THE 100 MOST INFLUENTIAL INVENTORS OF ALL TIME

...

...

...

Published in 2010 by Britannica Educational Publishing (a trademark of Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.) in association with Rosen ...

CONTENTS ...

...

- Introduction Cro-Magnon Imhotep Archimedes Cai Lun Heron of Alexandria Johannes Gutenberg Christiaan Huygens Anton ...

Introduction ...

7 Introduction 7 J ust a few hundred years ago, life was far different than it is today. When people wanted to travel or communi ...

7 The 100 Most Influential Inventors of All Time 7 work (and play) at night. Braille made it possible for blind people to read. ...

7 Introduction 7 ever want to use one of them?” he scoffed. In 1968, the audience attending a computer conference at the San Fra ...

7 The 100 Most Influential Inventors of All Time 7 Intelligence and curiosity are unquestionably important assets for inventors, ...

7 Introduction 7 stove. He discovered that instead of melting, the rubber became more elastic. Thus was the vulcanization proces ...

7 The 100 Most Influential Inventors of All Time 7 Frederick Sanger was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry twice: once in 1958 ...

7 Introduction 7 Some of these inventions may never make headlines or revolutionize the world, but they will all have an effect ...

...

7 Cro-Magnon 7 Cro-Magnon C ro-Magnon was a population of early Homo sapiens dating from the Upper Paleolithic Period (c. 40, to ...

7 The 100 Most Influential Inventors of All Time 7 Magdalenian cave painting of a bison, Altamira, Spain. A. Held/J.P. Ziolo, Pa ...

7 Cro-Magnon 7 Like the Neanderthals, the Cro-Magnon people buried their dead. The first examples of art by prehistoric peoples ...

7 The 100 Most Influential Inventors of All Time 7 medicine, Asclepius. He is considered to have been the architect of the step ...