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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. 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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Godfrey Hounsfield and the Invention of CAT Scans

ISBN 1-58415-119-6

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Henry Ford and the Assembly Line

ISBN 1-58415-173-0

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Jacques-Yves Cousteau: His Story Under the Sea

ISBN 1-58415-112-9 • 9781584151128

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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 continue to come 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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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 challenged his every operation, Damadian and the FONAR Corporation continued 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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Robert Jarvik and the First Artificial Heart

ISBN 1-58415-116-1 • 9781584151166

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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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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.