Index
A
Abbott, Charles, 195
Absent-Minded Professor, The, 223
Active, 76
Advanced Research Projects
Agency (ARPA), 286 –290
Advanced Research Projects
Agency Network
(ARPANET), 275, 287–290
aeolipile, 24–25
Aerial Experiment
Association, 147
After Dolly: The Uses and Misuses
of Human Cloning, 297
airplane, 122, 170, 173–182, 198–200
Alice in Cartoonland, 220
alkaline storage battery, 138, 139
Allen, Paul, 310
alternating current system,
152, 153
Amelio, Gilbert, 302–303
American Philosophical
Society, 43
amplitude modulation (AM)
system, 169
Analytical Engine, 57, 85–87
Analytical Society, 83
André, Johann Anton, 70
Andrus, Leonard, 91, 92
Animal Breeding Research
Org anisation (ABRO),
291–292
animation, 218–224
Apgar, Virginia, 251–252
Apgar Score System, 251
Apple, Inc., 299 –307
Apple I, 299, 300
Apple II, 12, 300, 306 –307
Arago, François, 79
aramids, 273
Archimedes, 21–22
Archimedes’ principle, 21, 22
Archimedes’ screw, 14, 21
Ariel, the, 107
armature, 45
armonica, 47
Armstrong, Edwin H.,
204–207
Arrow Dynamics, 279 –280
Articles of Confederation, 46
artifi cial intelligence, 297–298
Asclepius, 19 –20
assembly line, 163, 167–168
“As We May Think,” 274
Atlas computer, 272
atomic bomb, 214, 230, 232,
240–244
Atomic Energy Commission, 242