Here are some websites and resources that might be helpful while creating your invention
Some examples of student inventions:
http://www.ih.k12.oh.us/msherrmann/Invent2.htm
http://www.auburn.wednet.edu/homepages/dscobee/fourthgradeinventionfair.html
Famous Inventors:
http://invention.smithsonian.org/home/main_feature_all.aspx
http://americanhistory.si.edu/archives/d8769.htm
http://inventors.about.com/od/astartinventors/a/Famous_Inventor.htm
http://www.americaslibrary.gov/cgi-bin/page.cgi/aa/scientists/edison/fail_1
http://www.women-inventors.com/
http://web.mit.edu/afs/athena.mit.edu/org/i/invent/h-main.html
http://www.bkfk.com/
http://www.invent.org/