How It Works - Book of Great Inventors & Their Creations.pdf

The How It Works Book of Great Inventors & Their Creations is a celebration of some of the people whose brilliant minds and perseverance have helped shape the modern world. They are by no means the only geniuses in history, nor are they the only great inventors. But the people whose biographies feature in this book are icons in the history of technology.


10 inventions that changed the world
Archimedes
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Johannes Gutenberg
Leonardo da Vinci
Hans Lipperhey
Cornelius Drebbel
Benjamin Franklin
James Watt
Nicéphore Niépce
Richard Trevithick
Michael Faraday
Charles Babbage
Joseph Lister
Alfred Nobe
Karl Benz
Thomas Edison
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