03608cam a2200373 a 450000100090000000300080000900500170001700700030003400800410003701000170007802000180009502000150011304000230012804100080015104200080015904300120016705000210017908200170020010000300021724501530024726000430040030000600044350000780050350400670058150519170064852003190256565000540288465000550293865000410299365000470303470000600308170000180314185600750315912512648BJBSDDR20250210185019.0ta010824s2002    maua     b    001 0deng    a  2001044768  a9780262025089  a0262025086  aDLCcDLCdDLCbeng  aeng  apcc  an-us---14aT 20bB877i 200200a609.73/09/041 aBrown, David E., d1969- 10aInventing modern America :bfrom the microwave to the mouse /ctext by David E. Brown ; foreword by Lester C. Thurow ; introductions by James Burke.  aCambridge, Mass. :bMIT Press,cc2002.  axi, 209 pages : billustrations (some color) ; c29 cm.  a"A publication of the Lemelson-MIT program for invention and innovation."  aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 198-200) and index.0 aMedicine 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)  aTells 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 0aInventionszUnited StatesxHistoryy20th century. 4aInvenciones zEstados Unidos xHistoria ySiglo XX 0aInventorszUnited StatesvBiography. 4aInventores zEstados UnidosvBiografías 1 aThurow, Lester C.q(Lester Carl), d1938-2016eforeword1 aBurke, James 413Table of contentsuhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/fy022/2001044768.html