Invention and Technology

Great Lives

by Milton Lomask

Invention and Technology's Great Lives includes a list of important dates in the history of invention and technology.

Author Milton Lomask offers brief life stories of twenty-seven persons whose inventions or discoveries have altered the environment to a marked degree. It's all in his work, Invention and Technology's Great Lives.

288 pages, Hardcover

First published October 31, 1991

About the author

Raised in Maquoketa, Iowa, Milton Nachman Lomask earned a BA in journalism at the University of Iowa. After working in a succession of newspaper jobs in Texas, St. Louis, New York City and Chicago, he earned an MA degree at Northwestern University in 1941. Lomask served in the United States Army's Chemical Warfare Service during World War II, after which he worked in advertising and publicity before quitting in 1950 to work full-time as a writer.