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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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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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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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Samuel Morse

Samuel Morse was an American painter and inventor who co-developed Morse code and sent a public telegraph message from W...

Communication American 19TH Century Code

8.7 Great

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George Westinghouse

George Westinghouse was an American inventor and industrialist who promoted alternating-current power systems in the Uni...

American 19TH Century Electric Railway

8.7 Great

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Chuck Hull

Chuck Hull is an American engineer who invented stereolithography in 1983, a foundational 3D printing process, and found...

American Manufacturing 3D Printing 20TH Century

8.7 Great

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Alfred Nobel

Alfred Nobel was a Swedish chemist and inventor who patented dynamite in 1867 and left his fortune to establish the Nobe...

Chemistry 19TH Century Swedish Dynamite

8.7 Great

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Joseph Marie Jacquard

Joseph Marie Jacquard was a French weaver whose 1801 Jacquard loom used punched cards to automate complex textile patter...

French 19TH Century Textile Loom

8.7 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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Richard Trevithick

Richard Trevithick was a Cornish engineer who built high-pressure steam engines and ran an early steam locomotive in Wal...

Engine 19TH Century British Transport

8.5 Great

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Rene Laennec

Rene Laennec was a French physician who invented the stethoscope in Paris in 1816, creating a wooden tube for mediate au...

French 19TH Century Medical Diagnostics

8.5 Great

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Brian Kernighan

Brian Kernighan is a Canadian computer scientist who coauthored The C Programming Language in 1978 and helped create Uni...

Software Canadian Programming Unix

8.4 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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Hiram Maxim

Hiram Maxim was an American-born British inventor who created the Maxim gun in the 1880s, the first fully automatic reco...

Engineering 19TH Century Firearms American British

8.4 Great

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Scott Crump

Scott Crump is an American inventor who created fused deposition modeling in 1988 and co-founded Stratasys to commercial...

American Manufacturing 3D Printing 20TH Century

8.3 Great

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Cyrus McCormick

Cyrus McCormick was an American inventor and manufacturer associated with the mechanical reaper, patented in 1834, which...

American 19TH Century Agriculture Machine

8.3 Great

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Samuel Colt

Samuel Colt was an American inventor who patented a practical revolving firearm in 1836 and built Colt's Patent Fire-Arm...

American Manufacturing 19TH Century Firearms

8.2 Great

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Isaac Singer

Isaac Singer was an American inventor who improved and commercialized the sewing machine, receiving a key U.S. patent in...

American Manufacturing 19TH Century Home

8.1 Great

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Jan Ernst Matzeliger

Jan Ernst Matzeliger was a Surinamese-American inventor whose 1883 lasting machine mechanized pulling shoe uppers over l...

Shoe Manufacturing 19TH Century Lasting Machine

8.0 Great

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Margaret E. Knight

Margaret E. Knight was an American inventor whose 1871 patent covered a machine for making flat-bottomed paper bags at i...

American Manufacturing 19TH Century Machine

7.3 Good