THE 100 MOST INFLUENTIAL INVENTORS OF ALL TIME

7 Steve Jobs and Stephen Wozniak 7 accept the position by challenging him: “Do you want to sell sugar water for the rest of your ...

7 The 100 Most Influential Inventors of All Time 7 1985 Sculley convinced Apple’s board of directors to remove the company’s fam ...

7 Steve Jobs and Stephen Wozniak 7 again. Jobs quickly forged an alliance with Apple’s erst- while foe, the Microsoft Corporatio ...

7 The 100 Most Influential Inventors of All Time 7 computers and other digital devices. Later the same year, Apple began selling ...

7 Steve Jobs and Stephen Wozniak 7 bile duct, and the intestine is reconnected to direct the gastrointestinal secretions back in ...

7 The 100 Most Influential Inventors of All Time 7 Colorado at Boulder for one year (1968– 69) before drop- ping out. Following ...

7 Steve Jobs and Stephen Wozniak 7 its market value exceeded $1 billion, at the time the fastest rise to that milestone in corpo ...

7 The 100 Most Influential Inventors of All Time 7 The computer scientist Tim Berners-Lee wrote the software for the fi rst web ...

7 Tim Berners-Lee 7 Computing came naturally to Berners-Lee, as both of his parents worked on the Ferranti Mark I, the first com ...

7 The 100 Most Influential Inventors of All Time 7 telephone directory—a mundane beginning for one of the technological wonders ...

7 Bill Gates 7 Allen, formed Microsoft. Gates’s sway over the infant microcomputer industry greatly increased when Microsoft lic ...

7 The 100 Most Influential Inventors of All Time 7 appetite for finding new ways to make computers and electronics more useful t ...

7 Bill Gates 7 It remains to be seen whether Gates’s extraordinary success will guarantee him a lasting place in the pantheon of ...

7 The 100 Most Influential Inventors of All Time 7 Because of their access to the source code, many pro- grammers helped Torvald ...

This photo shows Google founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page at the 2004 Frankfurt Book Fair, preparing to unveil their new Googl ...

7 The 100 Most Influential Inventors of All Time 7 to millions of ordinary computer users and had added a new verb, to google, t ...

7 Sergey Brin and Larry Page 7 In 2006 Google acquired YouTube, the Web’s most pop- ular site for user-submitted streaming video ...

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7 Glossary 7 of a lens to bring all the colors of light to focus at a single point. circumscribe In geometry, to draw a figure a ...

7 The 100 Most Influential Inventors of All Time 7 haberdasher A retailer of small wares, particularly men’s accessories. hydrod ...