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Inventing modern America : from the microwave to the mouse /
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, Mass. :
MIT Press,
©2002.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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).
- Energy and environment. George Washington Carver : industrial applications for agricultural products (1910s)
- Carl Djerassi : nontoxic pest-control products (1960s)
- Sally Fox : naturally colored cotton (1989)
- Buckminster Fuller : geodesic dome (1950)
- Ashok Gadgil : ultraviolet water purification system (1993)
- Stanford Ovshinksy : mass production of photovoltaic cells (1983)
- John Todd : ecosystems for combating pollution (1984)
- Computing and telecommunications. Nolan Bushnell : video game (1971)
- Douglas Engelbart : computer mouse (1968)
- Al Gross : walkie-talkie (1937)
- Erna Schneider Hoover : computerized telephone switching system (1965)
- Grace Murray Hopper : computer compiler (1952)
- Raymond Kurzweil : optical reading machine for the blind (1976)
- Carver Mead : very-large-scale integrated circuits (1971)
- Steve Wozniak : personal computer (1976).