BlueGator Posted May 2, 2008 Share Posted May 2, 2008 I would like to know what you consider to be the most Influential 5 Most influential British Authors 5 Most influential American Authors 5 Most influential Inventors Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jenny in Atl Posted May 2, 2008 Share Posted May 2, 2008 Only five for each! Boy, you all don't make these easy... Ok, here's my try. 5 Most influential British Authors Shakespeare Blake Orwell Bronte Sisters (3 for 1) Dickens 5 Most influential American Authors Twain Whitman/Thoreau James Baldwin Hemingway Poe Charles Bukowski (I had to fit in an extra...:tongue_smilie: 5 Most influential Inventors Da Vinci Archimedis Edison G.W. Carver Gutenberg Oh and Alan Turing, Nicolas Otto, Ben Franklin.... I can never limit myself to just 5!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlueGator Posted May 2, 2008 Author Share Posted May 2, 2008 Thanks, I'm trying to cover the biggest and most influential writers and inventors as we go through history. There are so many that it becomes overwhelming to parse it down. We are just finishing STOW 3. I think I would have to put Thomas Jefferson - Declaration of Independance down as one of the most influential American writers. I would not have put him down before STOW 3. Most of the American Writers I can think of are 1800s to 1900s, maybe they didn't have time to write while they were building a country. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dayle in Guatemala Posted May 2, 2008 Share Posted May 2, 2008 I would like to know what you consider to be the most Influential 5 Most influential British Authors 5 Most influential American Authors 5 Most influential Inventors British Authors Charles Dickens William Shakespeare Jane Austen the Bronte's Scott American Authors Hemingway Fitzgerald Mark Twain Edgar Allen Poe Emily Dickenson (poetry) Inventors DaVinci Gutenberg Not up on inventors so that's about it for me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brindee Posted May 2, 2008 Share Posted May 2, 2008 I'll just add to the Inventors list: Alexander Graham Bell Thomas Edison George Washington Carver The Wright Brothers Henry Ford Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kay in Cal Posted May 2, 2008 Share Posted May 2, 2008 5 Most influential British Authors: Shakespeare Austen Dickens Wells Christie 5 Most influential American Authors Melville Poe Twain Steinbeck Hemingway 5 Most influential Inventors: Guttenburg Whitney Edison Oppenheimer Farnsworth I wanted to include James Joyce somewhere as well, but he's Irish. Dh and I had a long Tesla vs. Edison discussion... so that was a close one too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soph the vet Posted May 2, 2008 Share Posted May 2, 2008 One more inventor not mentioned yet: Benjamin Franklin Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
K-FL Posted May 2, 2008 Share Posted May 2, 2008 I'll just add to the Inventors list: Henry Ford I guess he counts, but all he invented was the assembly line. :001_smile: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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