THE 100 MOST INFLUENTIAL INVENTORS OF ALL TIME

7 Thomas Edison 7 Edison’s role as a machine shop operator and small manufacturer was crucial to his success as an inventor. Unl ...

7 The 100 Most Influential Inventors of All Time 7 Alexander Graham Bell (b. March 3, 1847, Edinburgh, Scot.—d. Aug. 2, 1922, Be ...

7 Alexander Graham Bell 7 surviving son prompted the family’s move to Canada in August 1870, where, after settling near Brantfor ...

7 The 100 Most Influential Inventors of All Time 7 Alexander Graham Bell, who patented the telephone in 1876, inaugurating the 9 ...

7 Alexander Graham Bell 7 parents’ home in Canada to recuperate. In September 1875 he began to write the specifications for the ...

7 The 100 Most Influential Inventors of All Time 7 of Washington, D.C., Bell continued his experiments in communication, which c ...

7 Alexander Graham Bell 7 As interest in the possibility of flight increased after the turn of the century, he experimented with ...

7 The 100 Most Influential Inventors of All Time 7 German aviation pioneer Otto Lilienthal piloting one of his gliders, c. 1895. ...

7 Otto Lilienthal 7 Grundlage der Fliegekunst (“Bird Flight as the Basis of Aviation”) and in an important series of articles th ...

7 The 100 Most Influential Inventors of All Time 7 at hand. Lilienthal broke his back in a glider crash on Aug. 9, 1896, and die ...

and disc-replicating process. The machine itself would not be perfected until after 1896, the year that Eldridge Johnson began t ...

7 The 100 Most Influential Inventors of All Time 7 This photo of Nikola Tesla is from the fall of 1900, around the time he made ...

7 Nikola Tesla 7 the two inventors were far apart in background and methods, and their separation was inevitable. In May 1885, G ...

7 The 100 Most Influential Inventors of All Time 7 most important discovery—terrestrial stationary waves. By this discovery he p ...

7 Nikola Tesla 7 Tesla was a godsend to reporters who sought sensational copy but a problem to editors who were uncertain how se ...

7 The 100 Most Influential Inventors of All Time 7 Munich he established a brilliant scholastic record in fields of engineering. ...

7 George Washington Carver 7 revolutionize the agricultural economy of the South. For most of his career he taught and conducted ...

7 The 100 Most Influential Inventors of All Time 7 Carver left Iowa for Alabama in the fall of 1896 to direct the newly organize ...

7 George Washington Carver 7 ink, dyes, plastics, wood stains, soap, linoleum, medicinal oils, and cosmetics—and 118 from sweet ...

7 The 100 Most Influential Inventors of All Time 7 Many scientists thought of Carver more as a concoction- ist than as a contrib ...