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Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen

Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen was a German physicist and mechanical engineer who discovered X-rays in 1895 while experimenting...

German Physics 19TH Century Medical

9.8 Brilliant

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Wilhelm Röntgen

Wilhelm Röntgen was a German physicist whose accidental discovery of x-rays in 1895 revolutionized science and medicine....

German Physics Medicine 19TH Century

9.6 Brilliant

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Felix Hoffmann

Felix Hoffmann was a German chemist employed by Bayer. He developed and synthesized acetylsalicylic acid in 1897, creati...

German Chemistry Medicine 19TH Century

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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Karl Ferdinand Braun

Karl Ferdinand Braun (1850-1918) was a German physicist whose work contributed to early electronics, radio engineering,...

German Radio 19TH Century Electronics

9.2 Excellent

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Ernst Abbe

Ernst Abbe was a German physicist instrumental in developing modern optics. He collaborated with Carl Zeiss to establish...

German 19TH Century Zeiss Microscopy

9.1 Excellent

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Werner von Siemens

Werner von Siemens, born Ernst Werner Siemens, was a 19th-century German electrical engineer and industrialist who lived...

German 19TH Century Electrical Dynamo

9.1 Excellent

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Ernst Werner von Siemens

Ernst Werner von Siemens was a German electrical engineer, inventor, and industrialist who lived from 1816 to 1892. He c...

German Engineering 19TH Century Dynamo

9.1 Excellent

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Henry Bessemer

Henry Bessemer was a British engineer instrumental in transforming industrial manufacturing. His 1856 Bessemer process d...

19TH Century Steel Industrial British

8.9 Great

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Charles Martin Hall

Charles Martin Hall developed the Hall–Héroult process in 1886, a groundbreaking electrolytic method for producing alumi...

Aluminum 19TH Century Industrial Metallurgy

8.9 Great

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Gottlieb Daimler

Gottlieb Daimler (1834-1900) was a German engineer whose pioneering work fundamentally shaped transportation. He develop...

German Engine 19TH Century Transport

8.6 Great

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Theobald Boehm

Theobald Boehm (1794-1881) was a Bavarian goldsmith and flutist who revolutionized flute design with his Boehm system, i...

Music German 19TH Century Musical Instrument

8.5 Great

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Wilhelm Maybach

Wilhelm Maybach was a pivotal figure in the development of the automobile. His engineering work alongside Gottlieb Daiml...

German Engine 19TH Century Transport

8.3 Great

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James Harrison

James Harrison was a Scottish-born Australian newspaper printer, journalist, and inventor. He is best known for patentin...

Cooling 19TH Century Industrial Scottish Australian

8.3 Great

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Norbert Rillieux

Norbert Rillieux was an American inventor born in Louisiana during the 19th century. He developed a crucial innovation:...

American 19TH Century Evaporation Industrial

8.2 Great

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Karl Drais

Karl Drais was a German forest official and inventor credited with creating the Laufmaschine, the earliest form of the b...

German 19TH Century Transport Bicycle

8.1 Great

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Heinrich Geissler

Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Geissler was a German physicist and skilled glassblower who is best known for inventing the Geis...

German Physics 19TH Century Vacuum Pump

7.9 Good

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Paul Nipkow

Paul Nipkow was a German technician and inventor who developed the Nipkow disk in 1884. This mechanical rotating device...

German Television 19TH Century Broadcasting

7.7 Good

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Jacob Perkins

Jacob Perkins (1766–1849) was an American inventor, engineer, and mechanic from Newburyport, Massachusetts, who later sp...

American Steam 19TH Century Mechanical

7.6 Good

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John Gorrie

John Gorrie was a nineteenth-century American physician and inventor whose medical work in Florida led him to investigat...

American 19TH Century Medical Refrigeration

7.5 Good