@article{12751, note = {Foreword by Lester C. Thurow; Introductions by James Burke; A publication of the Lemelson-MIT Program for Invention and Innovation;.}, author = {Brown, David E., and Thurow, Lester C. and Burke, James, and Brown, David E.}, url = {http://tind.wipo.int/record/12751}, title = {Inventing modern America : from the microwave to the mouse /}, abstract = {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.}, recid = {12751}, pages = {xi, 209 pages :}, }