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Biographical dictionary of the history of technology / edited by Lance Day and Ian McNeil.

Contributor(s): Series: Routledge reference | Routledge referencePublication details: London ; New York : Routledge, 1998.Description: xiii, 844 pages ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0415193990
  • 9780415193993
  • 0415060427
  • 9780415060424
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 609.22
  • 926 B615
LOC classification:
  • TA139 .B55x 1998
Other classification:
  • ZG 7800
Contents:
This book includes short biographies of people who made important contributions in the following areas: Aerospace, Agricultural and food technology -- Architecture and building -- Automotive engineering -- Broadcasting -- Canals -- Chemical technology -- Civil engineering -- Domestic appliances and interiors -- Electricity -- Electronics and information technology -- Horology -- Land transport -- Mechanical, pneumatic and hydraulic engineering -- Medical technology -- Metallurgy -- Mining and extraction technology -- Paper and printing -- Photography, film and optics -- Ports and shipping -- Public utilities -- Railways and locomotives -- Recording -- Steam and internal combustion engines -- Synthetic materials -- Telecommunications -- Textiles -- Weapons and armour.
Automotive engineering: Ackermann, Ralph -- Austin, Herbert -- Benz, Karl -- Boll ee, Ernest-Sylvain -- Bosch, Robert August -- Bouton, Georges Thad e -- Bowser, Sylvanus F. -- Butler, Edward -- Clerk, Sir Dugald -- Daimler, Gottlieb -- Duryea, Charles Edgar -- Edison, Thomas Alva -- Ford, Henry -- Gurney, Sir Goldsworthy -- Haynes, Elwood -- Issigonis, Sir Alexander Arnold Constantine -- Johansson, Carl Edvard -- Kettering, Charles Franklin -- Knight, Margaret E. -- Lanchester, Frederick William -- Langen, Eugen -- Marcus, Siegfried -- Maybach, Wilhelm -- Morris, William Richard -- Moulton, Alexander -- Olds, Ransom Eli -- Otto, Nikolaus August -- Porsche, Ferdinand -- Railton, Reid Anthony -- Rolls, The Hon. Charles Stewart -- Royce, Sir Frederick Henry -- Salomans, Sir David Lionel -- Shaw, Percy -- Simms, Frederick -- Wankel, Felix -- Wolseley, Frederick York.
Electronics and information technology: Alexanderson, Ernst Frederik Werner -- Armstrong, Edwin Howard -- Babbage, Charles -- Baird, John Logic -- Bardeen, John -- Baudot, Jean-Maurice-Emile -- Berezin, Evelyn -- Black, Harold Stephen -- Blumlein, Alan Dower -- Bode, Hendrik Wade -- Boole, George -- Boot, Henry Albert Howard -- Branly, Edouard Eug ene -- Brattain, Walter Houser -- Braun, Karl Ferdinand -- Briggs, Henry -- Burks, Arthur Walter -- Byron, Ada Augusta -- Cady, Walter Guyton -- Campbell-Swinton, Alan Archibald -- Colpitts, Edwin Henry -- De Forest, Lee -- Dolby, Ray M. -- Dunwoody, General Henry H.C. -- Eccles, William Henry -- Edison, Thomas Alva -- Eisler, Paul -- Farnsworth, Philo Taylor -- Fessenden, Reginald Aubrey -- Fischer, E. -- Flechsig, W. -- Forrester, Jay Wright -- Goldmark, , Peter Carl -- Goldstine, Herman H. -- Grant, George Barnard -- Haddy, Arthur Charles -- Hartley, Ralph V.L. -- Hertz, Heinrich Rudolph -- Hetzel, Max -- Hipp, Matth aus -- Hopkinson, John -- Ives, Herbert Eugene -- Jansky, Karl Guthe -- Jenkins, Charles Francis -- Jobs, Steven Paul -- Kao, Charles Kuen -- Keller, Arthur -- Kemeny, John G. -- Kennelly, Arthur Edwin -- Kettering, Charles Franklin -- Kilby, Jack St Clair -- Kompfher, Rudolf -- Kurtz, Thomas E. -- Langmuir, Irving -- Lodge, , Sir Oliver Joseph -- Lovelock, James Ephraim -- Maiman, Theodore Harold -- Marconi, Marchese Guglielmo -- Marrison, Warren Alvin -- Napier, John -- Nipkow, Paul Gottlieb -- Noyce, Robert -- Nyquist, Harry -- Osborne, Adam -- Pascal, Blaise -- Paul, Robert William -- Pierce, George Washington -- Pierce, John Robinson -- Poniatoff, Alexander Mathew -- Popov, Aleksandr Stepanovich -- Poulsen, Valdemar -- Preece, Sir William -- Riche, Gaspard-Clair-Fran cois-Marie -- Rosing, Boris -- Sarnoff, David -- Schawlow, Arthur Leonard -- Scheutz, George -- Schickhard(t), Wilhelm -- Shannon, Claude Elwood -- Shockley, William Bradford -- Shoenberg, Isaac -- Sinclair, Sir Clive Marles -- Smith, Oberlin -- Stibitz, George R. -- Strachey, Christopher -- Taylor, Albert Hoyt -- Townes, Charles Hard -- Varian, Russell Harrison -- Varian, Sigurd Fergus -- Voigt, Paul Gustavus Adolphus Helmuth -- Watson-Watt, Sir Robert Alexander -- Wilkes, Murice Vincent -- Williams, Sir Frederic Calland -- Williamson, David Theodore Nelson -- Wirth, Niklaus -- Wozniak, Stephen G. -- Yagi, Hidetsugu -- Zuse, Konrad -- Zworykin, Vladimir Kosma.
Summary: From ancient times to the present day, the major inventors, discoverers and entrepreneurs from around the world are profiled, and their contribution to society is explained and assessed.
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Originally published: London ; New York : Routledge, 1996.

