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Name Index
Abel, Frederick, 185
Ackermann, Rudolph, 124
Ader, Clément, 147
Alderton, Charles, 278
Alexanderson, Ernst F. W., 253–254, 266
Ampère, André M., 34
Arco, Georg W. A. von, 251
Armat, Thomas, 222
Armstrong, Edwin, 255
Aspdin, Joseph, 170
Babbage, Charles, 262
Baekeland, Leo, 181
Baker, Benjamin, 165
Barraud, Francis, 240
Barrett, William, 104
Bayer, Karl J., 177
Bell,
Alexander G., 18, 198–200, 228–232, 234, 307
patents, 226, 228–232, 234
Chichester, 236
Lowthian, 155, 162
Benardos, Nikolai N., 95
Bennett, Charles, 215
Benton, Linn B., 205
Benz,
Bertha, 99, 114
Karl, 98–101, 111–112, 120, 268, 282
first cars, 98–99, 112–114
four-stroke engines, 113–114
patents, 112
two-stroke engines, 112–113
Berliner, Emil, 227, 231, 237–239, 240, 266
Berthier, Pierre, 173
Bessemer, Henry, 158, 166
Birch, John, 279