swap_horiz Ransom E. Olds Alternatives

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Wright brothers

Orville and Wilbur Wright were American inventors credited with inventing, building, and flying the world’s first succes...

American 20TH Century Aviation Airplane

9.6 Brilliant

2

Andrew Fire

Andrew Fire is an American biologist renowned for his pioneering work on RNA interference. His collaboration with Craig...

American Medicine 20TH Century Genetics

9.4 Excellent

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Vannevar Bush

Vannevar Bush was an American engineer whose work profoundly influenced computing. He led scientific research efforts du...

American 20TH Century Computing Memex Concept

9.4 Excellent

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Ferdinand Porsche

Ferdinand Porsche was an Austrian-born inventor instrumental in shaping twentieth-century automotive design. His enginee...

Austrian Racing 20TH Century Automobile

9.4 Excellent

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Edwin Land

Edwin Land was an American inventor pivotal to the development of modern photography. His creation, the Polaroid Land ca...

American Optics 20TH Century Polaroid

9.3 Excellent

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Leroy Hood

Leroy Hood was an American biologist whose invention of the automated DNA sequencer revolutionized biotechnology. His wo...

American 20TH Century Biotechnology Genomics

9.3 Excellent

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Seymour Cray

Seymour Cray was an American electrical engineer whose innovative designs revolutionized computer hardware. He created t...

Hardware American 20TH Century Computing

9.3 Excellent

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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

9.3 Excellent

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Kiichiro Toyoda

Kiichiro Toyoda was a Japanese industrialist instrumental in developing modern automobile manufacturing. His innovations...

Manufacturing Japanese 20TH Century Automobile

9.3 Excellent

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Soichiro Honda

Soichiro Honda was a Japanese engineer instrumental in developing the Honda engine. He established Honda Motor Co. in 19...

Japanese Motorcycle 20TH Century Automobile

9.3 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 inventor best known for revolutionizing automobile manufacturing. His development of the movi...

American Manufacturing 20TH Century Automobile

9.2 Excellent

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Jay Forrester

Jay Forrester was an American engineer who developed coincident-current magnetic core memory during his time at MIT in 1...

Hardware American 20TH Century Computing

9.2 Excellent

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David Boggs

American computer scientist who co-invented Ethernet with Bob Metcalfe at Xerox PARC in the early 1970s, defining the co...

American Ethernet Networking 20TH Century

9.2 Excellent

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Charles F. Kettering

American inventor who developed the electric automobile self-starter in 1912, replacing the dangerous hand crank and ena...

American 20TH Century Automobile Gm

9.2 Excellent

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James L. Fergason

American inventor who developed practical twisted nematic liquid crystal display technology in the 1960s and held over 1...

American 20TH Century LCD Display Materials

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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Frederick McKinley Jones

Frederick McKinley Jones was an American inventor who co-founded Thermo King and developed portable truck refrigeration...

American 20TH Century Refrigeration Transport

8.3 Great

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Dean Kamen

Dean Kamen is an American inventor known for the Segway transporter and the iBOT wheelchair, and for founding FIRST in 1...

American Medical Device 20TH Century Transport

8.1 Great

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Preston Tucker

Preston Tucker was an American automaker who developed the 1948 Tucker 48, noted for safety ideas such as a padded dashb...

Safety American 20TH Century Transport

6.9 Fair