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Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen

Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen was a German physicist and mechanical engineer who discovered X-rays in 1895 while experimenting...

German Physics 19TH Century Medical

9.78 Brilliant

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George Boole

George Boole was a 19th-century English mathematician and logician whose work formalized the algebra of logic. His 1854...

Mathematics 19TH Century Computing British

9.64 Brilliant

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Lord Kelvin (William Thomson)

William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin (1824–1907), was a British mathematical physicist and engineer. He played a central ro...

Physics Theory 19TH Century British

9.54 Brilliant

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William Thomson (Lord Kelvin)

William Thomson, later titled 1st Baron Kelvin, helped establish the mathematical foundations of classical thermodynamic...

Physics 19TH Century Thermodynamics Irish Scottish

9.48 Excellent

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Nicolas Carnot

Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot (1796–1832) was a French physicist and military engineer whose 1824 treatise Réflexions sur...

French Physics 19TH Century Energy

9.48 Excellent

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Charles Parsons

Charles Algernon Parsons was an Anglo-Irish engineer and inventor best known for developing the reaction steam turbine....

Engineering 19TH Century Mechanical British

9.47 Excellent

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Thomas Young

Thomas Young (1773–1829) was a British polymath whose contributions spanned physics, physiology, linguistics, and medici...

Physics Theory 19TH Century British

9.39 Excellent

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Lord Kelvin

Lord Kelvin, born William Thomson, was a prominent Irish-Scottish mathematical physicist and engineer who worked in the...

Physics 19TH Century British Thermodynamics

9.38 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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Lumière brothers

Auguste and Louis Lumière were French inventors and filmmaking pioneers who patented the Cinématographe, a device that f...

French 19TH Century Film Projection

9.36 Excellent

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J.J. Thomson

Sir Joseph John Thomson (1856–1940) was a British physicist who served as the head of the Cavendish Laboratory at the Un...

Physics 19TH Century British Electron Discovery

9.34 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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Alexander Graham Bell

Alexander Graham Bell was a Scottish-American inventor renowned for his development of the first practical telephone. Hi...

Audio Communication 19TH Century Telephone

9.18 Excellent

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Karl Ferdinand Braun

Karl Ferdinand Braun (1850-1918) was a German physicist whose work contributed to early electronics, radio engineering,...

German Radio 19TH Century Electronics

9.16 Excellent

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Werner von Siemens

Werner von Siemens, born Ernst Werner Siemens, was a 19th-century German electrical engineer and industrialist who lived...

German 19TH Century Electrical Dynamo

9.12 Excellent

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Ernst Werner von Siemens

Ernst Werner von Siemens was a German electrical engineer, inventor, and industrialist who lived from 1816 to 1892. He c...

German Engineering 19TH Century Dynamo

9.12 Excellent

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Léon Foucault

Léon Foucault was a French physicist renowned for his experimental contributions to the measurement of the speed of ligh...

French Physics 19TH Century Gyroscope

9.05 Excellent

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Valdemar Poulsen

Valdemar Poulsen (1869–1942) was a Danish engineer who made significant contributions to early audio recording and radio...

Audio Danish 19TH Century Communications

8.58 Great

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Reginald Fessenden

Reginald Fessenden was a Canadian-American inventor recognized for pioneering wireless audio communication. He achieved...

Wireless Audio Canadian 19TH Century

8.10 Great

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Antonio Meucci

Antonio Meucci was an Italian-American inventor best recognized for his early developments in voice communication techno...

Audio Communication Italian 19TH Century

7.65 Good