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Inventors & Inventions

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Use the arrow keys to move between letters. Press Enter or Space on the first letter of a word, then again on the last letter. Press Escape to cancel.

A few of the words

PATENT
The U.S. Patent Office issued its very first patent in 1790, signed by President George Washington himself.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
FILAMENT
Edison tested over 6,000 materials before settling on a carbonized bamboo filament that kept his lightbulb burning for over 1,200 hours.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
DYNAMO
A dynamo converts mechanical energy into electrical current, the beating heart of the early power stations Edison built in the 1880s.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
TESLA
Nikola Tesla held around 300 patents across multiple countries, covering everything from AC motors to early radio technology.Find this word in the grid to read its note.

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Inventors & Inventions: a free large-print word search

Inventors & Inventions word search, free and large-print. From Edison's workshop to Bell's first call, celebrate the spark of American ingenuity.

About Inventors & Inventions

The great inventors of the 19th century didn't just tinker, they reshaped everyday life in ways that still hum around us. Thomas Edison's Menlo Park laboratory became the world's first industrial research workshop, turning imagination into working prototypes at a breathtaking pace. Alexander Graham Bell's telephone and Nikola Tesla's visionary work on alternating current lit a rivalry of ideas whose glow has never really faded.

How to play

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    Find a word.Tap its first letter, then tap along to its last — the trail fills in and finishes itself when it spells a word. Or press the first letter and drag.
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    Words run in straight lines.Across and down, and on the harder difficulties diagonally and backwards.
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    It marks itself.Each word you find takes on its own soft colour on the grid and is crossed off the list.
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    Choose a difficulty.Relaxed, Classic or Challenging set those directions and how much the word list helps — never the grid size. Tap the A buttons at the top to enlarge the letters, or pinch the grid.

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