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Great Lives from History: Inventors & Inventions, Second Edition

Table of Contents

Volume 1



Publisher’s Note


Editor’s Introduction


Contributors


Key to Pronunciation


List of Inventions


Complete List of Contents


Abbas ibn Firnas


Edward Goodrich Acheson


Stewart Adams


George Biddell Airy


George Edward Alcorn


Samuel Alderson


Ernst Alexanderson


Luis W. Álvarez


Marc Andreessen


James Roger Prior Angel


Archimedes


Aristotle


Sir Richard Arkwright


Edwin H. Armstrong


Arthur James Arnot


John Vincent Atanasoff


Hertha Marks Ayrton


Charles Babbage


Roger Bacon


Leo Hendrik Baekeland


Alexander Bain


Benjamin Banneker


Paul Baran


John Bardeen


Patricia Bath


Andrew Jackson Beard


Maria Beasley


J. Georg Bednorz


Semi Joseph Begun


Georg von Békésy


Alexander Graham Bell


Melitta Bentz


Carl Benz


Evelyn Berezin


Friedrich Bergius


Emile Berliner


Tim Berners-Lee


Clifford Berry


Sir Henry Bessemer


Edwin Binney


Gerd Binnig


Clarence Birdseye


Henry Blair


Katharine Burr Blodgett


Marie Anne Victoire Boivin


Joseph-Armand Bombardier


H. Cecil Booth


Anita Borg


Carl Bosch


Walther Bothe


Bill Bowerman


Herbert Wayne Boyer


Otis Boykin


Willard S. Boyle


Louis Braille


Giovanni Branca


Jacques Edwin Brandenberger


Walter H. Brattain


Karl Ferdinand Braun


Wernher von Braun


John Moses Browning


William Bullock


Robert Wilhelm Bunsen


Luther Burbank


William Seward Burroughs


David Bushnell


Nolan K. Bushnell


Cai Lun


Robert Cailliau


John Campbell


Marvin Camras


Chester F. Carlson


Wallace Hume Carothers


Willis Carrier


George R. Carruthers


Edmund Cartwright


George Washington Carver


George Cayley


Vinton Gray Cerf


Georges Claude


Roy Clay Sr.


Josephine Garis Cochran


Sir Christopher Cockerell


Stanley Norman Cohen


Samuel Colt


William Fothergill Cooke


William David Coolidge


Martin Cooper


Peter Cooper


Martha J. Coston


Frederick Gardner Cottrell


Jacques Cousteau


Joshua Lionel Cowen


Seymour Cray


Bartolomeo Cristofori


Sir William Crookes


Caresse Crosby


Ctesibius of Alexandria


Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot


Glenn H. Curtiss


Jacques Daguerre


Gottlieb Daimler


Nils Gustaf Dalén


Raymond Damadian


Abraham Darby


Sir Humphry Davy


Mark Dean


John Deere


Lee De Forest


Sir James Dewar


Rudolf Diesel


Walt Disney


Carl Djerassi


Herbert Henry Dow


Charles Stark Draper


Charles Richard Drew


Richard G. Drew


John Boyd Dunlop


Volume 2



Key to Pronunciation


List of Inventions


Complete List of Contents


George Eastman


John Presper Eckert


Harold E. Edgerton


Thomas Alva Edison


Albert Einstein


Willem Einthoven


Gertrude Belle Elion


Philip Emeagwali


John Ericsson


Oliver Evans


Tony Fadell


Federico Faggin


Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit


Michael Faraday


Philo T. Farnsworth


Pierre Fauchard


James Fergason


Enrico Fermi


Reginald Aubrey Fessenden


Charles Fey


John Fitch


Edith Flanigen


Henry Ford


Jay Wright Forrester


Léon Foucault


Benjamin Franklin


Joseph von Fraunhofer


Helen M. Free


Calvin Fuller


R. Buckminster Fuller


Robert Fulton


Dennis Gabor


Ashok Gadgil


Galileo


Robert Charles Gallo


Bill Gates


Richard Gatling


Joseph-Louis Gay-Lussac


Hans Geiger


Leo Gerstenzang


Charles Geschke


Ivan A. Getting


William Francis Giauque


Lillian Evelyn Gilbreth


King Camp Gillette


Charles P. Ginsburg


Donald A. Glaser


Joseph Glidden


Robert H. Goddard


Leopold Godowsky, Jr.


