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Wright brothers

The Wright brothers were American aviation pioneers whose Flyer made controlled powered flights at Kitty Hawk, North Car...

American 20TH Century Aviation Airplane

9.6 Brilliant

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Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Franklin was an American polymath whose lightning experiments in the 1750s advanced electrical science and popu...

18TH Century American Electricity Lightning

9.3 Excellent

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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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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

9.2 Excellent

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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

9.2 Excellent

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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

9.1 Excellent

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Bartolomeo Cristofori

Bartolomeo Cristofori was an Italian keyboard maker credited with inventing the piano around 1700, allowing players to v...

Music 18TH Century Italian Instrument

9.1 Excellent

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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

9.1 Excellent

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Sergei Korolev

Sergei Korolev was a Soviet rocket engineer who led the program that launched Sputnik 1 in 1957 and Yuri Gagarin into or...

Aerospace Space 20TH Century Soviet

9.1 Excellent

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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

9.0 Excellent

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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

8.9 Great

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Satoshi Nakamoto

Satoshi Nakamoto is the pseudonymous creator of Bitcoin, introduced in a 2008 white paper and launched as software in 20...

Blockchain Cryptography 21ST Century Bitcoin

8.9 Great

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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

8.9 Great

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Les Paul

Les Paul was an American guitarist and inventor whose solid-body guitar work led to the 1952 Gibson Les Paul and advance...

Music American Recording Guitar

8.9 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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Hans von Ohain

Hans von Ohain was a German physicist whose jet engine powered the Heinkel He 178 in 1939, the first aircraft to fly sol...

German 20TH Century Aviation Jet Engine

8.4 Great

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Hermann Oberth

Hermann Oberth was a Transylvanian-born German rocket theorist whose 1923 book helped establish the scientific basis for...

German Theory Space 20TH Century

8.4 Great

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Wilhelm Maybach

Wilhelm Maybach was a German engineer who worked with Gottlieb Daimler and designed early petrol engines and cars, inclu...

German Engine 19TH Century Transport

8.3 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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Melitta Bentz

Melitta Bentz was a German entrepreneur who patented a paper coffee filter in 1908, founding the Melitta company from he...

German Filter 20TH Century Home

7.4 Good