This Biographical Dictionary seeks to put the world of technology in the context of those who have made the most important contribution to it. For the first time information ...

* 22 sections cover the entire field of the history of technology and each section summarises the development of its subject from the earliest times to the present day ...

Listing of 100 people from around the world and from many different fields of endeavor, whose actions--the author has determined--have had, or will have, the greatest influence ...