THE 100 MOST INFLUENTIAL INVENTORS OF ALL TIME

7 Sir Henry Bessemer 7 decoration of the time demanded great quantities of such material, and Bessemer’s secret process soon bro ...

7 The 100 Most Influential Inventors of All Time 7 skin of pure iron. Bessemer then found that blowing air through melted cast i ...

7 Sir Henry Bessemer 7 and vast profits flowed in. It became clear that “mild steel”—as it was known to distinguish it from the ...

7 The 100 Most Influential Inventors of All Time 7 the principle of the revolving chamber was not used successfully to produce a ...

7 Samuel Colt 7 the production line, and he also applied progressive ideas concerning employee welfare. Colt dominated the manu- ...

7 The 100 Most Influential Inventors of All Time 7 with his name. After early experiments with a single barrel using paper cartr ...

7 James Starley 7 There he invented and patented new models, and many of his features are used in modern sewing machines. In 186 ...

7 The 100 Most Influential Inventors of All Time 7 The noted scientist Alfred Nobel, pictured here at around age 30, was a Swedi ...

7 Alfred Nobel 7 Ahlsell in 1827. The couple had eight children, of whom only Alfred and three brothers reached adulthood. Alfre ...

7 The 100 Most Influential Inventors of All Time 7 undertook research in the hope of finding a safe way to control the explosive ...

7 Alfred Nobel 7 formed a web of corporations to produce and market his explosives. He also continued to experiment in search of ...

7 The 100 Most Influential Inventors of All Time 7 He never married, and apparently preferred the joys of inventing to those of ...

7 Alfred Nobel 7 marchand de la mort est mort” (“The merchant of death is dead.”) Perhaps Alfred Nobel established the prizes to ...

7 The 100 Most Influential Inventors of All Time 7 from Asian camphor trees), and alcohol and then pressing the mixture in a hea ...

7 John Wesley Hyatt 7 years a number of competing plastics were introduced under such fanciful names as Coralline, Ivoride, and ...

7 The 100 Most Influential Inventors of All Time 7 The airship Schwaben landing at Potsdam, Ger., September 1911. Encyclopædia B ...

7 Ferdinand von Zeppelin 7 and, in Germany after 1888, gasoline engines were used. The problem remained how to maintain the shap ...

7 The 100 Most Influential Inventors of All Time 7 distant aerial warfare, which included the bombing of London and a flight fro ...

Georges Leclanché’s cell. Invented in 1866, this dry cell and its later variations, the zinc chloride and alkaline cells, are ba ...

7 The 100 Most Influential Inventors of All Time 7 sheet or “can,” the alloy containing small amounts of lead, cadmium, and merc ...