THE 100 MOST INFLUENTIAL INVENTORS OF ALL TIME

7 The 100 Most Influential Inventors of All Time 7

Keith, William, 40–41
Keller, Helen, 146
Kendrew, John, 268
Kennelly, A.E., 141
Kevlar, 272–274
Key, Francis Scott, 70–71
Khorana, Har Gobind, 269
Kilburn, Tom, 270–272
Kilby, Jack, 277–278
Kill Devil Hills, 175, 176, 177, 179
Kinescope, 203
Kinetograph, 139
Kinetoscope, 139, 162
Kruesi, John, 132, 133
Kwolek, Stephanie, 272–274

L

Laënnec, Jacquette (Guichard), 74
Laënnec, René, 71–74
Laënnec’s cirrhosis, 74
Lafayette, marquis de, 81, 83
Land, Edwin Herbert, 249 –250
Lartet, Édouard, 17
laser, 261–262
Laugh-O-grams, 220
Lauterbur, Paul, 283–285
Lawrence, Ernest O., 213–214
lawrencium, 214
Lear, William P., 224–226
Leclanché, Georges, 118–120
Leclanché cell, 118–120,
Leeuwenhoek, Antonie van, 35–38
Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm, 33, 34
Lemaître, Augustin-François, 60
Lenor, Étienne, 124
Les Eyzies-de-Tayac, 17, 19
Les Paul, 252
Libby, Willard, 246 –249

Liber Geëponicus, 24

Library Company of

Philadelphia, 43, 44

lightning rod, 47

light pen, 275

Lilienthal, Otto, 12, 148–150,

173, 175

Lindbergh, Charles, 195, 196

Linde, Carl von, 156

Linux, 313–314

lithography, 12, 69 –70

Livingston, Harriet, 64

Livingston, M. Stanley, 214

Livingston, Robert R., 62, 63

Lodge, Oliver, 187, 189

Louis XIV, 33

Lumière, Antoine, 162

Lumière, Auguste, 11, 162–163

Lumière, Louis, 11, 162-163

LZ-1, 117

LZ-4, 117

LZ-5, 117

M

macadam, 57–59

Macintosh, 301, 303

magnetic ore-separator,

138, 140

magnetic resonance imaging

(MRI), 283–286

mammalian cloning, 290–296

Manchester Mark I, 271

Manhattan Project, 214, 230, 238,

241–242, 247

Mansfield, Peter, 283–286

Marconi, Guglielmo, 13, 183,

186 –191, 204

Marcus, Siegfried, 124