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The 100 most influential inventors of all time

9781615300037 )lib. bdg.(

The 100 most influential inventors of all time

edited by Robert Curley

1st ed.

New York, NY

Britannica Educational Pub. in association with Rosen Educational Services,

c2010

336 p. : ill.

The Britannica guide to the world's most influential people

Introduction -- Cro-Magnon -- Imhotep -- Archimedes -- Cai Lun -- Heron of Alexandria -- Johannes Gutenberg -- Christiaan Huygens -- Antonie van Leeuwenhoek -- Benjamin Franklin -- James Watt -- Joseph and aEtienne Montgolfier -- Alessandro Volta -- Joseph-Marie Jacquard -- John Loudon McAdam -- Nicaephore Niaepce -- Robert Fulton -- Eli Whitney -- Alois Senefelder -- Sir William Congreve -- Renae Laeennec -- George Stephenson -- Louis Daguerre -- Samuel F.B. Morse -- Charles Babbage -- Sir Rowland Hill -- Charles Goodyear -- John Deere -- Claude-aEtienne Miniae -- Louis Braille -- Cyrus McCormick -- Elisha Graves Otis -- Sir Henry Bessemer -- Samuel Colt -- Richard J. Gatling -- James Starley -- Alfred Nobel -- John Wesley Hyatt -- Ferdinand von Zeppelin -- Georges Leclanchae -- Hiram Maxim -- John P. Holland -- Karl Benz and Gottlieb Daimler -- Wilhelm Conrad Reontgen -- Thomas Edison -- Alexander Graham Bell -- Otto Lilienthal -- Emil Berliner -- Nikola Tesla -- Rudlof Kiesel -- George Washington Carver -- James A. Naismith -- Auguste and Louis Lumiaere -- Henry Ford -- Reginald Fessenden -- Wilbur and Orville Wright -- Lee de Forest -- Guglielmo Marconi -- Robert Goddard -- Clarence Birdseye -- Igor Sikorsky -- Vladimir Zworykin -- Edwin H. Armstrong -- R. Buckminster Fuller -- Paul Meuller -- Ernest O. Lawrence -- Charles Stark Draper -- Walt Disney -- William P. Lear -- Felix Wankel -- John von Neumann -- Chester F. Carlson -- Grace Murray Hopper -- Frank Whittle -- John Mauchly and J. Presper Eckert -- Edward Teller -- Michael DeBakey -- Willard Libby -- Edwin Herbert Land -- Virginia Apgar -- Leo Fender -- William Shockley, John Bardeen, and Walter Brattain -- Wernher von Braun -- Charles Townes -- Gertrude B. Elion -- Frederick Sanger -- Tom Kilburn -- Stephanie Kwolek -- Douglas Engelbart -- Robert Noyce -- Ron Toomer -- Heinrich Rohrer and Gerd Binnig -- Paul Lauterbur and Peter Mansfield -- Robert Kahn and Vint Cerf -- Ian Wilmut -- Rodney Brooks -- Steve Jobs and Stephen Wozniak -- Tim Berners-Lee -- Bill Gates -- Linus Torvalds -- Sergey Brin and Larry Page.

Includes bibliographical references )p. 322-323( and index.

Inventors^aBiography--Popular works

Inventions^aHistory--Popular works

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Title: One hundred most influential inventors of all time

Title: Hundred most influential inventors of all time

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