THE 100 MOST INFLUENTIAL INVENTORS OF ALL TIME

7 Samuel F.B. Morse 7 to go to England in order to study that art. During the War of 1812, between Great Britain and the United ...

7 The 100 Most Influential Inventors of All Time 7 increase U.S. respect for painters, and was its first president from 1826 to ...

7 Samuel F.B. Morse 7 Hudson River near Poughkeepsie, New York, where, early in the 1850s, he built an Italian villa-style mansi ...

7 The 100 Most Influential Inventors of All Time 7 he was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of London. He was instrumental i ...

7 Charles Babbage 7 The Difference Engine was more than a simple cal- culator, however. It mechanized not just a single calculat ...

7 The 100 Most Influential Inventors of All Time 7 government, Babbage began to imagine ways to improve it. Chiefly he thought a ...

7 Charles Babbage 7 of instruction cards would make it a programmable device and far more flexible than any machine then in exis ...

7 The 100 Most Influential Inventors of All Time 7 locomotive cowcatcher. It was Babbage who first sug- gested that the weather ...

7 Sir Rowland Hill 7 payments on delivery—was easily avoidable. Hill’s solution was a uniform rate of postage, regardless of dis ...

7 The 100 Most Influential Inventors of All Time 7 use of rubber. Though subsequent discoveries have refined Goodyear’s original ...

7 Charles Goodyear 7 victory did not come until 1852. That year he went to England, where articles made under his patents had be ...

7 The 100 Most Influential Inventors of All Time 7 output was about a thousand plows. Deciding that Grand Detour was not well si ...

7 Claude-Étienne Minié 7 yards (274 metres) balls from muzzle-loaders lost most of their lethality. These ballistic shortcomings ...

7 The 100 Most Influential Inventors of All Time 7 This new projectile could be loaded into dirty rifles with ease, and, because ...

Louis Braille’s language system enables blind people to read; they memorize the meaning of patterns of raised dots and interpret ...

7 The 100 Most Influential Inventors of All Time 7 written with a simple instrument, that met the needs of the sightless. He lat ...

7 Cyrus McCormick 7 States and England, had failed in his attempt to build a successful reaping machine. In 1831 Cyrus, aged 22, ...

7 The 100 Most Influential Inventors of All Time 7 mower. When McCormick’s basic patent expired in 1848, competing manufacturers ...

7 Cyrus McCormick 7 absorb all of his energy, however. He became active in the Democratic Party and in the Presbyterian Church, ...

7 The 100 Most Influential Inventors of All Time 7 hoist rope. The next year Otis resigned from his job and set up a small eleva ...