03268cam a2200445 i 4500 2418784894 TxAuBib 20250630120000.0 930609s1993||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 93021705 9780679847878 0679847871 9780679847885 067984788X (OCoLC)28426561 TxAuBib rda Clements, Gillian. The picture history of great inventors / by Gillian Clements. New York : A. Knopf, 1993. 77 pages : color illustrations ; 27 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Includes index. The earliest inventions -- Archimedes: 287 B.C.-212 B.C. -- Hero of Alexandria: 1st Century A.D. -- Medieval inventions -- Johann Gutenberg: c.1397-1468 -- Leonardo da Vinci: 1452-1519 -- Gerardus Mercator: 1512-1594 -- Christiaan Huygens: 1629-1695 -- Galileo Galilei: 1564-1642 -- Blaise Pascal: 1623-1662 -- Isaac Newton: 1642-1727 -- Anton van Leeuwenhoek: 1632-1723 -- Thomas Newcomen: 1663-1729 -- Benjamin Franklin: 1706-1790 -- Richard Arkwright: 1732-1792 -- James Watt: 1736-1819 -- Joseph Montgolfier: 1740-1810 and Jacques Etienne Montgolfier: 1745-1799 -- Antoine Lavoisier: 1743-1794 -- Edward Jenner: 1749-1823 -- Alessandro Volta: 1745-1827 -- Baron von Drais von Sauerbronn: 1785-1851 -- Charles Babbage: 1792-1871 -- Charles Macintosh: 1766-1843 -- Joseph Nicephore Niepce: 1765-1833 -- George Stephenson: 1781-1848 -- Samuel Morse: 1791-1872 -- Samuel Colt: 1814-1862 -- Michael Faraday: 1791-1867 -- Etienne Lenoir: 1822-1900 -- I.K. Brunel: 1806-1859 -- Elisha Otis: 1811-1861 -- Edwin Drake: 1819-1899 -- Alfred Nobel: 1833-1896 -- Joseph Lister: 1827-1912 -- Thomas Edison: 1847-1931 -- Alexander Graham Bell: 1847-1922 -- Karl Benz: 1844-1929 and Gottlieb Daimler: 1834-1900 -- Auguste Lumiere: 1862-1954 and Louis Lumiere: 1864-1948 -- Wilbur Wright: 1867-1912 and Orville Wright: 1871-1948 -- Guglielmo Marconi: 1874-1937 -- Konstantin Tsiolkovsky: 1857-1935 -- Albert Einstein: 1879-1955 -- John Logie Baird: 1888-1946 -- Laszlo Biro: 1900-1985 -- Frank Whittle: 1907- -- John W. Mauchly: 1907-1980 and J. Presper Eckert, Jr.: 1919- -- Enrico Fermi: 1901-1954 -- Christopher Cockerell: 1910- -- Theodore Maiman: 1927- -- The seventies -- The eighties -- The nineties. An illustrated introduction to sixty major inventors, from the unknown inventor of the wheel to today's developers of virtual reality. 20250630. Inventions History Juvenile literature. Inventions History Pictorial works Juvenile literature. Inventors History Juvenile literature. Inventors History Pictorial works Juvenile literature. Inventors. Inventions. History. fast Juvenile works. fast Pictorial works. fast Illustrated works. lcgft Literature. lcgft https://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/description/random0410/93021705.html Publisher description