History Inventions Inventors

---

Inventors and their Inventions

Famous inventors who changed the world!

Are you learning about famous inventors and their inventions this term? We can help you find a trip out or an in-school workshop that will bring inventions to life for your class.

Teach them about the local, British or international people who came up with these new ideas! From prehistory to the modern day, history is filled with innovators who had a good idea or solved a problem that changed life for the rest of us. Inventions like the printing press, the steam engine, or the computer.

The obvious place to start is with significant inventors like Alexander Bell, Nikola Tesla, Thomas Edison or Isambard Kingdom Brunel, people we all know. But there are plenty of less well remembered inventors who made incredibly valuable contributions - people like James Hargreaves, Margaret Hamilton and Stephanie Kwolek.

Inventors is a wonderful topic as it can bring together cross curricular links for subjects including science, history, design and technology, art and literacy.

As well as the inventors and their inventions, we can focus your class on what makes a good inventor, how inventions changed over time, how they made people's lives easier, and how these inventions changed history.

Workshops can extend the topic by challenging them to problem solve specific ideas, to design and evaluate a solution, to get them to channel their inner inventor!