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Tables of Contents for Scientists Who Changed the World
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
The Invention of Gunpowder
10
5
Kaifung
Printing with Movable Type
15
5
Johannes Gutenberg
Galileo & His Telescope
20
4
Galileo Galilei
Newton & the Laws of Gravity
24
3
Isaac Newton
Watt & the Steam Engine
27
5
James Watt
Preserving Food
32
3
Donkin
Hall
The Invention of Photography
35
4
Louis Daguerre
Darwin's Theory of Evolution
39
5
Charles Darwin
Lister the Germ-killer
44
4
Joseph Lister
Bell & the Telephone
48
4
Alexander Graham Bell
Marie Curie & Radium
52
3
Marie Curie
The First Powered Flight
55
5
Kitty Hawk
N Carolina
Henry Ford & His Model T
60
5
Henry Ford
Einstein's Theory of Relativity
65
4
Albert Einstein
The Inventors of Television
69
3
John Logie Baird
Building the First Computers
72
3
Alan Turing
Bletchley
Buck
The Atom Bomb
75
4
The Decoders of DNA
79
3
Crick
Watson
Wilkins
Franklin
The Launch of Sputnik I
82
4
Tyunatam
The First Men on the Moon
86
5
Aldrin
Armstrong
Collins
Cape Kennedy
Further Reading
91
1
Index
91