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Wright brothers

Orville and Wilbur Wright were American inventors credited with inventing, building, and flying the world’s first succes...

American 20TH Century Aviation Airplane

9.6 Brilliant

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Andrew Fire

Andrew Fire is an American biologist renowned for his pioneering work on RNA interference. His collaboration with Craig...

American Medicine 20TH Century Genetics

9.4 Excellent

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Vannevar Bush

Vannevar Bush was an American engineer whose work profoundly influenced computing. He led scientific research efforts du...

American 20TH Century Computing Memex Concept

9.4 Excellent

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Edwin Land

Edwin Land was an American inventor pivotal to the development of modern photography. His creation, the Polaroid Land ca...

American Optics 20TH Century Polaroid

9.3 Excellent

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Leroy Hood

Leroy Hood was an American biologist whose invention of the automated DNA sequencer revolutionized biotechnology. His wo...

American 20TH Century Biotechnology Genomics

9.3 Excellent

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Seymour Cray

Seymour Cray was an American electrical engineer whose innovative designs revolutionized computer hardware. He created t...

Hardware American 20TH Century Computing

9.3 Excellent

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Bob Metcalfe

Bob Metcalfe was an American engineer instrumental in the development of Ethernet networking technology. His work at Xer...

American Ethernet Networking 20TH Century

9.3 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 inventor best known for revolutionizing automobile manufacturing. His development of the movi...

American Manufacturing 20TH Century Automobile

9.2 Excellent

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Jay Forrester

Jay Forrester was an American engineer who developed coincident-current magnetic core memory during his time at MIT in 1...

Hardware American 20TH Century Computing

9.2 Excellent

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Charles F. Kettering

American inventor who developed the electric automobile self-starter in 1912, replacing the dangerous hand crank and ena...

American 20TH Century Automobile Gm

9.2 Excellent

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James L. Fergason

American inventor who developed practical twisted nematic liquid crystal display technology in the 1960s and held over 1...

American 20TH Century LCD Display Materials

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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Nolan Bushnell

American entrepreneur who co-founded Atari in 1972 and launched the arcade game Pong, helping establish the commercial v...

American Consumer 20TH Century Atari

9.1 Excellent

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Charles Hull

American engineer who invented stereolithography 3D printing technology and co-founded 3D Systems Corporation in 1986, e...

American 3D Printing 20TH Century Stereolithography

9.1 Excellent

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George H. Heilmeier

American electrical engineer who invented the first working liquid crystal display at RCA Laboratories in 1964, foundati...

American 20TH Century RCA LCD Display

9.1 Excellent

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Chester Carlson

American inventor who developed xerography in 1938, creating the core technology behind photocopiers and laser printers...

American 20TH Century Office Printing

9.0 Excellent

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Chester F. Carlson

American inventor who discovered the xerographic copying process in 1938, ultimately leading to the Xerox photocopier an...

American 20TH Century Office Photocopier

9.0 Excellent

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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