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Wright Brothers (Orville & Wilbur Wright)

Orville and Wilbur Wright were American aviation pioneers and bicycle manufacturers who developed the first successful s...

American Mechanical Aviation Transportation

9.72 Brilliant

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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

3

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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Hero of Alexandria

Hero of Alexandria (also known as Heron) was a Greek mathematician and engineer active in Alexandria during the Roman pe...

Ancient Automata Greco Egyptian Aeolipile

9.42 Excellent

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Jakob Berzelius

Jacob Berzelius was a Swedish chemist whose work in the early 19th century established fundamental principles of modern...

18TH Century Chemistry Silicon Swedish

9.41 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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Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Franklin was a prominent 18th-century inventor and scientist. His meticulous research into electricity, particu...

18TH Century American Electricity Lightning

9.34 Excellent

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Hans Christian Ørsted

Hans Christian Ørsted (1777-1851) was a Danish physicist who made significant contributions to the field of electromagne...

18TH Century Danish Physics Electromagnetism

9.29 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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Joseph Nicéphore Niépce

Joseph Nicéphore Niépce was a French inventor widely credited as a foundational pioneer in the field of photography. In...

18TH Century French Photography Heliography

9.26 Excellent

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Augustin-Jean Fresnel

Augustin-Jean Fresnel was a French civil engineer and physicist whose research in the early 19th century provided founda...

18TH Century French Lighthouse Optics

9.17 Excellent

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Bartolomeo Cristofori

Bartolomeo Cristofori (c. 1655-1720) was an Italian instrument maker who developed the early pianoforte in Florence. His...

Music 18TH Century Italian Instrument

9.08 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

15

André-Marie Ampère

André-Marie Ampère was a French physicist and mathematician whose work laid the foundations for electrodynamics. He inve...

18TH Century French Physics Electrical

8.83 Great

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Jacques-Etienne Montgolfier

Jacques-Étienne Montgolfier (1745–1799) was a French inventor and paper manufacturer who, alongside his brother Joseph-M...

18TH Century French Aviation Hot Air Balloon

8.82 Great

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Joseph Marie Jacquard

Joseph Marie Jacquard was a French inventor renowned for his innovative loom design in 1801. This loom utilized punched...

French 19TH Century Textile Loom

8.65 Great

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Claude Chappe

Claude Chappe was a French inventor who developed the semaphore line, an optical telegraph system, in the late 18th cent...

Communication 18TH Century French Signaling

8.39 Great

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Joseph Bramah

Joseph Bramah was a British locksmith and inventor active during the 18th century. He is most recognized for his innovat...

18TH Century Mechanical British Hydraulic Press

8.00 Great

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Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot

Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot was an 18th-century French military engineer and inventor recognized for creating one of the earli...

18TH Century Automotive French Transport

7.46 Good