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Satoshi Nakamoto

Satoshi Nakamoto is the pseudonymous creator of Bitcoin, introduced in a 2008 white paper and launched as software in 20...

Blockchain Cryptography 21ST Century Bitcoin

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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

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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

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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

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Chuck Hull

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American Manufacturing 3D Printing 20TH Century

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Richard Arkwright

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18TH Century British Textile Factory

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Tommy Flowers

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Cryptography 20TH Century Computing British

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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

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Scott Crump

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American Manufacturing 3D Printing 20TH Century

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Ada Lovelace

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Software Algorithm 19TH Century Computing

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Vitalik Buterin

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Blockchain Canadian 21ST Century Ethereum

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Robert Stephenson

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Civil Engineering 19TH Century British Railway

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Joseph Aspdin

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19TH Century Construction British Cement

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James Hargreaves

James Hargreaves was an English weaver credited with inventing the spinning jenny in 1764, a multi-spindle machine that...

18TH Century Industrial British Textile

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Samuel Crompton

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18TH Century Industrial British Textile

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Harry Brearley

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20TH Century Stainless Steel British Materials

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Edmund Cartwright

Edmund Cartwright was an English cleric and inventor who patented a power loom in 1785, an early step toward mechanized...

18TH Century Industrial British Textile

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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

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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

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Alexander Parkes

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19TH Century Plastic British Materials

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