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77 pages : 27 cm An illustrated introduction to sixty major inventors, from the unknown inventor of the wheel to today's developers of virtual reality Includes index Introduction -- Earliest inventions -- Archimedes: 287 B.C. -- 212 B.C. -- Hero of Alexandria: 1st century A.D. -- Medieval inventions -- Johann Gutenberg: c. 1397-1468 -- Leonardo da Vinci: 1452-1519 -- Gerardus Mercator: 1512-1594 -- Christiaan Huygens: 1629-1695 -- Galileo Galilei: 1564-1642 -- Blaise Pascal: 1623-1662 -- Isaac Newton: 1642-1727 -- Anton van Leeuwenhoek: 1632-1723 -- Thomas Newcomen: 1663-1729 -- Benjamin Franklin: 1706-1790 -- Richard Arkwright: 1732-1792 -- James Watt: 1736-1819 -- Joseph Montgolfier: 1740-1810 and Jacques Etienne Montgolfier: 1745-1799 -- Antoine Lavoisier: 1743-1794 -- Edward Jenner: 1749-1823 -- Alessandro Volta: 1745-1827 -- Baron von Drais von Sauerbronn: 1785-1851 -- Charles Babbage: 1792-1871 -- Charles Macintosh: 1766-1843 -- Joseph Nicephore Niepce: 1765-1833 -- George Stephenson: 1781-1848 -- Samuel Morse: 1791-1872 -- Samuel Colt: 1814-1862 -- Michael Faraday: 1791-1867
- Author
- Clements, Gillian
- Publisher
- London: Studio Editions
- Published
- 1993
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781858910178
- Subjects
- Technology, Stem
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