swap_horiz Cornelis Drebbel 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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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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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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Bartolomeo Cristofori

Bartolomeo Cristofori was an Italian keyboard maker credited with inventing the piano around 1700, allowing players to v...

Music 18TH Century Italian Instrument

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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Sergei Korolev

Sergei Korolev was a Soviet rocket engineer who led the program that launched Sputnik 1 in 1957 and Yuri Gagarin into or...

Aerospace Space 20TH Century Soviet

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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Satoshi Nakamoto

Satoshi Nakamoto is the pseudonymous creator of Bitcoin, introduced in a 2008 white paper and launched as software in 20...

Blockchain Cryptography 21ST Century Bitcoin

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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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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Robert Fulton

Robert Fulton was an American engineer whose steamboat Clermont began commercially successful service on the Hudson Rive...

American Submarine 19TH Century Transport

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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Katherine Burr Blodgett

Katherine Burr Blodgett was an American physicist at General Electric who patented nonreflective glass in 1938 using mon...

American Optics Glass 20TH Century

7.3 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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Josephine Cochrane

Josephine Cochrane was an American inventor who patented a mechanical dishwasher in 1886 and founded a company later lin...

American 19TH Century Mechanical Home Appliance

7.1 Good