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Inventors and Inventions (Hardcover, Four Volume Set)
Series: Great Lives from History
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This work features in-depth critical essays on important men and
women inventors of all time, from around the world. Plus, free
online access to the full content of this remarkable reference set
is available. The printed reference includes: four volumes,
including 2,048 pages; 409 essays and 409 sidebars; hundreds of
photos, illustrations and graphs; and, appendixes, indexes and
resource listings. Features of the online subscription include:
fully supported; complimentary online access; unlimited users at
your library; full access from home or dorm room; immediate access
via online registration; a simple, intuitive interface; user
profile areas for students and patrons; sophisticated search
functions; complete content, including appendixes; and, fully
illustrated. ""Great Lives from History: Inventors and Inventions""
features 409 essays covering 413 individual inventors (including 27
women) from all time, worldwide. All essays were written
specifically for this new publication. The editors have included in
this set those inventors recognized for shaping modern technology
and the way we live today - coverage that is essential in any
liberal arts curriculum. The editor's criteria for including these
individuals in this publication took into account their fame as
inventors, the significance of their inventions, the amount of time
they spent inventing, their representation of world inventors,
their relevance to class curricula, and their interest to high
school, undergraduate, and general readers. For purposes of this
publication, the term 'invention' was defined to include not only
mechanical and other physical devices but also processes (e.g., the
Bessemer process for making steel), software (such as Grace
Hopper's invention of COBOL), and systems such as those applied to
business management. Pure scientific theories (such as laws of
physics) were excluded, although rare exceptions were made for such
systems and tools that have had an comprehensive influence on our
way of interacting with the world, such as Aristotle's invention of
the first system of biological taxonomy, Newton's creation of the
calculus, and Einstein's theories of relativity.
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