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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

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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

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Donald Davies

Donald Davies was a British computer scientist who coined packet switching and built the NPL network in the United Kingd...

Internet Networking 20TH Century British

8.7 Great

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Alfred Nobel

Alfred Nobel was a Swedish chemist and inventor who patented dynamite in 1867 and left his fortune to establish the Nobe...

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

Gottlieb Daimler was a German engineer who helped create a high-speed petrol engine in 1885, a key step toward modern mo...

German Engine 19TH Century Transport

8.6 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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Richard Trevithick

Richard Trevithick was a Cornish engineer who built high-pressure steam engines and ran an early steam locomotive in Wal...

Engine 19TH Century British Transport

8.5 Great

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Rene Laennec

Rene Laennec was a French physician who invented the stethoscope in Paris in 1816, creating a wooden tube for mediate au...

French 19TH Century Medical Diagnostics

8.5 Great

14

Ada Lovelace

Ada Lovelace was a British mathematician whose 1843 notes on Babbage's Analytical Engine include a pioneering published...

Software Algorithm 19TH Century Computing

8.2 Great

15

Joseph Aspdin

Joseph Aspdin was an English bricklayer who patented Portland cement in 1824, naming it for its resemblance to Portland...

19TH Century Construction British Cement

8.2 Great

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Granville Woods

Granville Woods was an American inventor with more than 50 patents, notably an 1887 railway telegraph that let moving tr...

American 19TH Century Electric Railway

8.1 Great

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Elijah McCoy

Elijah McCoy was a Canadian-born American engineer whose 1872 automatic lubricator let steam engines oil themselves whil...

19TH Century Railway Steam Engine Lubrication

8.0 Great

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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

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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

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Andrew Jackson Beard

Andrew Jackson Beard was an American inventor who patented automatic railroad-car coupler improvements in 1897 after los...

Safety American 19TH Century Railway

7.2 Good