swap_horiz Alexander Graham Bell Alternatives

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Ada Lovelace

Ada Lovelace is recognized as the first computer programmer for her notes on Charles Babbages Analytical Engine. Her ins...

Software Algorithm Mathematics Computer Science

9.5 Brilliant

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Herman Hollerith

Herman Hollerith was an American inventor whose innovations dramatically improved data processing. He developed a punch-...

American 19TH Century Computing Punch Card Tabulator

9.3 Excellent

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Carl Zeiss

Carl Zeiss was a German optician whose workshop established in Jena in 1846 fundamentally shaped the field of optics. He...

German 19TH Century Lenses Microscopy

9.3 Excellent

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Auguste Lumière

Auguste Lumière was a French inventor instrumental in the development of early cinema. He collaborated with his brother...

French Photography 19TH Century Film

9.3 Excellent

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Emil Berliner

Emil Berliner was a German-American inventor credited with developing the first practical method of recording sound onto...

Audio 19TH Century Gramophone German American

9.2 Excellent

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Emile Berliner

Emile Berliner was a German-American inventor who revolutionized audio technology. His 1887 patent for the lateral-cut g...

Audio 19TH Century Telecommunications German American

9.2 Excellent

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Ernst Abbe

German physicist who partnered with Carl Zeiss in Jena, formulating the Abbe sine condition in 1873 and establishing the...

German 19TH Century Zeiss Microscopy

9.1 Excellent

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Hiram Stevens Maxim

American-British inventor who created the Maxim gun in 1884, the first fully automatic recoil-operated machine gun, tran...

19TH Century Electrical American British Automatic Gun

9.1 Excellent

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William Dickson

Scottish-born inventor William Dickson worked in Thomas Edison's laboratory and developed the Kinetoscope, an early moti...

19TH Century Film British American Kinetoscope

9.1 Excellent

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John Browning

American firearms designer whose prolific output included the M1911 pistol and the Browning Automatic Rifle, making him...

American 19TH Century Mechanical Firearms

9.0 Excellent

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Sakichi Toyoda

Japanese inventor and industrialist who created the automatic power loom in the late 19th century and founded what becam...

19TH Century Japanese Textile Automatic Loom

9.0 Excellent

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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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Chester Rice

American engineer Chester Rice co-invented the moving-coil dynamic loudspeaker with Edward Kellogg at General Electric i...

Audio American 20TH Century General Electric

8.9 Great

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Edward Kellogg

American engineer Edward Kellogg co-invented the moving-coil dynamic loudspeaker with Chester Rice at General Electric i...

Audio American 20TH Century General Electric

8.9 Great

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John Dunlop

Scottish veterinarian who reinvented the pneumatic rubber tire in 1888 to improve his son's tricycle ride, launching the...

19TH Century Rubber Transportation Scottish

8.8 Great

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Reginald Fessenden

Canadian-American inventor who made the first audio radio broadcast on Christmas Eve 1906, transmitting voice and music...

Wireless Audio Canadian 19TH Century

8.8 Great

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John Philip Holland

Irish-American engineer who designed the USS Holland, commissioned in 1900 as the first submarine purchased by the U.S....

19TH Century Naval Propulsion Irish American

8.8 Great

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Samuel Morse

Samuel Morse was an American painter and inventor who co-developed Morse code and sent a public telegraph message from W...

Communication American 19TH Century Code

8.7 Great

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Elisha Gray

Elisha Gray was an American inventor and Western Electric co-founder who filed a telephone caveat on February 14, 1876,...

Communication American 19TH Century Telephone

7.8 Good

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Antonio Meucci

Antonio Meucci was an Italian inventor who developed early voice communication devices and filed an 1871 caveat for a te...

Audio Communication Italian 19TH Century

7.7 Good