THE 100 MOST INFLUENTIAL INVENTORS OF ALL TIME

7 Index 7

Audion vacuum tube, 182,
184–186, 205
Aus dem Nichts, 283
Autobiography, An, 103
Autobiography of Benjamin
Franklin, 39, 40, 47
automatic digital computer, 83,
84– 88
automatic pilot, 225
Automatopoietica, 24
automobile radio, 224, 225
azidothymidine (AZT), 264

B

Babbage, Charles, 14, 57, 83–88
backing links, 316
bacteriology, 35– 38
Bambi, 222
Barbier, Charles, 95
Bardeen, John, 253–257
Baroulcus, 26
Barrell, Bart G., 268–269
basketball, 161–162
Basov, Nikolay, 261, 262
Batchelor, Charles, 132–133
Bayle, Gaspard Laurent, 72
BCS theory of superconductivity,
256 –257
Beck, Joan, 252
Bell, Alexander Graham, 9, 10,
133, 138, 142–147, 150
Bell, Alexander Melville, 142–143
Bell, Chichester, 146
Bell, Mabel (Hubbard), 143,
145, 147
Belopoeica, 24, 25, 26
Benz, Karl, 124–127
Berg, Paul, 14, 264
Berliner, Emil, 150–151
Berliner, Henry, 151

Berners-Lee, Tim, 308–310

Bessemer, Sir Henry, 100–103

Bessemer converter, 100, 101–103

Bichat, Marie-François-Xavier, 72

bicycle, 106 –108, 127, 172–173

bifocal glasses, 11, 47

Bill and Melinda Gates

Foundation, 312

BINAC, 239 –240,

Binnig, Gerd, 280–283

Birdseye, Clarence, 196 –197

Black, James W., 263

Black, Joseph, 49

blasting cap, 110

Blenkinsop, John, 75

Blucher, 75

Bofors arms factory, 111

Bohr, Niels, 229, 241

Borel, Émile, 229

bottom-up approach in artificial

intelligence, 298

Boulton, Matthew, 49 –50

Bouton, Charles-Marie, 77–78

Braille, 94– 96

Braille, Louis, 94– 96

Brattain, Walter, 253–257

Braun, Ferdinand, 186

Braun, Wernher von, 257–261

Brin, Sergey, 315–317

Brooks, Rodney, 297–298

Brownlee, George G., 268–269

Buffett, Warren, 312

Bush, Vannevar, 274

C

Cai Lun, 14, 22–23

Cambrian Intelligence: The Early

History of the New AI, 298

camera lucida, 78

camera obscura, 78