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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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Joseph Nicéphore Niépce

Joseph Nicéphore Niépce was a French inventor widely credited as a foundational pioneer in the field of photography. In...

18TH Century French Photography Heliography

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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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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Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre

Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre was a French artist, printmaker, and inventor who played a foundational role in the history...

French Photography 19TH Century Imaging

8.86 Great

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Dennis Gabor

Dennis Gabor was a Hungarian-British electrical engineer and physicist who is best known for his invention of holography...

Optics 20TH Century Imaging Holography

8.86 Great

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Henry Fox Talbot

William Henry Fox Talbot (1800–1877) was a British scientist, mathematician, and classical scholar who invented the calo...

Photography 19TH Century Imaging British

8.72 Great

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Louis Le Prince

Louis Le Prince was a French artist and inventor who worked on photographic motion-picture devices in the nineteenth cen...

Camera French 19TH Century Imaging

8.56 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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Louis Daguerre

Louis Daguerre was a French artist and inventor credited with developing the daguerreotype, an early form of photography...

French Photography 19TH Century Imaging

8.14 Great

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Nicephore Niepce

Nicéphore Niépce was a French inventor who made pioneering contributions to the field of photography in the early 19th c...

Camera French Photography 19TH Century

7.98 Good

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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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Marie Van Brittan Brown

Marie Van Brittan Brown was an American inventor from Queens, New York, who, alongside her husband Albert Brown, designe...

Camera Security American 20TH Century

7.45 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