THE 100 MOST INFLUENTIAL INVENTORS OF ALL TIME

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The 100 most influential inventors of all time / edited by Robert Curley.--1st ed. p. cm.--(The Britannica guide to the world's most influential people)

"In association with Britannica Educational Publishing, Rosen Educational Services." Includes index. ISBN 978-1-61530-042-6 (eBook) 1. Inventors--Biography--Popular works. 2. Inventions--History--Popular works. I. Curley, Robert, 1955? II. Title: One hundred most influential inventors of all time. T39.A14 2010 609.2'2--dc22

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CONTENTS

Introduction

8

Cro-Magnon

17

Imhotep

19

Archimedes

21

Cai Lun

22

Heron of Alexandria

23

Johannes Gutenberg

26

Christiaan Huygens

31

Antonie van Leeuwenhoek

35

Benjamin Franklin

38

James Watt

48

Joseph and ?tienne Montgolfier 52

Alessandro Volta

54

Joseph-Marie Jacquard

56

John Loudon McAdam

57

Nic?phore Ni?pce

59

Robert Fulton

61

Eli Whitney

66

Alois Senefelder

69

Sir William Congreve

70

Ren? La?nnec

71

George Stephenson

75

Louis Daguerre

77

Samuel F.B. Morse

79

Charles Babbage

83

Sir Rowland Hill

88

Charles Goodyear

89

John Deere

91

Claude-?tienne Mini?

92

Louis Braille

94

Cyrus McCormick

96

Elisha Graves Otis

99

Sir Henry Bessemer

100

Samuel Colt

103

Richard J. Gatling

105

25 50

66

James Starley

106

Alfred Nobel

108

John Wesley Hyatt

113

Ferdinand von Zeppelin

115

Georges Leclanch?

118

Hiram Maxim

120

John P. Holland

123

Karl Benz and Gottlieb

Daimler

124

Wilhelm Conrad R?ntgen

128

Thomas Edison

129

Alexander Graham Bell

142

Otto Lilienthal

148

Emil Berliner

150

Nikola Tesla

151

Rudolf Diesel

155

George Washington Carver

156

James A. Naismith

160

Auguste and Louis Lumi?re

162

Henry Ford

163

Reginald Fessenden

168

Wilbur and Orville Wright

170

Lee de Forest

182

Guglielmo Marconi

186

Robert Goddard

192

Clarence Birdseye

196

Igor Sikorsky

197

Vladimir Zworykin

202

Edwin H. Armstrong

204

R. Buckminster Fuller

207

Paul M?ller

212

Ernest O. Lawrence

213

Charles Stark Draper

215

Walt Disney

218

William P. Lear

224

Felix Wankel

226

John von Neumann

227

95 119

148

Chester F. Carlson

233

Grace Murray Hopper

234

Frank Whittle

236

John Mauchly and

J. Presper Eckert

237

Edward Teller

240

Michael DeBakey

244

Willard Libby

246

Edwin Herbert Land

249

Virginia Apgar

251

Leo Fender

252

William Shockley, John Bardeen,

and Walter Brattain

253

Wernher von Braun

257

Charles Townes

261

Gertrude B. Elion

263

Frederick Sanger

264

Tom Kilburn

270

Stephanie Kwolek

272

Douglas Engelbart

274

Robert Noyce

276

Ron Toomer

279

Heinrich Rohrer and

Gerd Binnig

280

Paul Lauterbur and

Peter Mansfield

283

Robert Kahn and Vint Cerf

286

Ian Wilmut

290

Rodney Brooks

297

Steve Jobs and Stephen Wozniak 299

Tim Berners-Lee

308

Bill Gates

310

Linus Torvalds

313

Sergey Brin and Larry Page

315

Glossary

318

For Further Reading

322

Index

324

235

308 315

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