From the Smithsonian National Museum of American History's Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention, links to archives and other sources in the U.S. and Canada for documentation about the work of major inventors. The Lemelson Center sponsors a variety of other useful sources relating to the design and invention process.
Declassified U. S. government documents, including correspondence and memoranda, technical studies, national security policy statements and intelligence reports. Documents date from 1946 through 2002.
NSF-funded clearinghouse offing many resources relating to engineering ethics, including potential teaching materials such as case studies. The site developed in response to the clause in the America Competes Act requirements for ethical conduct for grant applicants.
Assisted by NSF funding, the CEES is a joint project of the National Academy of Engineering and the Ethics Education Library (EEL) at the Center for the Study of Ethics in the Professions at the Illinois Institute of Technology and features case studies, teaching tools, and other sources.