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Chester Carlson and the Development of Xerography

ISBN 1-58415-117-X • 9781584151173

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Chester Carlson was determined to invent an easy, inexpensive method of copying documents. In 1938, he invented the process of "electrophotography," which later became known as "xerography." He would work for more than 20 years to develop the first automatic, plain paper copier. Despite years of failure, Carlson refused to give up. Though he was offered employment, he never worked for either the Battelle Corporation, nor Haloid Xerox. In fact, he spent most of his years in poverty. When the Xerox Model 914 was finally introduced in 1959 and became a success, Carlson became a multimillionaire. Catherine Carlson, Chester's wife's adopted daughter, supplied both photographs and insight into this story never told before for the young adult reader.

Edward Roberts and the Story of the Personal Computer

ISBN 1-58415-118-8 • 9781584151180

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The story of the pioneering young man who is credited with designing and marketing the first personal computer, the Altair.

Edward Teller and the Development of the Hydrogen Bomb

ISBN 1-58415-108-0 • 9781584151081

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Often called the "father of the hydrogen bomb," Edward Teller believes that the device he helped invent, with its potential to kill millions of people, actually made the world a safer place. "I am still asked on occasion whether I am not sorry for having invented such a terrible thing as the hydrogen bomb," he says. "The answer is, I am not." Teller adamantly believes that what he did saved lives. A Hungarian immigrant, Teller fled Nazi Germany and successfully proved that the atomic bomb could be used without creating a world-destroying chain reaction. Regardless of the opinion people have of him, his impact on the twentieth century is undeniable.

Godfrey Hounsfield and the Invention of CAT Scans

ISBN 1-58415-119-6

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Wilhelm Roentgen, who received the Nobel Prize in Physics for his discovery in 1901, had no idea how his x rays would later help doctors diagnose health problems. But it was not until the development of the computer and the genius of a man who realized that x-ray images could be stored and manipulated by computers, that x rays were used in an amazingly accurate diagnostic device known as computerized axial tomography, or CAT Scanner. That man is Godfrey Hounsfield and he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1979, along with Allan Cormack for his invention.

Henry Ford and the Assembly Line—

ISBN 1-58415-173-0

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The father of 20th century American industry, Ford instituted industrial mass production. But what mattered most to him was mass consumption. He figured that if he paid his factory workers a real living wage and produced more cars in less time for less money, everyone would buy them. He was right.

Jacques-Yves Cousteau: His Story Under the Sea

ISBN 1-58415-112-9 • 9781584151128

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Like space, the ocean is a place that has inspired people to describe it in fantastic stories. In the twentieth century, however, one very special man sought to uncover its secrets. He would shatter diving barriers by going deeper than anyone before him. He developed a system which made it possible for anyone, not just professional divers, to explore the ocean at depths only once imagined. Through filmmaking, he brought the wonders of the ocean into the living rooms of people around the world. His name is Jacques Cousteau and this is his story, the story of a man who brought the ocean's mysterious depths to the surface.

Luis Alvarez and the Development of the Bubble Chamber

ISBN 1-58415-140-4 • 9781584151401

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Many particles have been discovered and studied during the last half century. They are so minute that it is impossible to see them. They can only be identified by the tracks they leave behind them as they move. Luis Alvarez won a Nobel Prize in 1968 for his version of a powerful tracking tool called the bubble chamber. Equipped with this tool, scientists are coming closer to revealing nature's innermost secrets. Luis' bubble chamber contributed to the number of particles scientists now know about. His research played a part in the discovery of more than 70 elementary particles. This is the story of Luis Alvarez and his numerous contributions to physics.

Marc Andreessen and the Development of the Web Browser

ISBN 1-58415-092-0 • 9781584150923

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Working at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Marc Andreessen wanted to find a way to make the World Wide Web more user friendly. He wanted a program that would make browsing the internet really fun. In 1992, Marc and his friend Eric Bina worked on Marc's dream in their spare time on nights and weekends. What they came up with was a program which was an easy-to-use method of navigating the internet. With its ability to display colorful graphics and a simple point and click interface, internet was widely available for the first time outside of scientific applications. Soon partnering with Silicon Graphics founder Jim Clark, the two started Netscape and developed another web browser they called Navigator.

