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Wright brothers

Orville and Wilbur Wright were American inventors credited with inventing, building, and flying the world’s first succes...

American 20TH Century Aviation Airplane

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Ada Lovelace

Ada Lovelace is recognized as the first computer programmer for her notes on Charles Babbages Analytical Engine. Her ins...

Software Algorithm Mathematics Computer Science

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Bob Kahn

Bob Kahn is an American engineer who, with Vint Cerf, designed TCP/IP, the core protocol suite adopted by ARPANET in 198...

Internet American Networking 20TH Century

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Henry Ford

Henry Ford was an American industrialist whose Model T, introduced in 1908, and moving assembly line made automobiles af...

American Manufacturing 20TH Century Automobile

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Douglas Engelbart

Douglas Engelbart was an American computer engineer whose 1968 demo introduced the mouse, hypertext, windows, and collab...

American GUI 20TH Century Computing

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Robert H. Goddard

Robert H. Goddard was an American physicist who launched the first liquid-fueled rocket in Massachusetts in 1926, a foun...

American Space 20TH Century Liquid Fuel

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Sergei Korolev

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Aerospace Space 20TH Century Soviet

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Ivan Sutherland

Ivan Sutherland is an American computer scientist whose 1963 Sketchpad system pioneered interactive graphics and compute...

American Graphics 20TH Century Computing

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Alan Kay

Alan Kay is an American computer scientist who shaped object oriented programming and led the Dynabook concept at Xerox...

American 20TH Century Computing Oop

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Steve Wozniak

Steve Wozniak is an American engineer who co-founded Apple and designed the Apple I in 1976 and Apple II in 1977.

Apple Hardware American 20TH Century

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Les Paul

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Music American Recording Guitar

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Frank Whittle

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20TH Century British Aviation Jet Engine

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Federico Faggin

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Sergey Brin

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Google American Search 20TH Century

8.8 Great

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Leo Fender

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Music American Guitar 20TH Century

8.8 Great

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Brian Kernighan

Brian Kernighan is a Canadian computer scientist who coauthored The C Programming Language in 1978 and helped create Uni...

Software Canadian Programming Unix

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Richard Stallman

Richard Stallman is an American programmer who founded the GNU Project in 1983 and the Free Software Foundation in 1985.

Software American 20TH Century Free Software

8.4 Great

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Paul Allen

Paul Allen was an American technologist who co-founded Microsoft with Bill Gates in 1975 and helped create its early BAS...

Software American Microsoft 20TH Century

8.3 Great

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Adele Goldberg

Adele Goldberg is an American computer scientist whose Smalltalk work at Xerox PARC in the 1970s influenced graphical us...

Software American GUI 20TH Century

8.2 Great

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Brendan Eich

Brendan Eich is an American programmer who created JavaScript at Netscape in 1995, making browser scripting central to t...

Software American Javascript 20TH Century

8.2 Great