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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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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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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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Gertrude B. Elion

Gertrude B. Elion was an American pharmacologist who co-developed drugs such as 6-mercaptopurine and shared the 1988 Nob...

American 20TH Century Medical Drugs

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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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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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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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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Gottlieb Daimler

Gottlieb Daimler was a German engineer who helped create a high-speed petrol engine in 1885, a key step toward modern mo...

German Engine 19TH Century Transport

8.6 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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Ernst Boris Chain

Ernst Boris Chain was a German-born British biochemist who helped isolate and concentrate penicillin and shared the 1945...

20TH Century Medical Antibiotic German British

8.5 Great

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Rene Laennec

Rene Laennec was a French physician who invented the stethoscope in Paris in 1816, creating a wooden tube for mediate au...

French 19TH Century Medical Diagnostics

8.5 Great

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William T. G. Morton

William T. G. Morton was an American dentist who publicly demonstrated ether anesthesia at Massachusetts General Hospita...

American 19TH Century Medical Anesthesia

8.1 Great

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John Boyd Dunlop

John Boyd Dunlop was a Scottish-born inventor in Ireland who patented a practical pneumatic bicycle tire in 1888, improv...

19TH Century Transport Scottish Tire

8.0 Great

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Crawford Long

Crawford Long was an American physician who used ether anesthesia in Georgia in 1842 for surgery, years before ether's p...

American 19TH Century Medical Anesthesia

7.8 Good

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Robert William Thomson

Robert William Thomson was a Scottish inventor who patented an early pneumatic tire in 1845, decades before rubber techn...

19TH Century Pneumatic Transport Scottish

7.5 Good

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John Gorrie

John Gorrie was an American physician who patented an ice-making machine in 1851, an important step toward mechanical re...

American 19TH Century Medical Refrigeration

7.5 Good

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Charles Pravaz

Charles Pravaz was a French surgeon who developed an early hypodermic syringe in 1853, adapting a hollow needle for cont...

French 19TH Century Medical Syringe

7.3 Good

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Letitia Geer

Letitia Geer was an American nurse and inventor who patented a one-handed medical syringe in 1899, a step toward easier...

American 19TH Century Healthcare Medical

6.8 Fair

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Kirkpatrick Macmillan

Kirkpatrick Macmillan was a Scottish blacksmith often linked to an early pedal-driven bicycle design in the 1830s, thoug...

19TH Century Pedal Transport Scottish

6.8 Fair