swap_horiz George Westinghouse Alternatives

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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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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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Norbert Rillieux

Norbert Rillieux was a Louisiana Creole engineer who built the first industrially practical multiple-effect evaporator f...

American 19TH Century Evaporation Industrial

8.2 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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Robert Fulton

Robert Fulton was an American engineer whose steamboat Clermont began commercially successful service on the Hudson Rive...

American Submarine 19TH Century Transport

8.2 Great

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Samuel Colt

Samuel Colt was an American inventor who patented a practical revolving firearm in 1836 and built Colt's Patent Fire-Arm...

American Manufacturing 19TH Century Firearms

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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Lewis Howard Latimer

Lewis Howard Latimer was an American draftsman and inventor whose 1882 carbon-filament process improved incandescent lam...

American Light 19TH Century Electric

8.1 Great

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Isaac Singer

Isaac Singer was an American inventor who improved and commercialized the sewing machine, receiving a key U.S. patent in...

American Manufacturing 19TH Century Home

8.1 Great

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Elias Howe

Elias Howe was an American inventor who patented a lockstitch sewing machine in 1846, a major step in mechanized garment...

American 19TH Century Home Sewing Machine

8.1 Great

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William T. G. Morton

William T. G. Morton was an American dentist who publicly demonstrated ether anesthesia at Massachusetts General Hospita...

American 19TH Century Medical Anesthesia

8.1 Great

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Elijah McCoy

Elijah McCoy was a Canadian-born American engineer whose 1872 automatic lubricator let steam engines oil themselves whil...

19TH Century Railway Steam Engine Lubrication

8.0 Great

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Joseph Swan

Joseph Swan was a British physicist and inventor who demonstrated a practical incandescent electric lamp in England befo...

Light 19TH Century Electric British

7.8 Good

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Elisha Gray

Elisha Gray was an American inventor and Western Electric co-founder who filed a telephone caveat on February 14, 1876,...

Communication American 19TH Century Telephone

7.8 Good

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Crawford Long

Crawford Long was an American physician who used ether anesthesia in Georgia in 1842 for surgery, years before ether's p...

American 19TH Century Medical Anesthesia

7.8 Good

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John Wesley Hyatt

John Wesley Hyatt was an American inventor who patented celluloid in 1869, creating a commercially important early plast...

American 19TH Century Plastic Materials

7.7 Good

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Jacob Perkins

Jacob Perkins was an American inventor who received an 1834 British patent for a vapor-compression refrigeration system...

American Steam 19TH Century Mechanical

7.6 Good

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John Gorrie

John Gorrie was an American physician who patented an ice-making machine in 1851, an important step toward mechanical re...

American 19TH Century Medical Refrigeration

7.5 Good

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Margaret E. Knight

Margaret E. Knight was an American inventor whose 1871 patent covered a machine for making flat-bottomed paper bags at i...

American Manufacturing 19TH Century Machine

7.3 Good

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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