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Preface page ix Prologue xi

1FromRiquettoWatt 1 Pierre-Paul Riquet (1604–1680) 1 Sebastien´ le Prestre de Vauban (1633–1707) 4 James Brindley (1716–1772) 6 John Smeaton (1724–1792) 9 James Watt (1736–1819) 12

2 From Jessop to Marc Isambard Brunel 16 William Jessop (1745–1814) 16 Lazare Carnot (1753–1823) 18 Thomas Telford (1757–1834) 20 John Rennie (1761–1821) 23 Sir Marc Isambard Brunel (1769–1849) 27

3 From Trevithick to Sadi Carnot 33 Richard Trevithick (1771–1833) 33 Sir George Cayley (1773–1857) 37 George Stephenson (1781–1848) 40 Charles Babbage (1791–1871) 44 Charles Blacker Vignoles (1793–1875) 50 Sadi Carnot (1796–1832) 54

4 From Henry to Bazalgette 57 Joseph Henry (1797–1878) 57 John Ericsson (1803–1889) 62 Robert Stephenson (1803–1859) 64 Isambard Kingdom Brunel (1806–1859) 67 John Augustus Roebling (1806–1869) 71 Sir Joseph William Bazalgette (1819–1891) 74

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5 From Eads to Bell 78 James Buchanan Eads (1820–1887) 78 William Thomson (Lord Kelvin of Largs) (1824–1907) 80 Gustave Eiffel (1832–1923) 86 George Westinghouse (1846–1914) 90 Thomas Alva Edison (1847–1931) 92 Alexander Graham Bell (1847–1922) 98

6 From Braun to Hertz 103 Ferdinand Braun (1850–1918) 103 Hertha Ayrton (1854–1923) 105 Sir Charles Parsons (1854–1931) 108 Granville Woods (1856–1910) 112 Nikola Tesla (1856–1943) 115 Heinrich Hertz (1857–1894) 120

7 From Diesel to Marconi 127 Rudolf Diesel (1858–1913) 127 Elmer A Sperry (1860–1930) 130 Wilbur Wright (1867–1912) and Orville Wright (1871–1948) 133 Frederick Lanchester (1868–1946) 137 Guglielmo Marconi (1874–1937) 140

8 From Pal’chinskii to Zworykin 145 Peter Akimovich Pal’chinskii (1875–1929) 145 Edith Clarke (1883–1959) 149 Andrei Tupolev (1888–1972) 152 John Logie Baird (1888–1946) 155 Vladimir Kosma Zworykin (1889–1982) 159

9 From Gabor to Shannon 163 Dennis Gabor (1900–1979) 163 Sergei Pavlovich Korolev (1907–1966) 168 Sir Frank Whittle (1907–1996) 170 William Shockley (1910–1989) 173

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Wernher von Braun (1912–1977) 178 Claude Shannon (1916–2001) 182

Epilogue 188 Bibliography 191 Credits 200 Image credits 202

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