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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

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

3

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

4

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

5

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

6

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

7

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

8

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

9

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

10

Adolphe Sax

Adolphe Sax was a Belgian instrument maker in Paris who patented the saxophone in 1846, creating a reed instrument later...

Music 19TH Century Instrument Belgian

8.4 Great

11

Hiram Maxim

Hiram Maxim was an American-born British inventor who created the Maxim gun in the 1880s, the first fully automatic reco...

Engineering 19TH Century Firearms American British

8.4 Great

12

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

13

Wilhelm Maybach

Wilhelm Maybach was a German engineer who worked with Gottlieb Daimler and designed early petrol engines and cars, inclu...

German Engine 19TH Century Transport

8.3 Great

14

Carl von Linde

Carl von Linde was a German engineer who developed practical refrigeration machines in the 1870s and later advanced air...

German 19TH Century Industrial Refrigeration

8.3 Great

15

Cyrus McCormick

Cyrus McCormick was an American inventor and manufacturer associated with the mechanical reaper, patented in 1834, which...

American 19TH Century Agriculture Machine

8.3 Great

16

Robert Fulton

Robert Fulton was an American engineer whose steamboat Clermont began commercially successful service on the Hudson Rive...

American Submarine 19TH Century Transport

8.2 Great

17

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

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Alexander Wood

Alexander Wood was a Scottish physician who devised a true hypodermic syringe with a hollow needle in 1853, helping esta...

19TH Century Medical Scottish Syringe

7.3 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