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BL
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1030413
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b784783
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| Title & Author
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The 100 most influential inventors of all time /\ edited by Robert Curley.
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| Edition Statement
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1st ed.
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| Publication Statement
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New York, NY :: Britannica Educational Pub. in association with Rosen Educational Services,, ©2010.
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| Series Statement
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The Britannica guide to the world's most influential people
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| Page. NO
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336 pages :: illustrations ;; 24 cm.
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| ISBN
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1615300031
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: 9781615300037
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 322-323) and index.
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| Contents
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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 -- Karl Benz and Gottlieb Daimler -- Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen -- Thomas Edison -- Alexander Graham Bell -- Otto Lilienthal -- Emil Berliner -- Nikola Tesla -- Rudlof Kiesel -- George Washington Carver -- James A. Naismith -- Auguste and Louis Lumiére -- 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 -- John Mauchly and J. Presper Eckert -- Edward Teller -- Michael DeBakey -- Willard Libby -- Edwin Herbert Land -- Virginia Apgar -- Leo Fender -- William Shockley, John Bardeen, and Walter Brattain -- Wernher von Braun -- Charles Townes -- Gertrude B. Elion -- Frederick Sanger -- Tom Kilburn -- Stephanie Kwolek -- Douglas Engelbart -- Robert Noyce -- Ron Toomer -- Heinrich Rohrer and Gerd Binnig -- Paul Lauterbur and Peter Mansfield -- 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.
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| Abstract
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Chronologically arranged entries profile one hundred of the world's most influential inventors from ancient times through the twentieth century.
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Inventions-- History, Popular works.
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Inventors, Biography, Popular works.
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Inventors, Biography, Popular works.
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Inventions-- History.
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Inventions.
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Inventors, Biography.
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Inventors.
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| Dewey Classification
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609.2/2
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| LC Classification
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T39.A14 2010
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| Added Entry
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Curley, Robert,1955-
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Britannica Educational Publishing.
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| Parallel Title
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Hundred most influential inventors of all time
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: One hundred most influential inventors of all time
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