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Wright brothers

Orville and Wilbur Wright were American inventors whose work established a practical foundation for powered aviation. Th...

American 20TH Century Aviation Airplane

9.61 Brilliant

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Bob Noyce

Robert Noyce (1927–1990) was an American physicist, inventor, and businessman nicknamed 'the Mayor of Silicon Valley.' H...

American Silicon Valley 20TH Century Microchip

9.46 Excellent

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Charles K. Kao

Charles K. Kao was an engineer and physicist whose research established the practical basis for transmitting information...

Optics 20TH Century Fiber Optics Communications

9.42 Excellent

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Henry Ford

Henry Ford was an American inventor best known for revolutionizing automobile manufacturing. His development of the movi...

American Manufacturing 20TH Century Automobile

9.24 Excellent

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James Chadwick

James Chadwick was a British physicist who fundamentally advanced the field of nuclear physics by discovering the neutro...

Science 20TH Century British Nuclear Physics

9.24 Excellent

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Gunpei Yokoi

Gunpei Yokoi was a Japanese video game designer and hardware inventor who worked for Nintendo from 1965 to 1996. He crea...

Entertainment Nintendo Video Game Japanese

9.22 Excellent

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Bob Kahn

Bob Kahn was a pivotal American inventor instrumental in developing the foundations of the internet. His work with Vint...

Internet American Networking 20TH Century

9.15 Excellent

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Paul Baran

Paul Baran developed groundbreaking concepts in networking during the 1960s. His research at RAND Corporation outlined d...

Internet American Networking 20TH Century

8.75 Great

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Donald Davies

Donald Davies was a British computer scientist instrumental in developing packet switching technology during the 20th ce...

Internet Networking 20TH Century British

8.70 Great

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Vic Hayes

Vic Hayes is a Dutch electrical engineer who chaired the IEEE working group that developed the 802.11 family of wireless...

Wireless Wi Fi Networking 20TH Century

8.70 Great

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Bob Metcalfe

Bob Metcalfe was an American engineer instrumental in the development of Ethernet networking technology. His work at Xer...

American Ethernet Networking 20TH Century

8.56 Great

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Edwin Howard Armstrong

Edwin Howard Armstrong was a pioneering 20th-century electrical engineer whose innovations fundamentally reshaped wirele...

Wireless Broadcast 20TH Century Electronics

8.53 Great

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David Boggs

David Boggs was an American computer scientist instrumental in developing Ethernet. Working alongside Bob Metcalfe at Xe...

American Ethernet Networking 20TH Century

8.42 Great

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Leonard Kleinrock

Leonard Kleinrock was an American computer scientist instrumental in shaping digital networks. His 1961 development of p...

American Networking 20TH Century Packet Switching

8.33 Great

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Martin Cooper

Martin Cooper was an American engineer instrumental in developing the first portable cellular telephone. His 1973 demons...

Wireless American 20TH Century Telecom

8.31 Great

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Robert Metcalfe

Robert Metcalfe was an American engineer whose work fundamentally shaped modern computing. He developed Ethernet, a netw...

Ethernet Networking 20TH Century Computing

8.20 Great

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Larry Roberts

Larry Roberts was an American computer scientist instrumental in pioneering network technology. He led the development o...

Internet American Networking 20TH Century

8.14 Great

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Jesse Russell

Jesse Russell is an American electrical engineer and inventor who made fundamental contributions to the development of w...

Wireless Mobile American 20TH Century

7.65 Good

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Ernst Alexanderson

Ernst Alexanderson was a Swedish-American electrical engineer who worked for General Electric and RCA. He is best known...

Wireless Radio 20TH Century Ge

7.09 Good

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George Antheil

George Antheil was an American composer whose work crossed music, technology, and mechanical experimentation. With the a...

Wireless American 20TH Century Frequency Hopping

6.29 Fair