Peter Carl Goldmark


Charles Goodyear


James Gosling


Gordon Gould


Meredith C. Gourdine


Bette Nesmith Graham


Elisha Gray


Wilson Greatbatch


James Gregory


Alfred J. Gross


Sir William Robert Grove


Otto von Guericke


Johann Gutenberg


Fritz Haber


Charles Martin Hall


H. Tracy Hall


James Hargreaves


Sir John Harington


John Harrison


Michael S. Hart


Oliver Heaviside


Hermann von Helmholtz


Beulah Louise Henry


Joseph Henry


Hero of Alexandria


Heinrich Hertz


Peter Cooper Hewitt


William Redington Hewlett


James Hillier


Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin


Richard March Hoe


Ted Hoff


John Philip Holland


Herman Hollerith


Nick Holonyak, Jr.


Robert Hooke


Erna Schneider Hoover


Grace Murray Hopper


John Alexander Hopps


Godfrey Newbold Hounsfield


Elias Howe


Huangdi


David Edward Hughes


Miller Reese Hutchison


Christiaan Huygens


Ida H. Hyde


Sumio Iijima


Shirley Ann Jackson


Van Jacobson


Karl G. Jansky


Zacharias Janssen


Robert Jarvik


Ali Javan


Al-Jazarī


Thomas Jefferson


Alec Jeffreys


Edward Jenner


Thomas L. Jennings


Steve Jobs


Eldridge R. Johnson


Nancy Johnson


Frederick McKinley Jones


Percy Lavon Julian


Bob Kahn


Dean Kamen


Heike Kamerlingh Onnes


Pyotr Leonidovich Kapitsa


Sheldon Kaplan


John Kay


John Harvey Kellogg


Lord Kelvin


Charles F. Kettering


Al-Khwārizmī


Jack St. Clair Kilby


Mary-Claire King


Peter T. Kirstein


Ewald Georg von Kleist


Margaret E. Knight


Willem Johan Kolff


Roscoe Koontz


Ray Kurzweil


Stephanie Kwolek


Volume 3



Key to Pronunciation


List of Inventions


Complete List of Contents


René-Théophile-Hyacinthe Laënnec


Edwin Herbert Land


Samuel Pierpont Langley


Irving Langmuir


Lewis Howard Latimer


Ernest Orlando Lawrence


Bill Lear


Hugh Le Caine


Robert Steven Ledley


Antoni van Leeuwenhoek


Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz


Emmett Leith


Jerome H. Lemelson


Étienne Lenoir


Louis-Sébastien Lenormand


Leonardo da Vinci


Willard F. Libby


Carl von Linde


Edwin Albert Link


Hans Lippershey


Gabriel Lippmann


M. Stanley Livingston


Antoine Louis


Auguste and Louis Lumière


Paul B. MacCready


Charles Macintosh


Lizzie Magie


Theodore Harold Maiman


Leopold Mannes


Guglielmo Marconi


Jan Ernst Matzeliger


John William Mauchly


Hiram Percy Maxim


Hiram Stevens Maxim


Hudson Maxim


John Loudon McAdam


Cyrus Hall McCormick


Elijah McCoy


George W. McGill


Dimitry Ivanovich Mendeleyev


Gerardus Mercator


Ottmar Mergenthaler


Georges de Mestral


Robert Metcalfe


André and Édouard Michelin


John Milne


Paul Mockapetris


Joseph Monier


Joseph-Michel and Jacques-Étienne Montgolfier


Robert Moog


Garrett Augustus Morgan


Mary Sherman Morgan


Samuel F. B. Morse


Erwin Wilhelm Müller


Karl Alexander Müller


Kary B. Mullis


William Murdock


Pieter van Musschenbroek


Shuji Nakamura


Naomi L. Nakao


John Napier


James Nasmyth


Henri Nestlé


