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Johannes Gutenberg

Johannes Gutenberg developed a printing press utilizing movable type in the mid-15th century. This innovation dramatical...

German Press Printing 15TH Century

9.7 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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Gerhard Domagk

Gerhard Domagk was a German pathologist who pioneered the use of sulfonamide drugs for treating bacterial infections. Hi...

German Chemistry Medicine 20TH Century

9.4 Excellent

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Peter Grünberg

Peter Grünberg was a German physicist who revolutionized data storage technology. His independent 1988 discovery of gian...

German Physics 20TH Century Data Storage

9.4 Excellent

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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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Alexander Graham Bell

Alexander Graham Bell was a Scottish-American inventor renowned for his development of the first practical telephone. Hi...

Audio Communication 19TH Century Telephone

9.2 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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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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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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Wilhelm Maybach

Wilhelm Maybach was a German engineer who worked with Gottlieb Daimler and designed early petrol engines and cars, inclu...

German Engine 19TH Century Transport

8.3 Great

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Norbert Rillieux

Norbert Rillieux was a Louisiana Creole engineer who built the first industrially practical multiple-effect evaporator f...

American 19TH Century Evaporation Industrial

8.2 Great

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Jacob Perkins

Jacob Perkins was an American inventor who received an 1834 British patent for a vapor-compression refrigeration system...

American Steam 19TH Century Mechanical

7.6 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