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The articles in Inventions and Inventors recount the birth and growth
of important components in the technology of the twentieth centuries.
They concern inventions ranging from processes, methods,
sensors, and tests to appliances, tools, machinery, vehicles, electronics,
and materials. To explain these various inventions, the essays
deal with principles of physics, chemistry, engineering, biology, and
computers—all intended for general readers. From complex devices,
such as electron microscopes, and phenomena difficult to define,
such as the Internet, to things so familiar that they are seldom
thought of as having individual histories at all, such as Pyrex glass
and Velcro, all the inventions described here increased the richness
of technological life. Some of these inventions, such as the rotarydial
telephone, have passed out of common use, at least in the
United States and Europe, while others, such as the computer, are
now so heavily relied upon that mass technological culture could
scarcely exist without them. Each article, then, is at the same time a
historical sketch and technical explanation of an invention, written
to inform and, I hope, intrigue.

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