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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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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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Douglas Engelbart

Douglas Engelbart was an American computer engineer whose 1968 demo introduced the mouse, hypertext, windows, and collab...

American GUI 20TH Century Computing

9.1 Excellent

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Robert H. Goddard

Robert H. Goddard was an American physicist who launched the first liquid-fueled rocket in Massachusetts in 1926, a foun...

American Space 20TH Century Liquid Fuel

9.1 Excellent

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Ivan Sutherland

Ivan Sutherland is an American computer scientist whose 1963 Sketchpad system pioneered interactive graphics and compute...

American Graphics 20TH Century Computing

9.0 Excellent

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Alan Kay

Alan Kay is an American computer scientist who shaped object oriented programming and led the Dynabook concept at Xerox...

American 20TH Century Computing Oop

8.9 Great

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Steve Wozniak

Steve Wozniak is an American engineer who co-founded Apple and designed the Apple I in 1976 and Apple II in 1977.

Apple Hardware American 20TH Century

8.9 Great

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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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Paul Baran

Paul Baran was an American engineer whose 1960s RAND work described distributed networks and packet switching for surviv...

Internet American Networking 20TH Century

8.8 Great

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Larry Page

Larry Page is an American computer scientist who co-founded Google in 1998 and developed the PageRank search ranking met...

Google American Search 20TH Century

8.8 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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John Moses Browning

John Moses Browning was an American firearms designer whose work included the M1911 pistol and Browning Automatic Rifle,...

American 20TH Century Firearms Machine Gun

8.8 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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King C. Gillette

King C. Gillette was an American businessman who patented a safety razor using disposable thin blades in 1904, shaping m...

American Consumer 20TH Century Razor

7.8 Good

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Ruth Handler

Ruth Handler was an American businesswoman who co-founded Mattel and introduced the Barbie doll in 1959 after studying E...

American Consumer 20TH Century Toy

7.6 Good

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Jacob Schick

Jacob Schick was an American inventor and U.S. Army officer who patented an electric dry shaver in the 1920s and founded...

American Consumer 20TH Century Shaving

7.4 Good

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Marion Donovan

Marion Donovan was an American inventor who patented a waterproof diaper cover in 1951, helping inspire the later dispos...

American Consumer 20TH Century Parenting

7.3 Good

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Madam C. J. Walker

Madam C. J. Walker was an American entrepreneur who founded a hair-care company in 1910 and is recorded as the first U.S...

American Consumer 20TH Century Haircare

7.3 Good

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Beulah Louise Henry

Beulah Louise Henry was an American inventor nicknamed Lady Edison, holding dozens of patents for devices such as a 1924...

American Consumer 20TH Century Umbrella

7.2 Good