Curley Robert (ed.) The 100 Most Influential Inventors of All Time

Britannica Educational Pub. in association with Rosen Educational Services, 2010. — 337 p. — (Britannica guide to the world's most influential people). — ISBN 9781615300426, 1615300422.It has been said that when it comes to success, it isn't what you know, but who you know. The 100 Most Influential Inventors of All Time is one title in this 8 book series, in which readers get the best of both worlds. Concise but information-packed biographies detail the lives and life's work of hundreds of leading individuals from an assortment of disciplines. Readers will get to know the foremost minds within science, art, writing, music, invention, politics and philosophy. Each valuable compendium offers a comprehensive index, complementary visuals, and behind-the-scenes details that revea.Introduction.
What inspires invention?
The inventors.
Cro-magnon.
Imhotep.
Archimedes.
Cai Lun.
Heron of Alexandria.
Johannes Gutenberg.
Life.
Invention of the press.
Printing of the bible.
Christiaan Huygens.
Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek.
Benjamin Franklin.
Early life.
Youthful adventures.
Achievement of security and fame.
Scientific studies.
Public service in later life.
James Watt.
Education and training.
The watt engine.
Later years.
Joseph and Étienne Montgolfier.
Alessandro Volta.
Joseph-Marie Jacquard.
John Loudon Mcadam.
Nicéphore Niépce.
Robert Fulton.
Maiden Voyage.
Eli Whitney.
Alois Senefelder.
Sir William Congreve.
René Laënnec.
George Stephenson.
Louis Daguerre.
Samuel F.B. Morse.
Charles Babbage.
The analytical engine.
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.
A paradoxical figure.
John Wesley Hyatt.
Ferdinand von Zeppelin.
Georges Leclanché.
Hiram Maxim.
John P. Holland.
Karl Benz and Gottlieb Daimler.
Karl Benz.
Gottlieb Daimler.
Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen.
Thomas Edison.
Early years.
Menlo park.
The phonograph.
The electric light.
The Edison laboratory.
Assessment.
Alexander Graham Bell.
Beyond the telephone.
Otto Lilienthal.
Emil Berliner.
Nikola Tesla.
Rudolf Diesel.
George Washington Carver.
James A. Naismith.
Auguste and Louis Lumière.
Henry Ford.
Early life.
Going into business.
The model T and the assembly line.
Reginald Fessenden.
Wilbur and Orville wright.
Early family life.
Printers and bicycle makers.
Early glider experiments.
Solving the problems of lift and control.
Powered, sustained flight.
Making the invention public.
Going into business.
Orville carries on the legacy.
Lee de Forest.
Life.
Invention of the audion tube.
Other inventions.
Guglielmo Marconi.
Education and early work.
Major discoveries and innovations.
Robert Goddard.
Early life and training.
Research in Massachusetts.
Experiments at Roswell.
Clarence Birdseye.
Igor Sikorsky.
Education and early career.
Work in the United States.
Vladimir Zworykin.
Edwin H. Armstrong.
Early life.
Invention of Fm Broadcasting.
R. Buckminster Fuller.
Life.
Assessment.
Paul Müller.
Ernest O. Lawrence.
Charles Stark Draper.
Walt Disney.
Early life.
First animated cartoons.
Feature-length cartoons.
Major films and television productions.
Disneyland.
Assessment.
William P. Lear.
Felix Wankel.
John von Neumann.
Early life and mathematical career.
World war II and after.
Chester F. Carlson.
Grace Murray Hopper.
Frank Whittle.
John Mauchly and J. Presper Eckert.
John Mauchly.
J. Presper Eckert.
Edward Teller.
Michael Debakey.
Willard Libby.
Edwin Herbert Land.
Virginia Apgar.
Leo Fender.
William Shockley, John Bardeen, and Walter Brattain.
William Shockley.
John Bardeen.
Walter Brattain.
Wernher von Braun.
Early life.
Work in the United States.
Charles Townes.
Gertrude B. Elion.
Frederick Sanger.
Education.
Insulin research.
RNA research.
DNA research.
Additional honours.
Tom Kilburn.
Stephanie Kwolek.
Douglas Engelbart.
Robert Noyce.
Education.
Shockley semiconductor laboratory.
Fairchild semiconductor corporation and the integrated circuit.
Intel corporation.
Statesman.
Ron Toomer.
Heinrich Rohrer and Gerd Binnig.
Heinrich Rohrer.
Gerd Binnig.
Paul Lauterbur and Peter Mansfield.
Paul Lauterbur.
Peter Mansfield.
Robert Kahn and Vint Cerf.
Robert Kahn.
Vint Cerf.
Ian Wilmut.
Education and cryopreservation research.
Genetic engineering and cloning research.
Pharming.
Nuclear transfer.
Dolly and Polly.
Later career.
Rodney Brooks.
Steve Jobs and Stephen Wozniak.
Steve Jobs.
Founding of Apple.
Insanely Great.
Next and Pixar.
Saving Apple.
Reinventing Apple.
Health issues.
Stephen Wozniak.
Tim Berners-Lee.
Bill Gates.
Linus Torvalds.
Sergey Brin and Larry Page.
Sergey Brin.
Larry Page.
Glossary.
For further reading.