Links to Related Websites
- Official Belle of Louisville website
- Look to this site for history, video, and information about cruises and resources from the Belle's education director: www.belleoflouisville.org
- Scale City: The Road to Proportional Reasoning
- This fun filled site created by KET for students grades-5-8, explores amazing Kentucky roadside attractions while teaching about the mathematics of scale. At each stop, a short video field trip and a fun interactive simulation help you understand proportional reasoning. One of these field trips looks at the Belle's calliope and how its music relates to proportional reasoning. www.scalecity.org
- Steamboats.org
- A treasure trove of information on steamboats in the United States including the Belle: www.steamboats.org
- Steamboats.com
- A virtual online steamboat museum with photos, art, steamboat mysteries, model boats, and research information: www.steamboats.com
- The National Parks Service - Maritime Heritage Program
- Good source of factual information about the Belle including technical details about her construction: www.nps.gov/history/maritime/nhl/belle.htm
- Twaintimes site
- A timeline of the life of Samuel Lanhorne Clemens (Mark Twain) with pages of steamboat information including virtual models: www.twaintimes.net
- About.Com - Inventors
- Articles on the invention of the steamboat with biographies of the inventors who led to its creation: inventors.about.com/od/sstartinventions/a/Steamboats.htm
- Inland Navigation: Connecting the New Republic 1790-1840
- articles on Robert Fulton and Henry Miller Shreve: xroads.virginia.edu/~HYPER/DETOC/transport/front.html
- PBS - They Made America / Who Made America? Innovators
- Information about John Fitch and Robert Fulton: www.pbs.org/wgbh/theymadeamerica/filmmore/s1.html
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