Inventors and inventions

Covers inventors of the past and present, including the creators of Kevlar, Coca Cola, eBay, and the Global Positioning System. Explores the early life of each inventor, their education and professional life, and their contributions to society. Surveys the history of technological advancements in fields such as agriculture, transportation, communication, entertainment, textiles, medicine, and others.

Presents alphabetically organized entries that examine the lives and work of inventors, from James T. Russel to Ferdinand von Zeppelin, with biographies and articles about science technology, mathematics, transportation, and young inventors.

Presents alphabetically organized entries that examine the lives and work of inventors, from Robert Noyce and Jack Kilby to John A. Roebling, with biographies and articles about the military, weaponry, optics and vision, and patents.

Presents alphabetically organized entries that examine the lives and work of inventors, from Mary Anderson to Samuel Colt, with biographies and articles about accidents and mistakes, buildings and materials, and cloth and apparel.

Presents alphabetically organized entries that examine the lives and work of inventors, from Martin Cooper to Fuller Buckminster, with biographies and articles about communications, computers, contests, corporate invention, energy, power, entertainment, environment and investing, and food and agriculture.

Presents 172 entries that examine the lives and work of inventors in the field of communications, transportation, entertainment, medicine, home economics, and agriculture, with biographies and articles about environmental concerns, the patent process, the role of youth, and more.