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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

9.7 Brilliant

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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

9.6 Brilliant

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John Harrison

John Harrison was a British horologist and inventor of the 18th century. He dedicated his life to solving the challengin...

18TH Century Navigation British Horology

9.5 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

9.5 Brilliant

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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

9.5 Brilliant

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Albert Fert

Albert Fert was a French physicist whose independent discovery of giant magnetoresistance (GMR) revolutionized data stor...

French Physics 20TH Century Data Storage

9.4 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

9.4 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

9.4 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

9.4 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

9.4 Excellent

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Auguste Lumière

Auguste Lumière was a French inventor instrumental in the development of early cinema. He collaborated with his brother...

French Photography 19TH Century Film

9.3 Excellent

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Louis Lumière

Louis Lumière was a French inventor instrumental in the development of motion picture technology. He and his brother Aug...

French Photography 19TH Century Film

9.3 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

9.3 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

9.3 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

9.2 Excellent

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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

8.8 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

8.7 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

8.7 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

8.4 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

7.5 Good