How James Watt Invented the Copier: Forgotten Inventions of Our Great Scientists [Paperback]

Features 25 different scientists and the ideas which may not have made them famous, but made history&

Typically, we remember our greatest scientists from one single invention, one new formula or one incredible breakthrough. This narrow perspective does not give justice to the versatility of many scientists who also earned a reputation in other areas of science. James Watt, for instance, is known for inventing the steam engine, yet most people do not know that he also invented the copier. Alexander Graham Bell of course invented the telephone, but only few know that he invented artificial breathing equipment, a prototype of the iron lung. Edmond Halley, whose name is associated with the comet that visits Earth every 75 years, produced the first mortality tables, used for life insurances. This entertaining book is aimed at anyone who enjoys reading about inventions and discoveries by the most creative minds. Detailed illustrations of the forgotten designs and ideas enrich the work throughout.

Johannes Kepler: Keplers laws  Snow crystals.- Robert Hooke: Hookes law  Surveyor and architect.- Edmond Halley: Comet  Mortality tables.- Daniel Bernoulli: Bernoullis principle  Utility function.- Benjamin Franklin: Electricity  Gulfstream.- Joseph Priestley: Oxygen  Carbonated water.- James Watt: Steam engine  Copier.- Edward Jenner: Pox vaccine  Cuckoos nest.- John Dalton: Atomic theory  Colour blindness.- Thomas Young: Light  Rosetta Stone.- Justus von Liebig: Fertilizer  Stock.- Charles Darwin: Evolution  Earthworms.- William Thomson: Absolute temperature  Transatlantic cable.- James Clerk Maxwell : Maxwell equations  Colour photo.- Alexander Graham Bell: Telephone  Artificial resuscitation.- Hendrik Antoon Lorentz: Electron theory  Enclosing dyke.- Svante Arrhenius: Ionic theory  Global warming.- Pierre Curie: Radioactivity  Piezo-electricity.- Walther Nernst : Thermodynamics  Neo-Bechstein piano.- Albert Einstein: Relativity  RefrlS%