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Ada Lovelace

Ada Lovelace is recognized as the first computer programmer for her notes on Charles Babbages Analytical Engine. Her ins...

Software Algorithm Mathematics Computer Science

9.5 Brilliant

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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 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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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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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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Thomas Newcomen

Thomas Newcomen was an English inventor whose 1712 atmospheric steam engine became the first practical engine for pumpin...

18TH Century Mining Industrial English

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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Wilhelm Maybach

Wilhelm Maybach was a German engineer who worked with Gottlieb Daimler and designed early petrol engines and cars, inclu...

German Engine 19TH Century Transport

8.3 Great

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Carl von Linde

Carl von Linde was a German engineer who developed practical refrigeration machines in the 1870s and later advanced air...

German 19TH Century Industrial Refrigeration

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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Robert Stephenson

Robert Stephenson was an English railway engineer whose firm built Rocket, the locomotive that won the 1829 Rainhill Tri...

Civil Engineering 19TH Century British Railway

8.2 Great

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Joseph Aspdin

Joseph Aspdin was an English bricklayer who patented Portland cement in 1824, naming it for its resemblance to Portland...

19TH Century Construction British Cement

8.2 Great

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Granville Woods

Granville Woods was an American inventor with more than 50 patents, notably an 1887 railway telegraph that let moving tr...

American 19TH Century Electric Railway

8.1 Great

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Andrew Jackson Beard

Andrew Jackson Beard was an American inventor who patented automatic railroad-car coupler improvements in 1897 after los...

Safety American 19TH Century Railway

7.2 Good