THE 100 MOST INFLUENTIAL INVENTORS OF ALL TIME

7 The 100 Most Influential Inventors of All Time 7

Fischetti, Mark, 310
FIX, 296
Ford, Clara (Bryant), 165
Ford, Henry, 12, 13, 139, 163–168
Ford Motor Company, 166 –168
Forty-two-Line Bible, 30, 31
fractal Darwinism, 283
Franklin, Benjamin, 11, 38–48
Franklin, Deborah (Read), 40,
41, 42–43
Franklin, Franky, 43
Franklin, James, 39, 40
Franklin, Sarah, 43
Franklin, William, 42–43
Franklin stove, 47
frequency modulation (FM)
system, 204, 206 –207
frozen food, 196 –197
Fuchs, Klaus, 242
Fuller, Margaret, 207
Fuller, R. Buckminster, 207–212
Fulton, Robert, 61– 65
Furnas, Charles, 179
Fust, Johann, 28–31

G

Galvani, Luigi, 55
game theory, 228, 229, 231, 232
Gamow, George, 241
gasoline-engine automobile,
124–127, 165–168
Gates, Bill, 310–313
Gates, Melinda, 312
Gatling, Richard J., 105–106
Gatling gun, 105–106
genetics, 232
Geodaesia, 24
geodesic dome, 207–208, 210

Geometrica, 24

G4, 303

Gilbert, Walter, 14, 264

glider, 149 –150, 173, 175, 176 –177

Goddard, Robert, 12, 192–196,

259 –260

Goodyear, Charles, 12, 89 – 91

Google, Inc., 314–317

Gould, Gordon, 262

Gould, Jay, 132

Graf Zeppelin, 118

gramophone, 150–151

graphical user interface,

274–275, 301

graphophone, 146

Gravettian industry, 18

groupware, 274–275

Guggenheim Fund for the

Pro motion of

Aeronautics, 195

Gum-Elastic and Its Varieties, 91

Gutenberg, Johannes, 11, 26 –31

gyroscopic lead-computing

gunsight, 216

gyroscopic navigation, 216 –217

H

Hammer, William J., 137

Hayes, Rutherford B., 10

Hayward, Nathaniel M., 90

Heisenberg, Werner, 228, 229

helicopter, 15, 151, 197, 198–201

heliography, 60

Helmaspergersches

Notariatsinstrument, 28

Heron of Alexandria, 23–26

Hertz, Heinrich Rudolf, 183, 187

heterodyne principle, 170, 204