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Author(s): David E. Brown
ISBN(s): 9780262523493, 0262523493
Edition: 1st
File Details: PDF, 30.64 MB
Year: 2001
Language: english
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ISBN 10: 0262523493

ISBN 13: 9780262523493 

Author: David E. Brown

Tells the personal stories of thirty-five American scientists, technologists, and researchers whose inventions have had a significant impact on life in the twentieth century in the areas of medicine and healthcare, consumer products, transportation, energy and the environment, and computing and telecommunications

Table of contents:

Medicine and Healthcare

  • Raymond Damadian: MRI scanner, magnetic resonance imaging

  • Thomas Fogarty: balloon embolectomy catheter

  • Wilson Greatbatch: implantable cardiac pacemaker

  • Dean Kamen: portable medication technology

  • Mary-Claire King: advances in the treatment of breast cancer

  • Robert Langer: biomedical applications of polymers

  • Rosalyn Yalow: RIA, radioimmunoassay

Consumer Products

  • Leo Baekeland: Bakelite, the first modern plastic

  • Harold “Doc” Edgerton: stop-action photography

  • Philo T. Farnsworth: electronic television

  • Stephanie Kwolek: Kevlar

  • Jerome Lemelson: apparatus for driving tape in a cartridge

  • Jacob Rabinow: self-regulating clock

  • Percy Spencer: microwave oven

Transportation

  • Ole Evinrude: outboard boat motor

  • Henry Ford: assembly line

  • Robert Goddard: liquid-fueled rocket

  • Paul MacCready: human-powered airplane

  • Garrett Morgan: traffic signal

  • Elmer Ambrose Sperry: gyrocompass

Energy and Environment

  • George Washington Carver: industrial applications for agricultural products

  • Carl Djerassi: nontoxic pest-control products

  • Sally Fox: naturally colored cotton

  • Buckminster Fuller: geodesic dome

  • Ashok Gadgil: ultraviolet water purification system

  • Stanford Ovshinsky: mass production of photovoltaic cells

  • John Todd: ecosystems for combating pollution

Computing and Telecommunications

  • Nolan Bushnell: video game

  • Douglas Engelbart: computer mouse

  • Al Gross: walkie-talkie

  • Erna Schneider Hoover: computerized telephone switching system

  • Grace Murray Hopper: computer compiler

  • Raymond Kurzweil: optical reading machine for the blind

  • Carver Mead: very-large-scale integrated circuits

  • Steve Wozniak: personal computer

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