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The 100 most influential inventors of all time /

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The 100 most influential inventors of all time /

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edited by Robert Curley.

1st ed.

New York, NY :

Britannica Educational Pub. in association with Rosen Educational Services,

©2010.

336 pages :

illustrations ;

24 cm.

The Britannica guide to the world's most influential people

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

Cro-Magnon -- Imhotep -- Archimedes -- Cai Lun -- Heron of Alexandria -- Johannes Gutenberg -- Christiaan Huygens -- Antonie van Leeuwenhoek -- Benjamin Franklin -- James Watt -- Joseph and Étienne Montgolfier -- Alessandro Volta -- Joseph-Marie Jacquard -- John Loudon McAdam -- Nicéphore Niépce -- Robert Fulton -- Eli Whitney -- Alois Senefelder -- Sir William Congreve -- René Laënnec -- George Stephenson -- Louis Daguerre -- Samuel F.B. Morse -- Charles Babbage -- Sir Rowland Hill -- Charles Goodyear -- John Deere -- Claude-Étienne Minié -- 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 Leclanché -- Hiram Maxim -- John P. Holland -- Karl Benz and Gottlieb Daimler -- Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen -- Thomas Edison -- Alexander Graham Bell -- Otto Lilienthal -- Emil Berliner -- Nikola Tesla -- Rudlof Kiesel -- George Washington Carver -- James A. Naismith -- Auguste and Louis Lumiére -- 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 Müller -- 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.

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Chronologically arranged entries profile one hundred of the world's most influential inventors from ancient times through the twentieth century.

Hundred most influential inventors of all time

One hundred most influential inventors of all time

Inventions-- History, Popular works.

Inventors, Biography, Popular works.

Inventors, Biography, Popular works.

Inventions-- History.

Inventions.

Inventors, Biography.

Inventors.

Curley, Robert,1955-

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