THE 100 MOST INFLUENTIAL INVENTORS OF ALL TIME

7 Robert Fulton 7 Robert Fulton (b. Nov. 14, 1765, Lancaster county, Pa. [now in U.S.]—d. Feb. 24, 1815, New York, N.Y.) R obert ...

7 The 100 Most Influential Inventors of All Time 7 Beginning in 1794, however, having admitted defeat as a painter, Fulton turne ...

7 Robert Fulton 7 Returning to London in 1804, Fulton advanced his ideas with the British government for submersible and low-lyi ...

7 The 100 Most Influential Inventors of All Time 7 light freight. Problems, however, remained: the mechanical difficulties, for ...

7 Robert Fulton 7 miles, or 11 km, per hour). Launched in October 1814, the heavily gunned and armoured steamship underwent suc- ...

7 The 100 Most Influential Inventors of All Time 7 Eli Whitney’s cotton gin, shown here, revolutionized the cotton industry by m ...

7 Eli Whitney 7 experiments in science and the applied arts, as technology was then called. After graduation in the fall of 1792 ...

7 The 100 Most Influential Inventors of All Time 7 their mounting wealth apparently induced a sense of guilt at denying the inve ...

7 Eli Whitney 7 similar to an engraving on copper plate from which may be taken a great number of impressions perceptibly alike. ...

7 The 100 Most Influential Inventors of All Time 7 on copper plates was not proving very successful when an accident led to his ...

7 Sir William Congreve 7 Scott Key to write in the “Star Spangled Banner” (now the U.S. national anthem): “... the rockets’ red ...

7 The 100 Most Influential Inventors of All Time 7 western France. Laënnec’s uncle was the dean of medicine at the University of ...

7 René Laënnec 7 Napoleon’s empire fell. While Laënnec’s embrace of Catholic doctrine was viewed favourably by royalists, many i ...

7 The 100 Most Influential Inventors of All Time 7 Europe came to Paris to learn about Laënnec’s diagnostic tool. He became an i ...

7 George Stephenson 7 George Stephenson (b. June 9, 1781, Wylam, Northumberland, Eng.—d. Aug. 12, 1848, Chesterfield, Derbyshire ...

7 The 100 Most Influential Inventors of All Time 7 satisfied, he sought to improve his locomotive’s power and introduced the “st ...

7 George Stephenson 7 Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre, litho graph. Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. of roadway construction, ...

7 The 100 Most Influential Inventors of All Time 7 was destroyed by fire in 1839. The partners painted the scenes on translucent ...

7 Louis Daguerre 7 affirming Daguerre as the inventor of a new process, “the daguerreotype.” On Jan. 9, 1839, a full description ...

7 The 100 Most Influential Inventors of All Time 7 This print shows the machines used for sending and receiving coded telegraph ...