available for checkout.

Call Number	Title / Author
Book T16 .J36 1994	Ancient Inventions / Peter James & Nick Thorpe
Book T212 .C37 1995	*Career as an Inventor.*
Govt. Document C 21.2:C 33/2	Celebrating American ingenuity : the United States Patent and Trademark Museum, Washington, D.C.
Book HC102.5.S424 A3 2007	Confessions of a serial entrepreneur : why I can’t stop starting over / Stuart Skorman ; with Catherine Guthrie.
Book E185.96 .B835 1993	Created Equal : the Lives and Ideas of Black American Innovators / James Michael Brodie
Book TK140.E3 I87 1998	Edison : a Life of Invention / Paul Israel
Book HD62.5 .A96 2006	The entrepreneur’s information sourcebook : charting the path to small business success / Susan C. Awe.
Book T36 .M33 1992	Feminine Ingenuity : Women and Invention in America / Anne L. Macdonald
Govt. Document I 29.9/5:159	First flight : the Wright Brothers and the invention of the airplane / Tom D. Crouch ; foreword by John Glenn.
Book T21 .Y68 1998	Forbes Greatest Technology Stories : Inspiring Tales of the Entrepreneurs and Inventors Who Revolutionized Modern Business / Jeffrey Young
Book T212 .W4 1992	Forks, Phonographs, and Hot Air Balloons : a Field Guide to Inventive Thinking / Robert J. Weber
Book T212 .C59 1993	The Great American Idea Book / Bob Coleman, Deborah Neville
Book HD6053 .H37 2007	How she does it : how women entrepreneurs are changing the rules of business success / Margaret Heffernan.
Book HD62.5 .H685 2004	How to start a business in South Dakota / by Entrepreneur Press.
Govt. Document SBA 1.32/2:PI-1	Ideas into dollars / Gerald G. Udell.
Book HC110.T4 S82 2000	Invention and the rise of technocapitalism / Luis Suarez-Villa.
Govt. Document FT 1.32:IN 8	*Invention promotion firms.*
Govt. Document LC 33.10:87-11	Inventions and inventors / compiled by Constance Carter.
Book T339 .F45 2005	The inventor’s guide to trademarks and patents / Craig Fellenstein with Jaclyn Vassallo and Rachel Ralston.
Book HD62.5 .L385 2007	Mommy millionaire : how I turned my kitchen table idea into a million dollars and how you can, too! / Kim Lavine.
Govt. Document A 77.6/3:P 27	Patents in ARS : a plain language guide.
Govt. Document C 21.2:P 27/20	Patent strategic plan.
Book T223.P2 P38 2007	Patent technology : transfer and industrial competition / Juanita M. Branes, editor.
Govt. Document Fiche Y 4.J 89/1:109-104	Patent trolls : fact or fiction? : hearing before the Subcommittee on Courts, the Internet, and Intellectual Property of the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives, One Hundred Ninth Congress, second session, June 15, 2006.
Book KF3114.6 .H395 2007	Patents for business : the manager’s guide to scope, strategy, and due diligence / M. Henry Heines.
Book T339 .B92 1999	Protecting your ideas : the inventor's guide to patents / Joy L. Bryant.
Book HD62.5 .S576 2005	StartupNation : America’s leading entrepreneurial experts reveal the secrets to building a blockbuster business / Jeff Sloan and Rich Sloan.
Book T15 .F77 1997	Why Didn't I Think of That? : Bizarre Origins of Ingenious Inventions We Couldn't Live Without / Allyn Freeman, Bob Golden

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Internet Resources

Web Site Title	Web Address
About.Com - Inventors	http://inventors.about.com/
The American Experience - Forgotten Inventors	http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/telephone/sfeature/index.html
The Black Inventor Online Museum	http://www.blackinventor.com/
Encyclopedia Smithsonian - Engineering, Industry, and Invention	http://www.si.edu/encyclopedia_si/Science_and_Technology/EngineeringandIndustry_Technology.htm
Famous Women Inventors	http://www.women-inventors.com/
Free Patents Online	http://www.freepatentsonline.com/
Invention Dimension	http://web.mit.edu/invent/invent-main.html
Inventors' Digest Online	www.inventorsdigest.com
Invention Facts and Myths	http://www.ideafinder.com/history/of_inventions.htm
National Inventors Hall of Fame	http://www.invent.org/
New Scientist Invention Blog	http://www.time.com/time/2006/techguide/bestinventions/
US Patent Office - Independent Inventors Resources	www.uspto.gov/web/offices/com/iip/index.htm
Smithsonian Remembering American Inventors and Inventions	www.150.si.edu/150trav/remember/amerinv.htm
Time: Best Inventions 2006	http://www.time.com/time/2006/techguide/bestinventions/
United Inventors Association	http://www.uiausa.com/
Smith College Museum of Ancient Inventions	www.smith.edu/hsc/museum/ancient_inventions/hsclist.htm

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Search Terms / Electronic Resources
Listed below are terms you may wish to try using while searching various print and electronic resources.

Search Terms

Electronic Resources

Inventions
Creative ability in technology
Agricultural inventions
Inventors
Musical inventions and patents
Technological innovations
Technology transfer
Patents and government-developed inventions

Patent laws and legislation
Inventions, employees'
Inventions--History
Inventors in literature
Inventors on postage stamps
Children as inventors
Women inventors
Discoveries in science
Creative ability in science
Patent infringement
Patents

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Contact Information

Mailing Address:	Joanne Hayes-Rines Publisher, Inventors' Digest 30-31 Union Wharf Boston, MA 02109
Phone Number:	(617)367-4540
Fax Number:	(617) 723-6988
E-Mail Address:	joanne@inventorsdigest.com
Web Address:	www.inventorsdigest.com

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Content contributed July 2000 by Laura M. Wight.
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Last updated on 17 May 2007 by lmw.