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The 100 most influential inventors of all time / edited by Robert Curley.

Contributor(s): Curley, Robert, 1955- [edt].
Material type: TextTextSeries: The Britannica guide to the world's most influential people.Publisher: New York, NY : Britannica Educational Pub. in association with Rosen Educational Services, c2010Edition: 1st ed.Description: 336 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.ISBN: 9781615300037.Other title: One hundred most influential inventors of all time | Hundred most influential inventors of all time.Subject(s): Inventors -- Biography -- Popular works | Inventions -- History -- Popular worksDDC classification: 609.22 Online resources: e-book
Contents:
Introduction -- 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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Includes bibliographical references (p. 322-323) and index.

Introduction -- 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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