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Inventors, Invention, and Innovation: Digital Resources

By Kyle D. Winward

Digital Resources

Bellis, Mary. “Important Innovations and Inventions, Past and Present.” ThoughtCo, 2017. www.thoughtco.com/a-to-z-inventors-4140564/

Keenan, Greta, and Kate Whiting. “Emerging Technology: 10 Years of Top Tech Trends and How They’ve Changed the World.” World Economic Forum. October 25, www.weforum.org/agenda/2021/10/top-emerging-technologies-10-years/

Han, Yoonji. “The Black Scientists behind the Manhattan Project, the Atomic Bomb Program That Inspired the Movie ‘Oppenheimer.’” Business Insider, July 19, 2023. www.businessinsider.com/manhattan-project-oppenheimer-black-scientists-history-atomic-bomb-science-2023-7

McGrath, Katie and Jenny Hawkinson. “The Women behind the Manhattan Project That Nolan’s New Film Oppenheimer Completely Ignored.” Business Insider, July 23, 2023. www.businessinsider.com/women-manhattan-project-christopher-nolan-oppenheimer-completely-ignored-2023-7/

“The Most Famous Inventions the Past 69 Years Have Given Us.” Popular Mechanics.  www.popularmechanics.com/technology/g24668233/best-inventions/

Rothwell, Jonathan, Andre M. Perry, and Mike Andrews. “The Black Innovators Who Elevated the United States: Reassessing the Golden Age of Invention.” Brookings, November 23, 2020.  www.brookings.edu/articles/the-black-innovators-who-elevated-the-united-states-reassessing-the-golden-age-of-invention/

Smithsonian Institution. “African American Inventors.” Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation, 2023. www.invention.si.edu/tags/african-american-inventors/  

United Nations. Division of Sustainable Development Goals. sdgs.un.org/