THE 100 MOST INFLUENTIAL INVENTORS OF ALL TIME

7 The 100 Most Influential Inventors of All Time 7

Runaway Mine Ride, 279
Ruska, Ernst, 281

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safety elevator, 99–100
Sanger, Frederick, 14, 264–270
Sarnoff, David, 202, 203
Saturn, rings of, 31, 32
Saturn space boosters, 261
scanning tunneling microscope,
280 –283
Schawlow, Arthur, 262
Schöffer, Peter, 30
Schrieffer, John, 256
Schrödinger, Erwin, 228
Scott, Léon, 134
Sculley, John, 300–301, 302
secondary-emission
multiplier, 203
Second Creation: Dolly and the
Age of Biological Control,
The, 297
Sekhmet, 20
Selden, George Baldwin, 166
Select Works of A. van
Leeuwenhoek, The, 38
Sematech, 278–279
Senefelder, Alois, 12, 69–70
Shannon, Claude, 228
Shockley, William, 253–257,
276 –277
shortwave wireless
communication, 187
Sikorsky, Igor, 12, 197–201
Single Action Army Model 1873
revolver, 105
Skeleton Dance, 221
sniperscope, 203
snooperscope, 203

Snow White and the Seven

Dwarfs, 222

somatic cell nuclear transfer

(SCNT), 295

“Some Aeronautical

Experiments,” 176

sonic depth finder, 170

Sortie des ouvriers de l’usine

Lumière, La, 162

Soundex, 208

space launcher, 260–262

Spectator, The, 39

Spemann, Hans, 292

Stalin, Joseph, 159

stamps, 89

Standard English Braille,

grade 2, 96

Starley, James, 106–108

Starley, John Kemp, 108

steamboat, 61–65, 136

Steamboat Willie, 221

steam engine, 48, 49–52, 116, 122

steel plow, 91– 92

steel roller coaster, 279–280

Stephenson, George, 75– 77

Stephenson, Robert, 75– 76

Stereometrica, 24

stethoscope, 71, 73–74

Stevens, John H., 115,

stone tools, 14, 17–18

store, 86

stored-program digital

computer, 228, 231

Story of the Winged-S, 201

Stratocaster, 252

stroboscopic photography, 149

submarine, 62, 63, 123–124, 139, 170

superheterodyne principle, 170,

204, 206