TY  - BOOK
AU  - Brown,David E.
AU  - Thurow,Lester C.
AU  - Burke,James
TI  - Inventing modern America: from the microwave to the mouse 
SN  - 9780262025089
AV  - T 20 B877i 2002
U1  - 609.73/09/04 
PY  - 2002///
CY  - Cambridge, Mass.
PB  - MIT Press
KW  - Inventions
KW  - United States
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Invenciones
KW  - Estados Unidos
KW  - Historia
KW  - Siglo XX
KW  - Inventors
KW  - Biography
KW  - Inventores
KW  - Biografías
N1  - "A publication of the Lemelson-MIT program for invention and innovation."; Includes bibliographical references (pages 198-200) and index; 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)
N2  - Tells 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
UR  - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/fy022/2001044768.html
ER  -