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A History of the United States Patent Office, by Jason O. Watson
M-CAM, April 17, 2001
http://www.m-cam.com/~watsonj/usptohistory.html

United States Patent and Trademark Office
http://www.uspto.gov/web/offices/ac/ahrpa/opa/kids/special/kidhello.html

Black Inventors
http://inventors.about.com/library/blblackinventors.htm

Columbia History-Columbia Bicycles
http://www.columbiabikes.com/detpages/10009.html

The First Patent of Elijah McCoy, a turn-of-the-century black inventor
http://www.usi.edu/science/engineering/MISC/emccoy/emccoy.htm

The Inventive Thinking Curriculum Project
http://www.pravel.com/docs/inventive%20thinking.pdf

Inventors’ Hall of Fame
http://www.invent.org/hall_of_fame/136.html

Invention of Silly Putty
http://www.ideafinder.com/history/inventions/story020.htm

More about Bell: A Family Affair
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/telephone/peopleevents

Patent Battles
http://www.pbs.org/transistor/background1/events/patbat.html

Patent Law: An Overview
http://www.law.cornell.edu/topics/patent.html

The 212th Anniversary of the First American Patent Act
http://inventors.about.com/library/weekly/aa073100a.htm

What You Need to Know about Inventors with Mary Bellis
http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors

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