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Alexander Graham Bell

Alexander Graham Bell was a Scottish-born inventor whose 1876 U.S. telephone patent helped launch practical voice commun...

Audio Communication 19TH Century Telephone

9.2 Excellent

2

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

3

Henry Bessemer

Henry Bessemer was an English engineer whose 1856 Bessemer process made large-scale, low-cost steel production possible...

19TH Century Steel Industrial British

8.9 Great

4

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

5

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

6

Alfred Nobel

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Chemistry 19TH Century Swedish Dynamite

8.7 Great

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Richard Arkwright

Richard Arkwright was an English inventor whose 1769 water frame used water power to spin stronger cotton yarn and helpe...

18TH Century British Textile Factory

8.7 Great

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Joseph Marie Jacquard

Joseph Marie Jacquard was a French weaver whose 1801 Jacquard loom used punched cards to automate complex textile patter...

French 19TH Century Textile Loom

8.7 Great

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Gottlieb Daimler

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German Engine 19TH Century Transport

8.6 Great

10

Wilhelm Maybach

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German Engine 19TH Century Transport

8.3 Great

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Ada Lovelace

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Software Algorithm 19TH Century Computing

8.2 Great

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Robert Stephenson

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Civil Engineering 19TH Century British Railway

8.2 Great

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Robert Fulton

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American Submarine 19TH Century Transport

8.2 Great

14

Joseph Aspdin

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19TH Century Construction British Cement

8.2 Great

15

John Boyd Dunlop

John Boyd Dunlop was a Scottish-born inventor in Ireland who patented a practical pneumatic bicycle tire in 1888, improv...

19TH Century Transport Scottish Tire

8.0 Great

16

Joseph Swan

Joseph Swan was a British physicist and inventor who demonstrated a practical incandescent electric lamp in England befo...

Light 19TH Century Electric British

7.8 Good

17

Alexander Parkes

Alexander Parkes was an English metallurgist who created Parkesine, an early man-made plastic exhibited at the 1862 Inte...

19TH Century Plastic British Materials

7.6 Good

18

Robert William Thomson

Robert William Thomson was a Scottish inventor who patented an early pneumatic tire in 1845, decades before rubber techn...

19TH Century Pneumatic Transport Scottish

7.5 Good

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Pierre Lallement

Pierre Lallement was a French mechanic who patented a pedal-driven velocipede in the United States in 1866, an early for...

French 19TH Century Pedal Transport

7.2 Good

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Kirkpatrick Macmillan

Kirkpatrick Macmillan was a Scottish blacksmith often linked to an early pedal-driven bicycle design in the 1830s, thoug...

19TH Century Pedal Transport Scottish

6.8 Fair