Philo T. Farnsworth: The Life of Television's Forgotten Inventor

Named One of the Best Science Books of 2004 by Science Books and Film

ISBN 1-58415-176-5 • 9781584151760

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RCA would like us all to believe that they invented television. And for years, all of us believed it was so. In fact, the inventor of electronic television was Philo Taylor Farnsworth, and he thought of the idea when he was only 14 years old, the moment of inspiration coming, according to legend, while he was tilling a potato field back and forth with a horse-drawn harrow and realized that an electron beam could scan images the same way, line by line, just as you read a book. To cap it off, he spent much of his adult life in a struggle with RCA, one of America's largest and most powerful corporations who had resources well beyond the means of Farnsworth. This is the wonderful story of a determined young man and his struggles to be accepted as the scientist and inventor he was. Though he never benefited financially from his invention, Time magazine did recognize him as one of the most important people of the 20th century. Now young adults can appreciate him as well.

Raymond Damadian and the Development of the MRI

ISBN 1-58415-141-2 • 9781584151418

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When Raymond Damadian was a student at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York, he planned to specialize in internal medicine. However, by the time he was in medical school, he decided to work in medical research instead of medical practice. After watching his grandmother die a slow death from breast cancer, Damadian was more committed than ever. Using the principles of NMR, Damadian built a scanner large enough to study the entire human body. After years of fighting legal battles to protect his patents and financial woes that challenge his every operation, Damadian and the FONAR Corporation continue to produce MRI scanners to aid in the early detection of cancer. This is the story of one man's determination to carry out his dreams.

Robert Goddard and the Liquid Rocket Engine

ISBN 1-58415-107-2 • 9781584151074

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There were many visionaries throughout time who have dreamed about rockets, but Robert Goddard built them. Illness held him back for two years in high school, and isolated him from his peers. Not surprisingly, books became his closest companions. As a teen, he was inspired by H.G. Wells, whose stories about a martian attack were published in the Boston Post. When he grew up, he tested his rockets on rural farms in Massachusetts and in the desert expanses of New Mexico despite doubt and ridicule from others. He refused to listen to the teachers and the scientists who told him the dreams of Verne and Wells were fantasies created to sell books. Goddard worked in almost complete isolation as he developed a liquid-fueled rocket.

Robert Jarvik and the First Artificial Heart

ISBN 1-58415-116-1 • 9781584151166

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Robert Jarvik is the son of a prominent surgeon and only became interested in medicine when heart disease nearly killed his father. Rejected by over a dozen medical schools, he left the United States to study in Italy and then worked in a New York medical supply house. His opportunity to be on the forefront of artificial heart development began when he was hired as a lab assistant earning just 100 dollars a week. He dreamed of creating an artificial heart. He hoped that someday a man-made heart could save the lives of people like his father. His name is Robert Jarvik and this is his story.

Tim Berners-Lee and the Development of the World Wide Web

ISBN 1-58415-096-3 • 9781584150961

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In 1990, English computer scientist Tim Berners-Lee invented the software known as the World Wide Web. He envisioned the Web as a way for everyone in the world to be able to work together to solve the common problems of humanity. Then, so that his invention could become the best it possibly could be, in 1993 Berners-Lee gave away the rights to URIs, HTTP, and HTML—all programs he had designed to make the Web possible. As he continues to guide the progress of his invention, he strives to ensure that the World Wide Web will always serve the public good.

Wallace Carothers and the Story of DuPont Nylon

ISBN 1-58415-097-1

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Wallace Carothers invented nylon and neoprene (synthetic rubber) for the DuPont Company, founding two industries that would catapult the DuPont Company to gargantuan proportions in the twentieth century. How Carothers and his team founded nylon and neoprene almost by accident is a fascinating story. Carothers was unhappy for much of his life. While no one knows the exact reasons, this young man killed himself before nylon even went into production. He never got to see how important the invention became, nor how many people benefited from his work.

Willem Kolff and the Invention of the Dialysis Machine

ISBN 1-58415-135-8 • 9781584151357

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After watching several patients die of kidney failure, Willem Kolff began to think of ways their deaths could have been prevented. "If I could just remove as much urea as this boy creates, which is about 20 grams, then the boy would live," he thought. He began to read every book he could find on purifying the blood. Through much experimentation, Kolff developed an artificial kidney. In 1946, Kolff donated his artificial kidneys to London, New York, and Montreal in an effort to help as many people as possible. Over the next half century, he would become known as one of the greatest medical inventors of all time and earn the nickname the Father of Artificial Organs.