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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