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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

3

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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Sergey Brin

Sergey Brin is an American computer scientist who co-founded Google in 1998 after developing its search technology at St...

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

16

Frederick McKinley Jones

Frederick McKinley Jones was an American inventor who co-founded Thermo King and developed portable truck refrigeration...

American 20TH Century Refrigeration Transport

8.3 Great

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Wilson Greatbatch

Wilson Greatbatch was an American engineer whose implantable pacemaker entered human use in 1960 and helped make long-te...

American Medical Device 20TH Century Cardiac

8.3 Great

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Forrest Bird

Forrest Bird was an American aviator and biomedical inventor whose Bird Mark 7 respirator, released in 1957, became a wi...

American Medical Device 20TH Century Respiratory

7.9 Good

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Ransom E. Olds

Ransom E. Olds was an American automaker whose Curved Dash Oldsmobile, produced from 1901, became one of the first mass-...

American 20TH Century Transport Automobile

7.8 Good

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Preston Tucker

Preston Tucker was an American automaker who developed the 1948 Tucker 48, noted for safety ideas such as a padded dashb...

Safety American 20TH Century Transport

6.9 Fair