Sub-Topics
Flywheels
Simple Machines
Also Try
- Inventors
- Patents and Trademarks
- Physics
Lesson Plans
- Airships (UCLA News - Brown)
Describes lighter-than-air aircraft. 1-02
Lists
- Aviation - Types of Airplanes (About.com - Bowles)
Provides information by type of plane. 3-01
- Electric Cars (Awesome Library)
Provides sources of information on electric cars and other electric vehicles. 1-02
- Fuel Cell Power (Awesome Library)
Provides sources of information. 1-02
- Hydroelectric and Wave Power (Awesome Library)
Provides sources of information. 1-02
- Inventors (Awesome Library)
Provides sources of information. 1-02
- Patents and Trademarks (Awesome Library)
Provides sources of information. 1-02
- Quadcycles (Awesome Library)
Provides sources of information. 1-02
- Recumbent Bicycles (Awesome Library)
Provides sources of information. 1-02
- Solar Power (Awesome Library)
Provides sources of information. 1-02
- Tricycles and Tricycling (Awesome Library)
Provides sources of information. 1-02
- Wind Power (Awesome Library)
Provides sources of information. 1-02
Papers
- Airships - Causes of the Hindenberg Airship Crash (UCLA News - Brown)
Describes recent research that shows that the chemicals on the skin of the aircraft, not the hydrogen, caused the fire. 1-02
- Airships - Hindenberg Airship Crash (Hitter)
Describes the zeppelin blimp that crashed when it arrived in the USA. Discusses possible causes of the explosion that set the airship in flames. Editor's Note - Recent research as shown that chemicals on the skin of the aircraft, not the hydrogen, caused the fire. 1-02
- Airships - Hindenberg Airship Crash (Widner)
Describes the radio broadcast of the crash of the Hindenberg airship, an event that is believed to have stopped airship travel. 1-02
- Aviation - Wilbur and Orville Wright's Plane Development (PBS.org)
"How is it that two bicycle-shop owners from Dayton, Ohio, managed to do what many others before them had tried but failed to do -- invent the airplane?" 11-03
- Aviation - Wright, Wilbur and Orville (Bradshaw)
"During the years 1900, 1901, 1902, and 1903, the two brothers developed the first effective airplane." 11-03
- Commuting Alternatives (Awesome Library)
Provides an analysis of options and then gives recommendations. 1-02
- Gadgets (Hammacher Schlemmer)
Provides descriptions and pictures of gadgets. 11-02
- Sewing Machines - How Sewing Machines Work (HowStuffWorks.com)
Shows how a sewing machine works. 2-02
Projects
- Radios - Building an AM Radio (Xtal Set Society)
Provides instructions and diagrams for building a complete crystal radio in a Quaker Oats box. 1-02
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