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The preface discusses the decisions made with respect to the selection of names, including acknowledging that the name index of the above-mentioned encyclopedia was a starting point for this selection. Biographical Dictionary was compiled with a conscious effort to avoid duplicating dictionaries of scientists such as the multivolume Dictionary of Scientific Biography. The preface further states that most of the biographees are "male, white, European (including North American)." Fewer than one-fourth of the engineers and inventors with biographies in The African American Almanac (6th ed., Gale, 1994) are in this work, and fewer than a dozen women are included.
The signed entries follow a standard sequence: dates and places of birth and death, the subject's nationality and a brief statement of his or her principal achievements, a biography of 250^-500 words, honors and distinctions, a bibliography of the individual's publications, and selected references to literature where further information can be found. Names printed in boldface type in the text indicate cross-references. There are numerous see and see also references as well. The dictionary concludes with three indexes: by subject, name, and broad topic.
The Biographical Dictionary of the History of Technology will provide academic and public libraries with much useful information.
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