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Great Lives from History: Inventors & Inventions
Great Lives from History: Inventors & Inventions, Second Edition features 457 essays covering important inventors from all over the world. This new edition features updates to existing biographies as well as dozens of brand-new essays. Essays cover inventors who contributed significantly to the development mechanical and physical devices as well as processes, software, and systems. Inventors from a wide range of industries are featured including aerospace technology, architecture, astrophysics, automotive technology, biomedicine, computer science, and more. From Belarus to Nigeria to the United States, important inventors from all over the world are highlighted in these volumes.
The biographical coverage in Great Lives from History: Inventors & Inventions, Second Edition is vast. Notable figures discussed in these volumes include:
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Each essay is approximately 2,000-2,500 words in length and displays standard reference top matter, offering easy access to the following biographical information: the name by which the subject is best known, the individual’s occupation, a summary of the individual’s historical importance in relation to their contributions as an inventor, indicating why the person is studied today, and the most complete dates of birth and death, followed by the most precise locations of these events available.
Each essay concludes with a byline of the contributing writer-scholar. The body of each essay is divided into the following three parts:
- Early Life provides facts about the individual’s upbringing and the environment in which the person was reared. Where little is known about the person’s early life, historical context is provided. The correct pronunciation of names is provided when unfamiliar to English speakers.
- Life’s Work, the heart of the essay, consists of a straightforward, generally chronological account of the period during which the individual’s most significant achievements were accomplished.
- Impact provides an overview of the individual’s place in history and how his or her inventions changed the way we live.
Each essay also includes a Further Reading section that provides a starting point for further research. Several features distinguish this series as a whole from other biographical reference works. The following aids are included in these volumes:
- Key to Pronunciation: A key to in-text pronunciation of unfamiliar names appears in all volumes. Pronunciation guidelines for difficult-to-pronounce names are provided in the first paragraph of the essay’s Early Life Section.
- Complete List of Contents: An alphabetical list of all of the individuals covered in the set appears in each volume.
- List of Inventions: This index lists all major inventions covered, showing the inventor in parentheses.
- Sidebars: A highlight of this publication, numerous entries contain sidebars providing a deeper glimpse into the most important contributions each profiled inventor may have made.
Appendixes in Great Lives from History: Inventors & Inventions, Second Edition include a chronological list of entries, a Glossary, a Timeline, a Biographical Directory, Electronic Resources, a Bibliography, a Category Index, a Geographical Index, and a Subject Index.
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