This book includes short biographies of people who made important contributions in the following areas: Aerospace, Agricultural and food technology -- Architecture and building -- Automotive engineering -- Broadcasting -- Canals -- Chemical technology -- Civil engineering -- Domestic appliances and interiors -- Electricity -- Electronics and information technology -- Horology -- Land transport -- Mechanical, pneumatic and hydraulic engineering -- Medical technology -- Metallurgy -- Mining and extraction technology -- Paper and printing -- Photography, film and optics -- Ports and shipping -- Public utilities -- Railways and locomotives -- Recording -- Steam and internal combustion engines -- Synthetic materials -- Telecommunications -- Textiles -- Weapons and armour.

Automotive engineering: Ackermann, Ralph -- Austin, Herbert -- Benz, Karl -- Boll ee, Ernest-Sylvain -- Bosch, Robert August -- Bouton, Georges Thad e -- Bowser, Sylvanus F. -- Butler, Edward -- Clerk, Sir Dugald -- Daimler, Gottlieb -- Duryea, Charles Edgar -- Edison, Thomas Alva -- Ford, Henry -- Gurney, Sir Goldsworthy -- Haynes, Elwood -- Issigonis, Sir Alexander Arnold Constantine -- Johansson, Carl Edvard -- Kettering, Charles Franklin -- Knight, Margaret E. -- Lanchester, Frederick William -- Langen, Eugen -- Marcus, Siegfried -- Maybach, Wilhelm -- Morris, William Richard -- Moulton, Alexander -- Olds, Ransom Eli -- Otto, Nikolaus August -- Porsche, Ferdinand -- Railton, Reid Anthony -- Rolls, The Hon. Charles Stewart -- Royce, Sir Frederick Henry -- Salomans, Sir David Lionel -- Shaw, Percy -- Simms, Frederick -- Wankel, Felix -- Wolseley, Frederick York.

Electronics and information technology: Alexanderson, Ernst Frederik Werner -- Armstrong, Edwin Howard -- Babbage, Charles -- Baird, John Logic -- Bardeen, John -- Baudot, Jean-Maurice-Emile -- Berezin, Evelyn -- Black, Harold Stephen -- Blumlein, Alan Dower -- Bode, Hendrik Wade -- Boole, George -- Boot, Henry Albert Howard -- Branly, Edouard Eug ene -- Brattain, Walter Houser -- Braun, Karl Ferdinand -- Briggs, Henry -- Burks, Arthur Walter -- Byron, Ada Augusta -- Cady, Walter Guyton -- Campbell-Swinton, Alan Archibald -- Colpitts, Edwin Henry -- De Forest, Lee -- Dolby, Ray M. -- Dunwoody, General Henry H.C. -- Eccles, William Henry -- Edison, Thomas Alva -- Eisler, Paul -- Farnsworth, Philo Taylor -- Fessenden, Reginald Aubrey -- Fischer, E. -- Flechsig, W. -- Forrester, Jay Wright -- Goldmark, , Peter Carl -- Goldstine, Herman H. -- Grant, George Barnard -- Haddy, Arthur Charles -- Hartley, Ralph V.L. -- Hertz, Heinrich Rudolph -- Hetzel, Max -- Hipp, Matth aus -- Hopkinson, John -- Ives, Herbert Eugene -- Jansky, Karl Guthe -- Jenkins, Charles Francis -- Jobs, Steven Paul -- Kao, Charles Kuen -- Keller, Arthur -- Kemeny, John G. -- Kennelly, Arthur Edwin -- Kettering, Charles Franklin -- Kilby, Jack St Clair -- Kompfher, Rudolf -- Kurtz, Thomas E. -- Langmuir, Irving -- Lodge, , Sir Oliver Joseph -- Lovelock, James Ephraim -- Maiman, Theodore Harold -- Marconi, Marchese Guglielmo -- Marrison, Warren Alvin -- Napier, John -- Nipkow, Paul Gottlieb -- Noyce, Robert -- Nyquist, Harry -- Osborne, Adam -- Pascal, Blaise -- Paul, Robert William -- Pierce, George Washington -- Pierce, John Robinson -- Poniatoff, Alexander Mathew -- Popov, Aleksandr Stepanovich -- Poulsen, Valdemar -- Preece, Sir William -- Riche, Gaspard-Clair-Fran cois-Marie -- Rosing, Boris -- Sarnoff, David -- Schawlow, Arthur Leonard -- Scheutz, George -- Schickhard(t), Wilhelm -- Shannon, Claude Elwood -- Shockley, William Bradford -- Shoenberg, Isaac -- Sinclair, Sir Clive Marles -- Smith, Oberlin -- Stibitz, George R. -- Strachey, Christopher -- Taylor, Albert Hoyt -- Townes, Charles Hard -- Varian, Russell Harrison -- Varian, Sigurd Fergus -- Voigt, Paul Gustavus Adolphus Helmuth -- Watson-Watt, Sir Robert Alexander -- Wilkes, Murice Vincent -- Williams, Sir Frederic Calland -- Williamson, David Theodore Nelson -- Wirth, Niklaus -- Wozniak, Stephen G. -- Yagi, Hidetsugu -- Zuse, Konrad -- Zworykin, Vladimir Kosma.

From ancient times to the present day, the major inventors, discoverers and entrepreneurs from around the world are profiled, and their contribution to society is explained and assessed.

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