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Headwords A-C
The editors welcome suggestions for additions to the headword list. These suggestions will be handled on a case-by-case basis.
Reserved Entries
1905 Russian Revolution
1917 Russian Revolution
1926 General Strike (Britain)
40 Principles of Invention
Acheson, Edward Goodrich
Aerosol spray cans
Aerospace industry
AFL-CIO
Agent Orange
Airplane
Alcorn, George Edward
Alger, Horatio
Altshuller, Genrikh Saulovich
American Federation of Labor
American Plan
American Stock Exchange
American System
American Tobacco
Anarchism
Angerstein, Reinhold Rücker
Anheuser, Eberhard
anthropometrics
arc welding
Argentina
Arkwright, Richard
Armstrong, Edwin Howard
Armstrong, William George
Arts and Crafts Movement
asbestos
Ashley, Laura
Aspdin, Joseph
assembly line
Ataturk, (Mustafa, Kemal)
Automobile
Babbage, Charles
Babcock, George H.
Baekeland, Leo
Bagehot, Walter
Bamford, Samuel
Bank of England
Bank of the United States
bar code
barbed wire
Barlow, William Henry
Barton, Enos N.
BASIC
Bausch, John Jacob
Bednorz, Johannes
Belgium
Bell, Alexander Graham
Bell, Larry
Bellemy, Edward
Benz, Karl
Bessant, Annie
Bessemer Process
Bessemer, Henry
Beveridge, Sir William
Beyer, Carl Friederich
Bhopal Catastrophe
Bimetalism
Birdseye, Clarence
blacklist
Blair, Henry
Blanqui, Louis-Auguste
Bleichröder, Gerson
Blenkisop, John
Bloody Sunday (Trafalgar Square)
Boeing
Boer War, 1899-1902
Bolsheviks
Bondfield, Margaret
Booth, Charles
Boulton, Matthew
Bourgeoisie
boycott
Boykin, Otis
Brassey, Thomas
Brazil
Brearly, Henry
Brewing and Distilling
Bright, Harvey
Brindly, James
Brown, George R.
Browning, John Moses
Brunel, Isambard Kingdom
Brunel, Marc Isambard
Bund Deutscher Industrieller
Busch, Adolphus
Bush, Vannevar
Canals
Capitalism
Carborundum
Carlyle, Thomas
Carnegie, Andrew
Carnot, Sadi
Carrier, Willis
Carson, Rachel
Cartwright, Edmund
Carver, George Washington
Cassette Tape
caudillo
cell phones
cellophane
Central Pacific Railroad
Centralverband Deutscher Industrieller
Chadwick, Edwin
Chartists
Chernobyl Nuclear Power Station
child labor
China
China Merchants Steam Navigation Company
Claude, George
Clegg, Samuel
closed shop
Coal
Coca Cola
Cockerill, John
Collective Bargaining
Colt, Samuel
Combination Acts
confection
Continental System
conveyor belt
Cooke, William
Cooper, Peter
Coors, Joseph
Copyright
Corn Laws
Cornu, Paul
Corporation
Cort, Henry
cotton gin
Cottonopolis
Cray, Seymour
Crompton, Samuel
Crystal Palace Exhibition of 1851
Cudahy, Michael
Curie, Marie
Czechoslovakia
Available Entries
AB Volvo
All-China General Union
Alternative energies
Amalgamated Society of Engineers
An Wang
Apprentice system
ARIZ
Asano Soichiro
Asiatic Petroleum Company
ASIT (Advanced Systematic Inventive Thinking)
Bank of China
Bank of Japan
Baoshenzhi
Bauer Friederich
Bill Smith
boring machine
British-American Tobacco
Brunel, Marc
Canada
China Cotton Mills Owners' Association
Chinese Communist Party
containerization
cordite
Cost Benefit Analysis
CTQ Tree