THE 100 MOST INFLUENTIAL INVENTORS OF ALL TIME

7 The 100 Most Influential Inventors of All Time 7

Campbell, Keith, 294–295, 297
carbon-button transmitter,
130, 133
carbon-14, 247–248
carbon dating, 246, 247–249
Carlson, Chester F., 233–234
carotid endarterectomy, 244
Carver, George Washington, 12,
156 –160
Carver, Moses, 157
Catoptrica, 24
cave art, 17, 19
celluloid, 113–115,
centrifugal governor, 51
Cerf, Vint, 286 –290
CERN, 309
Chanute, Octave, 149, 173, 176
charge, 45
Cheirobalistra, 24
Chibnall, Albert C., 266
Cinématographe, 11, 162–163
Circuli Magnitudine Inventa, De, 32
Clark University, 194
Clermont, 64, 65
clinical auscultation, 74
COBOL, 234
Cog, 298
Collinson, Peter, 45
Colt, Samuel, 103–105
computer bug, 236
computer memory, 270–272
computer mouse, 11, 274–275
condense, 45
conductor, 45
Congreve, Sir William, 70–71
Constitutional Convention, 38, 46
Cooper, James Fenimore, 81
Cooper, Leon, 256
Corbis, 312
Corkscrew, 279 –280

coronary artery bypass, 244

Corvisart des Marets, Jean-

Nicholas, 72

cotton gin, 10, 13, 66, 67– 68

Coulson, Alan, 269

Coventry, the, 107

Crawford, Francis Marion, 154

Crick, Francis, 268

Critical Path, 212

Cro-Magnon, 14, 17–19

curling iron, 120

cyclotron, 213–214

D

Dacron, 244

Daguerre, Louis-Jacques-Mandé,

60, 77–79

daguerreotype, 77, 78–79

Daimler, Gottlieb, 124–127

Daylight Saving Time, 47

DDT, 10, 212–213

DeBakey, Michael, 244–245

Declaration of Independence,

38, 46

“Deep Freeze Preservation of

Boar Semen,” 291

Deere, Charles, 92

Deere, John, 91– 92

Definitiones, 24

De Forest, Lee, 182–186, 205

Delag, 117

De l’ausculation médiate, 73

Delvigne, Henri-Gustave, 93

Demologos, 64– 65

deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA),

14, 15, 268–270, 292

Descartes, René, 31–32

Dickson, William K.L., 139

Diesel, Rudolf, 155–156