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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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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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Gunpei Yokoi

Gunpei Yokoi was a Japanese video game designer and hardware inventor who worked for Nintendo from 1965 to 1996. He crea...

Entertainment Nintendo Video Game Japanese

9.22 Excellent

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J.C.R. Licklider

Joseph Carl Robnett Licklider was an American psychologist and computer scientist who made significant contributions to...

American 20TH Century Computing Arpanet

9.21 Excellent

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Norman Woodland

Norman Joseph Woodland was an American inventor who co-created an early system for identifying products with machine-rea...

American Retail 20TH Century Barcode

9.19 Excellent

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Bob Kahn

Bob Kahn was a pivotal American inventor instrumental in developing the foundations of the internet. His work with Vint...

Internet American Networking 20TH Century

9.15 Excellent

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Momofuku Ando

Momofuku Ando was an entrepreneur and inventor born in Taiwan who became a Japanese citizen and founded Nissin Food Prod...

Food Consumer Japanese 20TH Century

9.14 Excellent

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John William Mauchly

John William Mauchly (1907–1980) was an American physicist who made significant contributions to the early history of el...

American 20TH Century Computing Eniac

9.12 Excellent

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Chuck Hull

Chuck Hull developed stereolithography, a pioneering method for creating three-dimensional objects from liquid resins us...

American Manufacturing 3D Printing 20TH Century

8.72 Great

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Kiichiro Toyoda

Kiichiro Toyoda was a Japanese industrialist instrumental in developing modern automobile manufacturing. His innovations...

Manufacturing Japanese 20TH Century Automobile

8.51 Great

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Ole Kirk Christiansen

Ole Kirk Christiansen was a Danish carpenter who established The LEGO Group in Billund, Denmark, beginning in 1932. Init...

Danish Manufacturing 20TH Century Lego

8.46 Great

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Scott Crump

Scott Crump developed fused deposition modeling (FDM) technology in 1988. This method of additive manufacturing uses hea...

American Manufacturing 3D Printing 20TH Century

8.28 Great

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George de Mestral

George de Mestral was a Swiss electrical engineer who invented the hook-and-loop fastener commonly known by the brand na...

Swiss 20TH Century Fastener Materials

7.73 Good

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Carl Deckard

Carl Deckard was an American engineer and inventor associated with the development of selective laser sintering, an addi...

American Manufacturing 3D Printing 20TH Century

7.52 Good

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Hideo Kodama

Hideo Kodama is a Japanese engineer recognized for his early contributions to the field of rapid prototyping and additiv...

Manufacturing 3D Printing Japanese 20TH Century

7.41 Good

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John T. Parsons

John T. Parsons was an American engineer and inventor whose work helped establish numerical control for machine tools, a...

Automation Manufacturing 20TH Century Machining

7.06 Good

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Whitcomb Judson

Whitcomb L. Judson was an American inventor associated with an early mechanical fastener that anticipated the modern zip...

American Consumer 19TH Century Zipper

6.90 Fair