Table of Contents
Acknowledgments v
Foreword Michael Halls 1
Preface 2
The Innovators (A-Z)
André, Henri-Georges (1896-1967) 3
Bacon, Francis Thomas (1904-1992) 4
Bagotsky, Vladimir Sergeevich (1920-2012) 7
Bagshaw, Norman Ernest (1933- ) 8
Bain, Alexander (1810-1877) 10
Barak, Montefiore (1904-1989) 11
Bode, Hans Heinrich Christian (1905-1989) 14
Bohnstedt, Werner (1945- ) 16
Brush, Charles Francis (1849-1929) 17
Bullock, Kathryn R. (1945- ) 19
Bunsen, Robert Wilhelm Eberhard (1811-1899) 23
Burbank, Jeanne B. (1915-2002) 25
Burgess, Charles Frederick (1873-1945) 28
Cairns, Elton James (1932- ) 30
Callan, Nicholas Joseph (1799-1864) 32
Chapin, Daryl M. (1906-1995), Calvin Souther Fuller (1902-1994) and Gerald Leondus Pearson (1905-1987) 36
Clark, Josiah Latimer (1822-1898) 41
Coetzer, Johan (1941- ) 42
Conway, Brian Evans (1927-2005) 46
Cooper, John Frederick (1946- ) 48
Daniell, John Frederic (1790-1845) 50
Davy Humphry (1778-1829) 53
Devitt, John Lawrence (1925- ) 56
Dicks, Andrew Leslie (1948- ) 60
Drumm, James J. (1897-1974) 62
Edison, Thomas Alva (1847-1931) 64
Faure, Camille Alphonse (1840-1898) 67
Feder, David O. (1924-2011) 71
Franklin, Benjamin (1706-1790) 72
Furukawa, Jun (1957- ) 74
Garche, Jürgen Werner (1944- ) 78
Gassner, Carl (1839-1882) 81
Goodenough, John Bannister (1922- ) 84
Grätzel, Michael (1944- ) 89
Greatbatch, Wilson (1919-2011) 92
Green, Martin Andrew (1948- ) 94
Grey, Clare P. (1965- ) 98
Grove, William Robert (1811-1896) 100
Hare, Robert (1781-1858) 102
Haring, Howard Egbert (1898-1965) 102
Hatazawa, Tsuyonobu (1962- ) 103
Hellesen, Frederik Louis Wilhelm (1836-1892) 105
Jache, Otto (1915-1993) 107
Jacques, William W. (1855-1932) 109
Jedlik, Ányos (1800-1895) 111
Jungner, Ernst Waldemar (1869-1924) 114
Kabanov, Boris Nikolaevich (1904-1988) 118
Kelley, Kurtis C. (1952- ) 120
Kirchhof, Charles F. (1811-1882) 123
König, Wilhelm (fl. 1930s) 124
Kordesch, Karl V. (1922-2011) 125
Lam, Lan Trieu (1953- ) 129
Leclanché, Georges (1839-1882) 132
Lewis, Gilbert Newton (1875-1946) and Frederick George Keyes (1885-1976) 134
Monahov, Boris Ivanov (1954- ) 135
Moseley, Patrick Timothy (1943- ) 138
Musschenbroek, Pieter (Petrus) van (1692-1761) 140
Nora, Vittorio de (1912-2008) 143
Ogumi, Zempachi (1945- ) 145
Ohl, Russell Shoemaker (1898-1987) 147
Ovshinsky, Stanford Robert (1922-2012) 148
Pavlov, Detchko (1930- ) 152
Peters, Kenneth (1928- ) 156
Pierson, John Ronald (1936- ) 160
Planté, Raymond-Louis-Gaston (1834-1889) 167
Prengaman, R. David (1943- ) 171
Rand, David Anthony James (1942-) 175
Renard, Charles (1847-1905) 179
Ritter, Johann Wilhelm (1776-1810) 181
Ruben, Samuel (1900-1988) 182
Ruetschi, Paul (1925- ) 187
Sadoway, Donald Robert (1950- ) 189
Salkind, Alvin J. (1927-2015) 190
Sampson, Henry Thomas (1934- ) 193
Sastry, Ann Marie (1967- ) 194
Scrosati, Bruno (1937- ) 197
Sinsteden, Wilhelm Josef (1803-1891) 199
Skyllas-Kazacos, Maxia (1951- ) 200
Smee, Alfred (1818-1877) 207
Sudworth, James (1939-2013) 208
Takeuchi, Esther Sans (1953- ) 212
Thackeray, Michael Makepeace (1949-) 215
Tobias, Charles W. (1920-1996) 223
Trouvé, Gustave Pierre (1939-1902) 224
Urry, Lewis F. (1927-2004) 228
Volta, Alessandro Giuseppe Antonio Anastasio (1745-1827) 231
Voss, Ernst Christian Hinrich (1923-2004) 235
Whittingham, M. Stanley (1941- ) 237
Wollaston, William Hyde (1766-1828) 242
Yai, Sakizou (1863-1927) 243
Yeager, Ernest B. (1924-2002) 244
Zamboni, Giuseppe (1776-1846) 246
Appendix: Timeline 249
Bibliography 253
Index 255