THE 100 MOST INFLUENTIAL INVENTORS OF ALL TIME

7 James A. Naismith 7 School, afterward Springfield (Mass.) College, invented the game of basketball. As a young man, Naismith ( ...

7 The 100 Most Influential Inventors of All Time 7 credited with inventing the protective helmet for football players. The Naism ...

brought wide public acclaim and the beginning of cinema history. The Lumière apparatus consisted of a single camera used for bot ...

7 The 100 Most Influential Inventors of All Time 7 The 1909 Model T. Courtesy of the Ford Motor Company automobile had played in ...

7 Henry Ford 7 Confederacy. Ford attended a one-room school for eight years when he was not helping his father with the harvest. ...

7 The 100 Most Influential Inventors of All Time 7 During the next seven years he had various backers, some of whom, in 1899, fo ...

7 Henry Ford 7 he appealed and won in 1911. His victory had wide implications for the industry, and the fight made Ford a popula ...

7 The 100 Most Influential Inventors of All Time 7 chassis was turned out every 93 minutes, an enormous improvement over the 728 ...

7 Reginald Fessenden 7 After study at Trinity College School, in Port Hope, Ont., and Bishop’s College in Lennoxville, Que., Fes ...

7 The 100 Most Influential Inventors of All Time 7 two-way transatlantic wireless telegraphic communication between Brant Rock a ...

7 Wilbur and Orville Wright 7 duties as the editor of a church newspaper. In that city a pair of twins, Otis and Ida, were born ...

7 The 100 Most Influential Inventors of All Time 7 the same time, the bishop’s rigid adherence to principle and disinclination t ...

7 Wilbur and Orville Wright 7 precision machines of wood, wire, and metal tubing was ideal preparation for the construction of f ...

7 The 100 Most Influential Inventors of All Time 7 This 1902 photo depicts Wilbur Wright fl ying the glider biplane he designed ...

7 Wilbur and Orville Wright 7 Their first experiments with “wing warping,” as the system would be called, were made with a small ...

7 The 100 Most Influential Inventors of All Time 7 Discouraged, but determined to preserve a record of their aeronautical work t ...

7 Wilbur and Orville Wright 7 shared the flying duties, completing 700–1,000 flights, covering distances up to 622.5 feet (189.7 ...

7 The 100 Most Influential Inventors of All Time 7 a heavier-than-air machine had demonstrated powered and sustained flight unde ...

7 Wilbur and Orville Wright 7 With the new aircraft that they would fly in America and France ready for assembly, the Wright bro ...

7 The 100 Most Influential Inventors of All Time 7 established a factory in Dayton and a flying field and flight school at Huffm ...