About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 28. Chapters: Kia Silverbrook, David Unaipon, Lawrence Hargrave, John Ridley, Edward Both, Richard Goldner, Charles K. Bliss, John W. Dickenson, James Harrison, David Warren, Peter Vogel, Harold Gatty, Elfric Wells Chalmers Kearney, George Augustine Taylor, Ric Richardson, Hugh Victor McKay, Louis Brennan, Lancelot De Mole, Henry Joseph Grayson, George Marchant, Cyril P. Callister, Dennis Charter, Clarence Herbert Smith, Richard Bowyer Smith, Sally Dominguez, John Arthur Andrews, Ken Warby, Tom Bowen, Arthur James Arnot, John Wrathall Bull, P. A. Yeomans, J. Mike O'Dwyer, Ralph Sarich, Alfred Hermann Traeger, Milan Hudecek, Thomas Angove, Charlie Booth, Colin Sullivan, Henry Sutton, Thomas Mayne, Dean Cameron, Frank Casey. Excerpt: Kia Silverbrook (born 1958) is an Australian inventor, scientist, and serial entrepreneur. He is the world's most prolific inventor with 4,072 granted U.S. utility patents as of 3 August 2011. Silverbrook has more patented inventions than Apple and Google combined, who have 3,269 and 717 U.S. utility patents respectively. Internationally, he has 9,027 patents or patent applications registered at the international patent document database (INPADOC). Silverbrook has made numerous inventions in the fields of digital music synthesis, digital video, digital printing, digital paper, internet commerce, computer graphics, liquid crystal displays, robotics, 3D fabrication, organic chemistry, software, image processing, microelectromechanical systems, mechanical engineering, cryptography, sensors, nanotechnology, microfluidics, polymers, fault tolerance, parallel processing, semiconductor fabrication, and integrated circuit (chip) architecture. For all of the 20th century, Thomas Edison was the most prolific inventor in history, with a final tally of 1,084 U.S. utility patents. Edison was passed by Japanese...
