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1 online resource. |
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Britannica guide to the world's most influential people.
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Electronic 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 |
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Brooks -- Steve Jobs and Stephen Wozniak -- Tim Berners-Lee -- Bill Gates -- Linus Torvalds -- Sergey Brin and Larry Page. |
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Electronic reproduction. Chicago Britannica Educational Publishing 2010 Available via World Wide Web. |
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Inventors -- Biography -- Popular works.
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Inventions -- History -- Popular works.
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Electronic books.
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Curley, Robert, 1955- editor.
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OverDrive, Inc., distributor.
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| Added Title |
One hundred most influential inventors of all time |
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Hundred most influential inventors of all time |
| ISBN |
9781615300426 (electronic bk.) |
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