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Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen

Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen was a German physicist and mechanical engineer who discovered X-rays in 1895 while experimenting...

German Physics 19TH Century Medical

9.8 Brilliant

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Wilhelm Röntgen

Wilhelm Röntgen was a German physicist whose accidental discovery of x-rays in 1895 revolutionized science and medicine....

German Physics Medicine 19TH Century

9.6 Brilliant

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George Boole

George Boole was a 19th-century English mathematician and logician whose work formalized the algebra of logic. His 1854...

Mathematics 19TH Century Computing British

9.6 Brilliant

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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

9.5 Brilliant

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William Thomson (Lord Kelvin)

William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin, was a prominent Irish-Scottish mathematician and physicist who played a central role...

Physics 19TH Century Thermodynamics Irish Scottish

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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Lord Kelvin (William Thomson)

William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin (1824–1907), was a British mathematical physicist and engineer. He played a central ro...

Physics Theory 19TH Century British

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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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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Thomas Young

Thomas Young (1773–1829) was a British polymath whose contributions spanned physics, physiology, linguistics, and medici...

Physics Theory 19TH Century British

9.4 Excellent

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Christopher Latham Sholes

Christopher Latham Sholes was an American inventor and newspaperman who, alongside Samuel W. Soulé and Carlos Glidden, p...

Writing 19TH Century Keyboard Office

8.7 Great

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John Walker

John Walker (1781–1859) was an English pharmacist based in Stockton-on-Tees, County Durham, who invented the first pract...

Consumer Chemistry 19TH Century British

8.3 Great

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King Camp Gillette

King Camp Gillette (1855–1932) was an American inventor and businessman best known for patenting the disposable safety r...

American Consumer 19TH Century Grooming

8.3 Great

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Walter Hunt

Walter Hunt was a 19th-century American mechanic and inventor known for his diverse range of practical devices. He is mo...

American Consumer 19TH Century Mechanical

8.1 Great

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Laszlo Biro

László Bíró was a Hungarian-Argentinian journalist and inventor best known for patenting the modern ballpoint pen. In 19...

Writing Consumer 20TH Century Office

8.1 Great

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James Leonard Plimpton

James Leonard Plimpton (1828–1911) was an American inventor credited with revolutionizing roller skating with his 1863 p...

American Consumer 19TH Century Recreation

7.7 Good

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Whitcomb Judson

Whitcomb L. Judson was an American inventor associated with an early mechanical fastener that anticipated the modern zip...

American Consumer 19TH Century Zipper

7.5 Good

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Bette Nesmith Graham

Bette Nesmith Graham was an American secretary and entrepreneur who invented Liquid Paper correction fluid in the 1950s....

Writing American 20TH Century Office

7.1 Good

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Lyda D. Newman

Lyda D. Newman was an African American hairdresser and inventor associated with New York City. In 1898 she received a Un...

American Consumer 19TH Century Hairbrush

6.4 Fair

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John Loud

John J. Loud was an American inventor and leather tanner associated with an early ballpoint pen design. He received a Un...

Writing American Consumer 19TH Century

6.3 Fair