THE 100 MOST INFLUENTIAL INVENTORS OF ALL TIME

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  • Introduction

  • Cro-Magnon

  • Imhotep

  • Archimedes

  • Cai Lun

  • Heron of Alexandria

  • Johannes Gutenberg

  • Christiaan Huygens

  • Antonie van Leeuwenhoek

  • Benjamin Franklin

  • James Watt

  • Joseph and Étienne Montgolfier

  • Alessandro Volta

  • Joseph-Marie Jacquard

  • John Loudon McAdam

  • Nicéphore Niépce

  • Robert Fulton

  • Eli Whitney

  • Alois Senefelder

  • Sir William Congreve

  • René Laënnec

  • George Stephenson

  • Louis Daguerre

  • Samuel F.B. Morse

  • Charles Babbage

  • Sir Rowland Hill

  • Charles Goodyear

  • John Deere

  • Claude-Étienne Minié

  • Louis Braille

  • Cyrus McCormick

  • Elisha Graves Otis

  • Sir Henry Bessemer

  • Samuel Colt

  • Richard J. Gatling











  • James Starley

  • Alfred Nobel

  • John Wesley Hyatt

  • Ferdinand von Zeppelin

  • Georges Leclanché

  • Hiram Maxim

  • John P. Holland

    • Daimler Karl Benz and Gottlieb



  • Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen

  • Thomas Edison

  • Alexander Graham Bell

  • Otto Lilienthal

  • Emil Berliner

  • Nikola Tesla

  • Rudolf Diesel

  • George Washington Carver

  • James A. Naismith

  • Auguste and Louis Lumière

  • Henry Ford

  • Reginald Fessenden

  • Wilbur and Orville Wright

  • Lee de Forest

  • Guglielmo Marconi

  • Robert Goddard

  • Clarence Birdseye

  • Igor Sikorsky

  • Vladimir Zworykin

  • Edwin H. Armstrong

  • R. Buckminster Fuller

  • Paul Müller

  • Ernest O. Lawrence

  • Charles Stark Draper

  • Walt Disney

  • William P. Lear

  • Felix Wankel

  • John von Neumann

  • Chester F. Carlson

  • Grace Murray Hopper

  • Frank Whittle

    • J. Presper Eckert John Mauchly and



  • Edward Teller

  • Michael DeBakey

  • Willard Libby

  • Edwin Herbert Land

  • Virginia Apgar

  • Leo Fender

    • and Walter Brattain William Shockley, John Bardeen,



  • Wernher von Braun

  • Charles Townes

  • Gertrude B. Elion

  • Frederick Sanger

  • Tom Kilburn

  • Stephanie Kwolek

  • Douglas Engelbart

  • Robert Noyce

  • Ron Toomer

    • Gerd Binnig Heinrich Rohrer and

    • Peter Mansfield Paul Lauterbur and



  • Robert Kahn and Vint Cerf

  • Ian Wilmut

  • Rodney Brooks

  • Steve Jobs and Stephen Wozniak

  • Tim Berners-Lee

  • Bill Gates

  • Linus Torvalds

  • Sergey Brin and Larry Page

  • Glossary

  • For Further Reading

  • Index











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