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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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Titre
Inventing modern America : from the microwave to the mouse / text by David E. Brown ; foreword by Lester C. Thurow ; introductions by James Burke.
Description
xi, 209 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm.
ISBN
0262025086
9780262025089 hc.
0262523493 pb
9780262523493 pb
0585481016
9780585481012
9780262025089 hc.
0262523493 pb
9780262523493 pb
0585481016
9780585481012
Autre cote
G 111 BRO.I
Résumé
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.
Note
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.
Bibliographie, remarque
Includes bibliographical references (pages 198-200) and index.
Remarque du contenu formatté
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).
Série
Série
publication of the Lemelson-MIT program for invention and innovation.
Publié
Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2002.
Langue
Anglais
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