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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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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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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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Dan Bricklin

Dan Bricklin is an American computer programmer and entrepreneur who co-created VisiCalc with Bob Frankston. VisiCalc wa...

Software American Spreadsheet 20TH Century

9.11 Excellent

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Douglas Engelbart

Douglas Engelbart was a pioneering American computer scientist instrumental in shaping modern computing. His 1968 presen...

American GUI 20TH Century Computing

9.10 Excellent

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Chuck Peddle

Charles Ingerham 'Chuck' Peddle (1937–2019) was an American electrical engineer best known for leading the team at MOS T...

American 20TH Century Computing Microprocessor

9.08 Excellent

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Arthur Leonard Schawlow

Arthur Leonard Schawlow was an American physicist who worked with Charles Townes on extending maser principles to optica...

American Optics 20TH Century Laser

9.08 Excellent

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Robert H. Goddard

Robert H. Goddard was an American physicist whose pioneering work fundamentally shaped space exploration. He developed a...

American Space 20TH Century Liquid Fuel

9.05 Excellent

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Ivan Sutherland

Ivan Sutherland was a pioneering American computer scientist instrumental in developing interactive computing. His 1963...

American Graphics 20TH Century Computing

8.95 Great

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Bernard Silver

Bernard Silver was an American inventor who co-created an early barcode system with Norman Woodland. While studying at t...

American Retail 20TH Century Barcode

8.94 Great

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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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Charles F. Kettering

Charles Kettering was an American inventor most notably recognized for his development of the electric automobile starte...

American 20TH Century Automobile Gm

8.42 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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Ransom E. Olds

Ransom E. Olds was an American automotive pioneer who founded the Olds Motor Vehicle Company and later the REO Motor Car...

American 20TH Century Transport Automobile

7.78 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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Preston Tucker

Preston Tucker was an American entrepreneur who founded the Tucker Corporation to manufacture the 1948 Tucker 48 sedan....

Safety American 20TH Century Transport

6.94 Fair