Quests:

• How do inventions and events influence each other?
• How has nature influenced the development of new inventions? Describe some inventions that were inspired by a natural object or event.
• What are the advantages and disadvantages of working as an inventor for a large company?
• Describe how inventions mirror the civilizations in which they were created.
• Do the times make the inventor or does the inventor make the times?
• What period in history has witnessed the output of the most inventions? Why?
• What traits do most inventors have in common? What other professions share these traits?

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Related Resources:

• From Indian Corn to Outer Space: Women Invent in America by Ellen H. Showell and Fred M. B. Amram. $19.50. Order No. 417
  
• Girls and Young Women Inventing by Frances A. Karnes and Suzanne M. Beam. $12.95. Order No. 418
  
• Steven Caney's Invention Book by Steven Caney. $12.95. Order No. 501
• Inventors: A Library of Congress Book by Martin W. Sandler. Published by HarperTrophy.
• They All Laughed . . . From Light Bulbs to Lasers: The Fascinating Stories Behind the Great Inventions that Have Changed Our Lives by Ira Flatow. Published by Houghton Mifflin.