Publisher's Synopsis
There have been many important inventors throughout history, but only a handful are usually recognized simply by their last name. This shortlist is of some of the esteemed inventors who are responsible for major innovations such as the printing press, the light bulb, television, and, yes, even the iPhone. A look into the numerous inventions we now take for granted by great inventors such as Archimedes, Galileo, Leonardo da Vinci, Louis Pasteur, Marie Curie, Alan Turing, and Steve Jobs.1. Archimedes (287 BCE - c. 212 BCE) 2. Cai Lun (50-121 CE) 3. Leonardo Da Vinci (1452-1519)4. Galileo (1564-1642)5. Sir Isaac Newton (1642-1726)6. Thomas Savery (c. 1650-1715)7. Thomas Newcomen (1664-1729)8. Jethro Tull (1674-1741)9. Abraham Darby (1678-1717)10. John Harrison (1693-1776)11. Benjamin Franklin (1705-1790)12. William Cullen (1710-1790)13. John Wilkinson (1728-1808)14. Sir Richard Arkwright15. James Watt (1736-1819)16. Alessandro Volta (1745-1827)17. Sir Humphrey Davy (1778-1829) 18. Louis Daguerre (1787 - 1851)19. Charles Babbage (1791-1871)20. Michael Faraday (1791-1867)21. William Henry Fox Talbot (1800-1877)22. Louis Braille (1809-1852)23. Kirkpatrick Macmillan (1812-1878)24. James Clerk Maxwell (1831-1879)25. Karl Benz (1844-1929)26. Thomas Edison (1847-1931)27. Alexander Bell (1847-1922)28. Nikola Tesla (1856-1943)29. Rudolf Diesel (1858-1913)30. Édouard Michelin (1859-1940)31. Marie Curie (1867-1934)32. The Wright Brothers (1871-1948) 33. Guglielmo Marconi (1874-1937)34. Alexander Fleming (1881-1955)35. John Logie Baird (1888-1946)36. Enrico Fermi (1901-1954)37. J. Robert Oppenheimer (1904-1967)38. Alan Turing (1912-1954) 39. Robert Noyce (1927-1990)40. James Dyson (1947- ) 41. Tim Berners-Lee (1955- )42. Steve Jobs (1955-2011)
