By David E. Brown
Winner of the 2002 IEEE-USAB Award for wonderful Literary Contributions Furthering Engineering Professionalism. and Winner within the type of technology within the 2002 self sustaining writer e-book Awards (IPPYs) provided by means of autonomous writer journal. Inventing sleek the United States profiles thirty-five inventors who exemplify the wealthy technological creativity of the USA over the last century. the diversity in their contributions is vast. they've got helped remodel our houses, our healthcare, our paintings, the environment, and how we shuttle and speak. The inventors profiled comprise such recognized figures as George Washington Carver, Henry Ford, and Steve Wozniak, in addition to unsung technological pioneers resembling Stephanie Kwolek, inventor of Kevlar, and Wilson Greatbatch, inventor of the 1st implantable cardiac pacemaker. Inventing smooth the US is designed to create pleasure approximately invention during the own tales of those American scientists, technologists, and researchers. it's available adequate to interact highschool scholars but wide-ranging and engaging adequate to entice a person who has ever puzzled the place microwave ovens and site visitors lighting fixtures come from. The e-book was once built by means of the Lemelson-MIT software for Invention and Innovation, whose venture is to encourage a brand new iteration of yankee scientists, engineers, and marketers.
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The conceptual eral nineteenth-century mill buildings on the Manchester river- idea of the pump wasn’t very hard,” he remembers, “but mak- front to house the company. And he continued his hobby of ing a device that is going to have lethal, toxic amounts of drug collecting antique engines and machinery, some of which are in it that has to work right all the time—that turned out to be displayed in his office. ” A new kind of microchip that Although the engines are often beautiful, his interest in an- required very little power had recently come out and Kamen tique technology is not merely aesthetic.
Joseph Vacanti and that also has chemical characteristics that will make it stop of Harvard University began working on growing human skin in at a certain part of the cell, where it will release a payload of DNA. the lab in the 1980s. Skin cells were grown on a two-dimen- Although the fields Langer has helped create—biomedical sional frame made of polyanhydrides. As the cells multiplied polymers and tissue engineering—are barely 25 years old, they and became a coherent tissue, the polymer frame biodegraded, have already benefited millions of people.
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