swap_horiz Ada Lovelace Alternatives

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Alexander Graham Bell

Alexander Graham Bell was a Scottish-born inventor whose 1876 U.S. telephone patent helped launch practical voice commun...

Audio Communication 19TH Century Telephone

9.2 Excellent

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Douglas Engelbart

Douglas Engelbart was an American computer engineer whose 1968 demo introduced the mouse, hypertext, windows, and collab...

American GUI 20TH Century Computing

9.1 Excellent

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Ivan Sutherland

Ivan Sutherland is an American computer scientist whose 1963 Sketchpad system pioneered interactive graphics and compute...

American Graphics 20TH Century Computing

9.0 Excellent

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Alan Kay

Alan Kay is an American computer scientist who shaped object oriented programming and led the Dynabook concept at Xerox...

American 20TH Century Computing Oop

8.9 Great

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Frank Whittle

Frank Whittle was a British engineer who patented a turbojet engine in 1930 and helped launch Britain’s first jet aircra...

20TH Century British Aviation Jet Engine

8.9 Great

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Henry Bessemer

Henry Bessemer was an English engineer whose 1856 Bessemer process made large-scale, low-cost steel production possible...

19TH Century Steel Industrial British

8.9 Great

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Federico Faggin

Federico Faggin is an Italian-American engineer who led the Intel 4004 design in 1970-1971 and created key silicon-gate...

20TH Century Computing Italian American Microprocessor

8.8 Great

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George Westinghouse

George Westinghouse was an American inventor and industrialist who promoted alternating-current power systems in the Uni...

American 19TH Century Electric Railway

8.7 Great

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Marcian Hoff

Marcian Hoff is an American engineer who proposed the Intel 4004's general-purpose CPU architecture in 1969, helping lau...

American Intel 20TH Century Computing

8.7 Great

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Donald Davies

Donald Davies was a British computer scientist who coined packet switching and built the NPL network in the United Kingd...

Internet Networking 20TH Century British

8.7 Great

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Alfred Nobel

Alfred Nobel was a Swedish chemist and inventor who patented dynamite in 1867 and left his fortune to establish the Nobe...

Chemistry 19TH Century Swedish Dynamite

8.7 Great

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Richard Arkwright

Richard Arkwright was an English inventor whose 1769 water frame used water power to spin stronger cotton yarn and helpe...

18TH Century British Textile Factory

8.7 Great

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Joseph Marie Jacquard

Joseph Marie Jacquard was a French weaver whose 1801 Jacquard loom used punched cards to automate complex textile patter...

French 19TH Century Textile Loom

8.7 Great

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Tommy Flowers

Tommy Flowers was an English engineer who designed Colossus, the programmable electronic computer used at Bletchley Park...

Cryptography 20TH Century Computing British

8.5 Great

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Richard Trevithick

Richard Trevithick was a Cornish engineer who built high-pressure steam engines and ran an early steam locomotive in Wal...

Engine 19TH Century British Transport

8.5 Great

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Robert Stephenson

Robert Stephenson was an English railway engineer whose firm built Rocket, the locomotive that won the 1829 Rainhill Tri...

Civil Engineering 19TH Century British Railway

8.2 Great

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Joseph Aspdin

Joseph Aspdin was an English bricklayer who patented Portland cement in 1824, naming it for its resemblance to Portland...

19TH Century Construction British Cement

8.2 Great

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Joseph Swan

Joseph Swan was a British physicist and inventor who demonstrated a practical incandescent electric lamp in England befo...

Light 19TH Century Electric British

7.8 Good

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Sir Clive Sinclair

Sir Clive Sinclair was a British inventor whose Sinclair ZX Spectrum, released in 1982, made home computing affordable i...

20TH Century Computing British Consumer Tech

7.8 Good

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Alexander Parkes

Alexander Parkes was an English metallurgist who created Parkesine, an early man-made plastic exhibited at the 1862 Inte...

19TH Century Plastic British Materials

7.6 Good