swap_horiz Bartolomeo Cristofori Alternatives

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Johannes Gutenberg

Johannes Gutenberg was a German printer whose movable-type press produced the Gutenberg Bible about 1455 and transformed...

German Press Printing 15TH Century

9.7 Brilliant

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Wright brothers

The Wright brothers were American aviation pioneers whose Flyer made controlled powered flights at Kitty Hawk, North Car...

American 20TH Century Aviation Airplane

9.6 Brilliant

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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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Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Franklin was an American polymath whose lightning experiments in the 1750s advanced electrical science and popu...

18TH Century American Electricity Lightning

9.3 Excellent

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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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Bob Kahn

Bob Kahn is an American engineer who, with Vint Cerf, designed TCP/IP, the core protocol suite adopted by ARPANET in 198...

Internet American Networking 20TH Century

9.2 Excellent

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Henry Ford

Henry Ford was an American industrialist whose Model T, introduced in 1908, and moving assembly line made automobiles af...

American Manufacturing 20TH Century Automobile

9.2 Excellent

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Les Paul

Les Paul was an American guitarist and inventor whose solid-body guitar work led to the 1952 Gibson Les Paul and advance...

Music American Recording Guitar

8.9 Great

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Leo Fender

Leo Fender was an American instrument maker whose company introduced the Telecaster in 1950 and the Stratocaster in 1954...

Music American Guitar 20TH Century

8.8 Great

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Robert Moog

Robert Moog was an American engineer whose 1964 Moog synthesizer made voltage-controlled electronic instruments practica...

Music American 20TH Century Synthesizer

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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Adolphe Sax

Adolphe Sax was a Belgian instrument maker in Paris who patented the saxophone in 1846, creating a reed instrument later...

Music 19TH Century Instrument Belgian

8.4 Great

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Thomas Newcomen

Thomas Newcomen was an English inventor whose 1712 atmospheric steam engine became the first practical engine for pumpin...

18TH Century Mining Industrial English

8.4 Great

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Eli Whitney

Eli Whitney was an American inventor whose 1793 cotton gin made short-staple cotton processing faster and reshaped the U...

18TH Century American Manufacturing Interchangeable

8.3 Great

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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

8.2 Great

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Samuel Crompton

Samuel Crompton was an English inventor who created the spinning mule around 1779, combining earlier machines to produce...

18TH Century Industrial British Textile

8.2 Great

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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

7.9 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

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David Bushnell

David Bushnell was an American inventor who built Turtle, a hand-powered submarine used in a failed attack on a British...

Military 18TH Century American Submarine

7.3 Good

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Robert F. Flemming Jr.

Robert F. Flemming Jr. was an American inventor and guitar maker who patented the Euphonica, a louder guitar-like instru...

Music American 19TH Century Guitar

6.1 Fair