THE 100 MOST INFLUENTIAL INVENTORS OF ALL TIME

7 Wilbur and Orville Wright 7 having retarded the advance of flight technology by bringing suit against other talented experimen ...

7 The 100 Most Influential Inventors of All Time 7 considerable energy to defending the priority of the Wright brothers as the i ...

7 Lee De Forest 7 he was widely honoured as the “father of radio” and the “grandfather of television.” He was supported strongly ...

7 The 100 Most Influential Inventors of All Time 7 Forest’s doctoral dissertation on the “Reflection of Hertzian Waves from the ...

7 Lee De Forest 7 De Forest was indicted in 1912 but later acquitted of federal charges of using the mails to defraud by seeking ...

7 The 100 Most Influential Inventors of All Time 7 Guglielmo Marconi, c. 1908. Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. Other Inven ...

7 Guglielmo Marconi 7 shortwave wireless communication, which constitutes the basis of nearly all modern long-distance radio. Ed ...

7 The 100 Most Influential Inventors of All Time 7 the post office. Marconi filed his first patent in England in June 1896 and, ...

7 Guglielmo Marconi 7 between ships and land stations. In 1900 also, Marconi filed his now-famous patent No. 7777 for Improvemen ...

7 The 100 Most Influential Inventors of All Time 7 favourable at night than during the day. This circumstance is due to the fact ...

7 Guglielmo Marconi 7 transmitter of 1 kilowatt at Poldhu, Cornwall, signals were received at a distance of 1,400 miles (2,250 k ...

7 The 100 Most Influential Inventors of All Time 7 Robert Goddard (b. Oct. 5, 1882, Worcester, Mass., U.S.—d. Aug. 10, 1945, Bal ...

7 Robert Goddard 7 Robert Goddard, the father of modern rocketry, poses in this 1928 photo with one of his creations—a rocket se ...

7 The 100 Most Influential Inventors of All Time 7 vacuum tube in which cars were suspended and driven by the attraction and rep ...

7 Robert Goddard 7 by Means of Rockets,” which many years later was hailed by the Soviet Union as the forerunner of space flight ...

7 The 100 Most Influential Inventors of All Time 7 beyond Earth. His small rockets, early prototypes of the modern Moon thruster ...

7 Clarence Birdseye 7 involved placing food between two metal plates that were chilled by a calcium chloride solution to approxi ...

7 The 100 Most Influential Inventors of All Time 7 stimulated her son’s early interest in experimenting with model flying machin ...

7 Igor Sikorsky 7 and, although its 15-horsepower engine proved inadequate, a redesigned airframe with a larger engine (S-2) car ...

7 The 100 Most Influential Inventors of All Time 7 Corporation, occupied a large modern plant at Bridgeport, Conn., and was prod ...