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Herman Hollerith

Herman Hollerith was an American inventor whose innovations dramatically improved data processing. He developed a punch-...

American 19TH Century Computing Punch Card Tabulator

9.3 Excellent

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John Pemberton

John Pemberton was an American pharmacist born in 1831. He developed Coca-Cola in Atlanta, Georgia, beginning with its c...

American 19TH Century Beverage Pharmacist

9.1 Excellent

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George Eastman

American inventor who founded Eastman Kodak in 1892 and introduced affordable roll-film cameras, making photography acce...

American Photography 19TH Century Kodak

9.0 Excellent

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John Moses Browning

John Moses Browning was an American firearms designer whose work included the M1911 pistol and Browning Automatic Rifle,...

American 20TH Century Firearms Machine Gun

8.8 Great

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Samuel Morse

Samuel Morse was an American painter and inventor who co-developed Morse code and sent a public telegraph message from W...

Communication American 19TH Century Code

8.7 Great

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George Westinghouse

George Westinghouse was an American inventor and industrialist who promoted alternating-current power systems in the Uni...

American 19TH Century Electric Railway

8.7 Great

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Elisha Otis

Elisha Otis was an American inventor who demonstrated a safety elevator brake in 1854, making passenger elevators practi...

Safety American 19TH Century Elevator

8.7 Great

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Richard Gatling

American inventor who patented the Gatling gun in 1862, the first successful rapid-fire weapon, significantly influencin...

American 19TH Century Mechanical Firearms

8.5 Great

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Hiram Maxim

Hiram Maxim was an American-born British inventor who created the Maxim gun in the 1880s, the first fully automatic reco...

Engineering 19TH Century Firearms American British

8.4 Great

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Frederick Lanchester

British engineer who built one of the earliest British petrol-driven cars in the 1890s and made foundational theoretical...

19TH Century Mechanical British Aerodynamics

8.4 Great

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Cyrus McCormick

Cyrus McCormick was an American inventor and manufacturer associated with the mechanical reaper, patented in 1834, which...

American 19TH Century Agriculture Machine

8.3 Great

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Norbert Rillieux

Norbert Rillieux was a Louisiana Creole engineer who built the first industrially practical multiple-effect evaporator f...

American 19TH Century Evaporation Industrial

8.2 Great

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Robert Fulton

Robert Fulton was an American engineer whose steamboat Clermont began commercially successful service on the Hudson Rive...

American Submarine 19TH Century Transport

8.2 Great

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Samuel Colt

Samuel Colt was an American inventor who patented a practical revolving firearm in 1836 and built Colt's Patent Fire-Arm...

American Manufacturing 19TH Century Firearms

8.2 Great

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Eugene Stoner

Eugene Stoner was an American firearms designer whose lightweight AR-15 rifle design, developed at ArmaLite in the 1950s...

American 20TH Century Firearms AR 15

8.2 Great

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Lewis Howard Latimer

Lewis Howard Latimer was an American draftsman and inventor whose 1882 carbon-filament process improved incandescent lam...

American Light 19TH Century Electric

8.1 Great

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William T. G. Morton

William T. G. Morton was an American dentist who publicly demonstrated ether anesthesia at Massachusetts General Hospita...

American 19TH Century Medical Anesthesia

8.1 Great

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Walter Hunt

American inventor who patented the safety pin in 1849 and also made early contributions to the lock-stitch sewing machin...

American Consumer 19TH Century Mechanical

8.1 Great

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Jacob Perkins

Jacob Perkins was an American inventor who received an 1834 British patent for a vapor-compression refrigeration system...

American Steam 19TH Century Mechanical

7.6 Good

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Josephine Cochrane

Josephine Cochrane was an American inventor who patented a mechanical dishwasher in 1886 and founded a company later lin...

American 19TH Century Mechanical Home Appliance

7.1 Good