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The Britannica Guide the World's Most Influential People Series

THE BG WORLDS MOST INFLUENTIAL PEOPLE SER: INVENTORS

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If necessity is indeed the mother of invention, then the individuals profiled in this volume should be considered the most laudable of all midwives. They each saw a need and met it. Readers will learn more about the lives and methodologies of well-known inventors such as Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Edison, and become familiar with several more whose creations have sometimes outstripped their personal fame.

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HIGH SCHOOL

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1380

Front Cover.
Half Title Page.
Title Page.
Copyright Page.
Contents.
Introduction.
1: Cro-Magnon.
2: Imhotep.
3: Archimedes.
4: Cai Lun.
5: Heron of Alexandria.
6: Johannes Gutenberg.
7: Christiaan Huygens.
8: Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek.
9: Benjamin Franklin.
10: James Watt.
11: Joseph and &#x00C9;tienne Montgolfier.
12: Alessandro Volta.
13: Joseph-Marie Jacquard.
14: John Loudon McAdam.
15: Nic&#x00E9;phore Ni&#x00E9;pce.
16: Robert Fulton.
17: Eli Whitney.
18: Alois Senefelder.
19: Sir William Congreve.
20: Ren&#x00E9; La&#x00EB;nnec.
21: George Stephenson.
22: Louis Daguerre.
23: Samuel F.B. Morse.
24: Charles Babbage.
25: Sir Rowland Hill.
26: Charles Goodyear.
27: John Deere.
28: Claude-&#x00C9;tienne Mini&#x00E9;.
29: Louis Braille.
30: Cyrus McCormick.
31: Elisha Graves Otis.
32: Sir Henry Bessemer.
33: Samuel Colt.
34: Richard J. Gatling.
35: James Starley.
36: Alfred Nobel.
37: John Wesley Hyatt.
38: Ferdinand von Zeppelin.
39: Georges Leclanch&#x00E9;.
40: Hiram Maxim.
41: John P. Holland.
42: Karl Benz and Gottlieb Daimler.
43: Wilhelm Conrad R&#x00F6;ntgen.
44: Thomas Edison.
45: Alexander Graham Bell.
46: Otto Lilienthal.
47: Emil Berliner.
48: Nikola Tesla.
49: Rudolf Diesel.
50: George Washington Carver.
51: James A. Naismith.
52: Auguste and Louis Lumi&#x00E8;re.
53: Henry Ford.
54: Reginald Fessenden.
55: Wilbur and Orville Wright.
56: Lee de Forest.
57: Guglielmo Marconi.
58: Robert Goddard.
59: Clarence Birdseye.
60: Igor Sikorsky.
61: Vladimir Zworykin.
62: Edwin H. Armstrong.
63: R. Buckminster Fuller.
64: Paul M&#x00FC;ller.
65: Ernest O. Lawrence.
66: Charles Stark Draper.
67: Walt Disney.
68: William P. Lear.
69: Felix Wankel.
70: John von Neumann.
71: Chester F. Carlson.
72: Grace Murray Hopper.
73: Frank Whittle.
74: John Mauchly and J. Presper Eckert.
75: Edward Teller.
76: Michael Debakey.
77: Willard Libby.
78: Edwin Herbert Land.
79: Virginia Apgar.
80: Leo Fender.
81: William Shockley, John Bardeen, and Walter Brattain.
82: Wernher von Braun.
83: Charles Townes.
84: Gertrude B. Elion.
85: Frederick Sanger.
86: Tom Kilburn.
87: Stephanie Kwolek.
88: Douglas Engelbart.
89: Robert Noyce.
90: Ron Toomer.
91: Heinrich Rohrer and Gerd Binnig.
92: Paul Lauterbur and Peter Mansfield.
93: Robert Kahn and Vint Cerf.
94: Ian Wilmut.
95: Rodney Brooks.
96: Steve Jobs and Stephen Wozniak.
97: Tim Berners-Lee.
98: Bill Gates.
99: Linus Torvalds.
100: Sergey Brin and Larry Page.
Glossary.
For Further Reading.
Index.

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