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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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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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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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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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Frank Whittle

Frank Whittle was a British engineer who patented a turbojet engine in 1930 and helped launch Britain’s first jet aircra...

20TH Century British Aviation Jet Engine

8.9 Great

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Federico Faggin

Federico Faggin is an Italian-American engineer who led the Intel 4004 design in 1970-1971 and created key silicon-gate...

20TH Century Computing Italian American Microprocessor

8.8 Great

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Hiroshi Amano

Hiroshi Amano is a Japanese engineer who shared the 2014 Nobel Prize in Physics for efficient blue LEDs after achieving...

Semiconductor Japanese 20TH Century LED

8.7 Great

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Marcian Hoff

Marcian Hoff is an American engineer who proposed the Intel 4004's general-purpose CPU architecture in 1969, helping lau...

American Intel 20TH Century Computing

8.7 Great

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Tommy Flowers

Tommy Flowers was an English engineer who designed Colossus, the programmable electronic computer used at Bletchley Park...

Cryptography 20TH Century Computing British

8.5 Great

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Leonard Adleman

Leonard Adleman is an American computer scientist who co-created RSA cryptography in 1977 and later founded DNA computin...

American Cryptography 20TH Century Computing

8.4 Great

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Stanley Mazor

Stanley Mazor is an American engineer who helped define the Intel 4004 architecture and instruction set, part of the 197...

American 20TH Century Computing Microprocessor

8.3 Great

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Mark Dean

Mark Dean is an American computer engineer who co-created the IBM PC's ISA bus and in 1995 became IBM's first African Am...

Hardware American 20TH Century Computing

8.0 Great

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Sir Clive Sinclair

Sir Clive Sinclair was a British inventor whose Sinclair ZX Spectrum, released in 1982, made home computing affordable i...

20TH Century Computing British Consumer Tech

7.8 Good

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Hideo Kodama

Hideo Kodama is a Japanese engineer who described a photopolymer rapid prototyping system in 1981, an early form of 3D p...

Manufacturing 3D Printing Japanese 20TH Century

7.4 Good