Archimedes -- Al-Jazari -- Johannes Gutenberg -- Leonardo da Vinci -- Hans Lipperhey -- Cornelius Drebbel -- Benjamin Franklin -- James Watt -- Nicéphore Niepce -- Richard Trevithick -- Michael Faraday -- Charles Babbage -- Joseph Lister -- Karl Benz -- Alexander Graham Bell -- George Eastman -- Nikola Tesla -- Auguste and Louis Lumière -- Wilbur and Orville Wright -- Guglielmo Marconi -- Carl Bosch -- Vladimir Zworykin -- Juan de la Cierva -- Wernher von Braun -- Alan Turing -- Gertrude Elion -- Tim Berners-Lee.
Summary:
This book gives readers unprecedented insight into the minds and lives of some of the great men and women who have helped shape the modern world through technology.
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.