THE 100 MOST INFLUENTIAL INVENTORS OF ALL TIME

7 Archimedes 7 Archimedes (b. c. 290–280 BCE, Syracuse, Sicily [now in Italy]—d. 212/211 BCE, Syracuse) T he most famous mathema ...

7 The 100 Most Influential Inventors of All Time 7 representing the motions of the Sun, the Moon, and the planets. The story tha ...

7 Cai Lun 7 Cai Lun was a eunuch who entered the service of the imperial palace in 75 CE and was made chief eunuch under the emp ...

7 The 100 Most Influential Inventors of All Time 7 triangle, and s is one-half the triangle’s perimeter. Book I also contains an ...

Heron of Alexandria fashioned the fi rst known “steam engine,” though he only used it to power toys and amuse visitors. Encyclop ...

7 The 100 Most Influential Inventors of All Time 7 by Pappus of Alexandria (fl. 300 CE), as is also the Baroulcus (“Methods of L ...

7 Johannes Gutenberg 7 Life Gutenberg was the son of a patrician of Mainz. What little information exists about him, other than ...

7 The 100 Most Influential Inventors of All Time 7 along the way to completing his invention, was anxious to keep secret the nat ...

This engraving shows a printing press in 1498 and is from a book printed in that year. The Bridgeman Art Library/Getty Images 7 ...

7 The 100 Most Influential Inventors of All Time 7 record of the trial, refers to the Forty-two-Line Bible that was Gutenberg’s ...

7 Johannes Gutenberg 7 decorations would certainly have increased Johann Fust’s impatience and vindictiveness. A number of other ...

7 The 100 Most Influential Inventors of All Time 7 early age, Huygens showed a marked mechanical bent and a talent for drawing a ...

7 Christiaan Huygens 7 apartment in its building. Apart from occasional visits to Holland, he lived from 1666 to 1681 in Paris, ...

7 The 100 Most Influential Inventors of All Time 7 revocation (1685) of the Edict of Nantes, which had granted certain liberties ...

7 Christiaan Huygens 7 the most brilliant and original contributions to modern science and will always be remembered by the prin ...

7 The 100 Most Influential Inventors of All Time 7 and protozoa, his “very little animalcules,” which he was able to isolate fro ...

7 Antonie van Leeuwenhoek 7 described its structure but traced out the whole history of its metamorphosis, is of great interest, ...

7 The 100 Most Influential Inventors of All Time 7 Royal Society, were found to have magnifying powers of between 50 and, at the ...

7 Benjamin Franklin 7 artisan crafts. In an age that privileged the firstborn son, Franklin was, as he tartly noted in his Autob ...

7 The 100 Most Influential Inventors of All Time 7 young to assume the persona of a middle-aged woman was a remarkable feat, and ...