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Wright brothers

Orville and Wilbur Wright were American inventors whose work established a practical foundation for powered aviation. Th...

American 20TH Century Aviation Airplane

9.61 Brilliant

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Bob Noyce

Robert Noyce (1927–1990) was an American physicist, inventor, and businessman nicknamed 'the Mayor of Silicon Valley.' H...

American Silicon Valley 20TH Century Microchip

9.46 Excellent

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Charles K. Kao

Charles K. Kao was an engineer and physicist whose research established the practical basis for transmitting information...

Optics 20TH Century Fiber Optics Communications

9.42 Excellent

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George Méliès

Georges Méliès was a French illusionist, filmmaker, and theatre owner who applied stage magic techniques to early cinema...

French 19TH Century Cinema Imaging

9.38 Excellent

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Nicéphore Niépce

Nicéphore Niépce (1765-1833) was a French inventor credited with creating the world's first permanent photographic image...

French Photography 19TH Century Imaging

9.28 Excellent

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Charles Hard Townes

Charles Hard Townes was an American physicist whose work fundamentally advanced the field of quantum electronics. He is...

Modern American Optics Laser

9.26 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

9.24 Excellent

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Ernst Ruska

Ernst Ruska was a German physicist who designed and built the first electron microscope in 1931 while working at the Tec...

German Optics Scientific Mid 20TH

9.24 Excellent

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James Chadwick

James Chadwick was a British physicist who fundamentally advanced the field of nuclear physics by discovering the neutro...

Science 20TH Century British Nuclear Physics

9.24 Excellent

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Arthur Leonard Schawlow

Arthur Leonard Schawlow was an American physicist who worked with Charles Townes on extending maser principles to optica...

American Optics 20TH Century Laser

9.08 Excellent

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Narinder Singh Kapany

Narinder Singh Kapany was an Indian-American physicist whose research helped establish the principles and practical uses...

Optics 20TH Century Indian American Fiber Optics

8.69 Great

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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

8.51 Great

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C. Kumar N. Patel

Chandra Kumar Naranbhai Patel is an Indian-American electrical engineer and physicist who invented the carbon dioxide la...

Optics 20TH Century Indian American CO2 Laser

8.42 Great

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Edwin H. Land

Edwin H. Land developed the Polaroid camera system, revolutionizing photography with its immediate image output. His inn...

Camera Photography 20TH Century Imaging

8.20 Great

15

Gordon Gould

Gordon Gould was an American physicist instrumental in developing foundational concepts for lasers. His detailed 1957 do...

Physics American Optics 20TH Century

8.10 Great

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Charles Francis Jenkins

Charles Francis Jenkins was an American inventor who worked on motion-picture projection and mechanical television. He d...

Television American 20TH Century Imaging

7.94 Good

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Katherine Burr Blodgett

Katherine Burr Blodgett (1898-1979) was an American physicist and inventor who worked at General Electric Research Labor...

American Optics Glass 20TH Century

7.28 Good

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Harold Edgerton

Harold Edgerton was an American electrical engineer and photographer who spent his academic career at the Massachusetts...

Photography 20TH Century Imaging Strobe

7.23 Good

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Valerie Thomas

Valerie Thomas is an American scientist and inventor who had a prominent career at NASA. She is best known for patenting...

American 20TH Century Imaging Nasa

7.10 Good

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James Hillier

James Hillier was a Canadian-born physicist and electrical engineer who became a United States citizen and spent much of...

Science 20TH Century Imaging Instrumentation

7.02 Good