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Inventing modern America : from the microwave to the mouse / text by David E. Brown ; foreword by Lester C. Thurow ; introductions by James Burke.
2002
G 111 BRO.I
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تفاصيل
Title
Inventing modern America : from the microwave to the mouse / text by David E. Brown ; foreword by Lester C. Thurow ; introductions by James Burke.
الوصف
xi, 209 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm.
الرقم الدولي المعياري للكتاب
0262025086
9780262025089 hc.
0262523493 pb
9780262523493 pb
0585481016
9780585481012
9780262025089 hc.
0262523493 pb
9780262523493 pb
0585481016
9780585481012
Alternate Call Number
G 111 BRO.I
ملخص
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.
ملاحظة
Foreword by Lester C. Thurow; Introductions by James Burke; A publication of the Lemelson-MIT Program for Invention and Innovation;.
"A publication of the Lemelson-MIT program for invention and innovation.".
A portada: A publication of the Lemelson-MIT program for Invention and Innovation.
"A publication of the Lemelson-MIT program for invention and innovation.".
A portada: A publication of the Lemelson-MIT program for Invention and Innovation.
ملاحظة الفهرس, إلخ
Includes bibliographical references (pages 198-200) and index.
ملاحظة المحتويات المنسقة
Medicine and healthcare. Raymond Damadian : MRI scanner, magnetic resonance imaging (1977)
Thomas Fogarty : balloon embolectomy catheter (1961)
Wilson Greatbatch : implantable cardiac pacemaker (1958)
Dean Kamen : portable medication technology (1970s)
Mary-Claire King : advances in the treatment of breast cancer (1990)
Robert Langer : biomedical applications of polymers (1980s)
Rosalyn Yalow : RIA, radioimmunoassay (1959)
Consumer products. Leo Baekeland : Bakelite, the first modern plastic (1907)
Harold "Doc" Edgerton : stop-action photography (1931)
Philo T. Farnsworth : electronic television (1927)
Stephanie Kwolek : Kevlar (1964)
Jerome Lemelson : apparatus for driving tape in a cartridge (1972)
Jacob Rabinow : self-regulating clock (1954)
Percy Spencer : microwave oven (1947)
Transportation. Ole Evinrude : outboard boat motor (1907)
Henry Ford : assembly line (1913)
Robert Goddard : liquid-fueled rocket (1926)
Paul MacCready : human-powered airplane (1977)
Garrett Morgan : traffic signal (1923)
Elmer Ambrose Sperry : gyrocompass (1911).
Thomas Fogarty : balloon embolectomy catheter (1961)
Wilson Greatbatch : implantable cardiac pacemaker (1958)
Dean Kamen : portable medication technology (1970s)
Mary-Claire King : advances in the treatment of breast cancer (1990)
Robert Langer : biomedical applications of polymers (1980s)
Rosalyn Yalow : RIA, radioimmunoassay (1959)
Consumer products. Leo Baekeland : Bakelite, the first modern plastic (1907)
Harold "Doc" Edgerton : stop-action photography (1931)
Philo T. Farnsworth : electronic television (1927)
Stephanie Kwolek : Kevlar (1964)
Jerome Lemelson : apparatus for driving tape in a cartridge (1972)
Jacob Rabinow : self-regulating clock (1954)
Percy Spencer : microwave oven (1947)
Transportation. Ole Evinrude : outboard boat motor (1907)
Henry Ford : assembly line (1913)
Robert Goddard : liquid-fueled rocket (1926)
Paul MacCready : human-powered airplane (1977)
Garrett Morgan : traffic signal (1923)
Elmer Ambrose Sperry : gyrocompass (1911).
السلسلة
السلسلة
publication of the Lemelson-MIT program for invention and innovation.
Published
Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2002.
اللغة(لغات)
eng
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