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Topic Availabilty
Article topic availability is on a first-come-first-serve basis. The editors will make final topic assignments and send each author a copy of the Contributor Agreement.
The editors welcome suggestions for additions to the headword list. These suggestions will be handled on a case-by-case basis.
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Headwords V-Z
The editors welcome suggestions for additions to the headword list. These suggestions will be handled on a case-by-case basis.
Available Entries
value analysis
Value engineering
water frame
Yawata Iron Works
Reserved Entries
vacuum tubes
van Marken, Jacob Cornelis
Vanderbilt, Cornelius
Vaughan, Philip
Veblen, Thorsten
Verbruggen, Jan
Vermuyden, Cornelius
Vertical Integration
Vertical Unions
Villard, Henry
Volta, Alassandro
von Kleist, E.G.
von Siemens, Charles William
von Siemens, Werner
Vulcanization
Walker, Fred
Waltham System
Ward, Aaron Montgomery
Washington, George C.
water-based fuels
Watt, James
Webb, Beatrice
Webb, Sydney
Wedgwood, Josiah
Western Electric
Westinghouse, George
Weyerhaeuser, Frederick
Wheatstone, Charles
Whitney, Eli
Whittemore, Amos
Whitworth, Joseph
Wickman, Carl
Wilcox, Stephen
Wilkinson, John
Wilkinson, William
Williams, Alfred
Wilson, Thomas Leopold
Wilson, Woodrow
Witte, Sergei
Wolseley, Frederick York
Women's Industrial Council (Britain)
Woods, Granville T.
work force
workhouses
Works Progress Administration
Wright Brothers
Yasuda Zenjiro
Young Plan
Zaibatsu
Zeppelin, Ferdinand v.
Zhang Jian
Zola, Emile
Zworykin, Vladimir Kosma