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Inventions and Inventors

Design

Rockets

Energy

Magnetism and Magnetic Levitation

Automotive

*Inventions and Inventors*
National Inventors Hall of Fame	Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation	Invention Dimension -- From MIT.
Inventors: About.com	Inventing Modern America: From the Microwave to the Mouse -- From MIT.

Design
CORE 77: Industrial Design Supersite -- Articles, design news, profiles, and more.	R 20th Century Designer Biographies	IDEA Showcase -- Gallery of winners of the Industrial Design Excellence Awards (IDEA).
Metropolismag.com -- "Examines contemporary life through design--architecture, interior design, product design, graphic design, crafts, planning, and preservation."	Architect Studio 3D -- "On this Web site, you can design a house, walk through it in 3D, and then share it with the world."	ASEE Engineering Center -- From the American Society of Engineering Education.

Rockets
Argonne National Laboratory -- A U.S. Department of Energy laboratory operated by the University of Chicago	Introduction to Rocket Performance -- From the Aeronautics Learning Laboratory for Science, Technology, and Research.	Rocket and Space Technology
Beginner's Guide to Model Rockets -- From the Glenn Research Center, NASA	REPP -- The Renewable Energy Policy Project. Lots of information on alternative engergy sources.	American Petroleum Institute

Energy
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency	New York State Department of Environmental Conservation	U.S. Department of Energy
International Energy Agency -- "An autonomous agency linked with the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)."

*Magnetism and Magnetic Levitation*
Maglev R&D -- From the Railway Technical Research Institute in Japan.	Magnet Man -- "Devoted to magnetism and the cool experiments you can do with permanent magnets and electro-magnets."

Automotive

Automotive Learning On-line -- "100’s of graphics, thousands of descriptive links and animations."

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