Thomas Newcomen


Sir Isaac Newton


Nicéphore Niépce


Alfred Nobel


Robert Norton Noyce


Victor Leaton Ochoa


Hans Joachim Pabst von Ohain


Ransom Eli Olds


Ken Olsen


J. Robert Oppenheimer


Elisha Graves Otis


Nikolaus August Otto


Stanford Ovshinsky


Joseph Owades


Larry Page


Charles Parsons


Blaise Pascal


Louis Pasteur


Ruth Patrick


Les Paul


Gerald Pearson


John Stith Pemberton


Radia Perlman


Rosalind Picard


John R. Pierce


Roy J. Plunkett


Joseph Priestley


Ptolemy


George Mortimer Pullman


Jacob Rabinow


Jesse Ramsden


Ira Remsen


Jesse W. Reno


Charles Francis Richter


Norbert Rillieux


Dennis Ritchie


John Augustus Roebling


Heinrich Rohrer


Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen


Sylvester Roper


Ernst Ruska


James Russell


Burt Rutan


Jonas Salk


Jean Sammet


Henry Thomas Sampson


Santorio Santorio


Thomas Savery


Arthur L. Schawlow


Jacob Schick


Bernhard Voldemar Schmidt


Eugène Schueller


Ignaz Schwinn


Glenn Theodore Seaborg


Claude Elwood Shannon


John C. Sheehan


Patsy O’Connell Sherman


William Shockley


Christopher Latham Sholes


Alan Shugart


Werner Siemens


Igor Sikorsky


Isaac Merrit Singer


Lanny Smoot


James Murray Spangler


Percy L. Spencer


Elmer Ambrose Sperry


Frank J. Sprague


Rangaswamy Srinivasan


Charles Proteus Steinmetz


George Stephenson


John Stevens


George Stibitz


Robert Stirling


Alice Stoll


Levi Strauss


Bjarne Stroustrup


William Sturgeon


Theodor Svedberg


Joseph Wilson Swan


Leo Szilard


Volume 4



Key to Pronunciation


List of Inventions


Complete List of Contents


Toyoichi Tanaka


Charles E. Taylor


Maria Telkes


Edward Teller


Paul Terasaki


Nikola Tesla


Valerie L. Thomas


Benjamin Thompson


John T. Thompson


Ken Thompson


Elihu Thomson


Max Tishler


Evangelista Torricelli


Charles Hard Townes


Sakichi Toyoda


Richard Trevithick


Konstantin Tsiolkovsky


Jethro Tull


Andrei Nikolayevich Tupolev


Earl S. Tupper


Alan Mathison Turing


Mark Twain


John Tyndall


Lewis Urry


Guido van Rossum


Jacques de Vaucanson


Jeanne Villepreux-Power


Alessandro Volta


Faust Vrančić


Selman Abraham Waksman


Madam C. J. Walker


Sir Alan Walsh


Ernest Thomas Sinton Walton


An Wang


Taylor Gunjin Wang


Felix Wankel


John Warnock


Lewis Waterman


Sir Robert Alexander Watson-Watt


James Watt


George Westinghouse


Don Wetzel


Charles Wheatstone


Willis Whitfield


Eli Whitney


Sir Frank Whittle


Otto Wichterle


Sheila Widnall


Maurice Wilkes


Frederic Williams


Paul Winchell


Alexander Winton


Niklaus Wirth


Granville T. Woods


Steve Wozniak


Frank Lloyd Wright


Wilbur and Orville Wright


Rosalyn Yalow


Ferdinand von Zeppelin


Xiaowei Zhuang


Richard Zsigmondy


Konrad Zuse


Vladimir Zworykin


Appendixes



History of U.S. Patent Law


Chronological List of Entries


Timeline


Biographical Directory of Inventors


Electronic Resources


Bibliography


Indexes



Category Index


Place of Birth Index