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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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Frank Whittle

Frank Whittle was a British engineer who patented a turbojet engine in 1930 and helped launch Britain’s first jet aircra...

20TH Century British Aviation Jet Engine

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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Donald Davies

Donald Davies was a British computer scientist who coined packet switching and built the NPL network in the United Kingd...

Internet Networking 20TH Century British

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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Richard Arkwright

Richard Arkwright was an English inventor whose 1769 water frame used water power to spin stronger cotton yarn and helpe...

18TH Century British Textile Factory

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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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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Ada Lovelace

Ada Lovelace was a British mathematician whose 1843 notes on Babbage's Analytical Engine include a pioneering published...

Software Algorithm 19TH Century Computing

8.2 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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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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James Hargreaves

James Hargreaves was an English weaver credited with inventing the spinning jenny in 1764, a multi-spindle machine that...

18TH Century Industrial British Textile

8.2 Great

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Samuel Crompton

Samuel Crompton was an English inventor who created the spinning mule around 1779, combining earlier machines to produce...

18TH Century Industrial British Textile

8.2 Great

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Edmund Cartwright

Edmund Cartwright was an English cleric and inventor who patented a power loom in 1785, an early step toward mechanized...

18TH Century Industrial British Textile

7.9 Good

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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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Alexander Parkes

Alexander Parkes was an English metallurgist who created Parkesine, an early man-made plastic exhibited at the 1862 Inte...

19TH Century Plastic British Materials

7.6 Good