swap_horiz Ruth Wakefield Alternatives

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Wright Brothers (Orville & Wilbur Wright)

Orville and Wilbur Wright were American aviation pioneers and bicycle manufacturers who developed the first successful s...

American Mechanical Aviation Transportation

9.72 Brilliant

2

Wright brothers

Orville and Wilbur Wright were American inventors whose work established a practical foundation for powered aviation. Th...

American 20TH Century Aviation Airplane

9.61 Brilliant

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Bob Noyce

Robert Noyce (1927–1990) was an American physicist, inventor, and businessman nicknamed 'the Mayor of Silicon Valley.' H...

American Silicon Valley 20TH Century Microchip

9.46 Excellent

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Ted Hoff

Ted Hoff is an American electrical engineer who, while working at Intel in 1971, collaborated with Federico Faggin and S...

American Intel Late 20TH Electronics

9.43 Excellent

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Bob Moog

Robert Moog was an American engineering physicist and inventor who designed the first voltage-controlled subtractive syn...

Music American Electronics Mid 20TH

9.35 Excellent

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Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Franklin was a prominent 18th-century inventor and scientist. His meticulous research into electricity, particu...

18TH Century American Electricity Lightning

9.34 Excellent

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Stephanie Louise Kwolek

Stephanie Louise Kwolek was an American chemist renowned for her research in polymer chemistry while working at the DuPo...

American Chemistry Materials Mid 20TH

9.31 Excellent

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Charles R. Drew

Charles R. Drew was an American surgeon and medical researcher whose work in blood transfusion and storage techniques re...

American Medical Biological Mid 20TH

9.28 Excellent

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Charles Hard Townes

Charles Hard Townes was an American physicist whose work fundamentally advanced the field of quantum electronics. He is...

Modern American Optics Laser

9.26 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

9.24 Excellent

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Ernst Ruska

Ernst Ruska was a German physicist who designed and built the first electron microscope in 1931 while working at the Tec...

German Optics Scientific Mid 20TH

9.24 Excellent

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J.C.R. Licklider

Joseph Carl Robnett Licklider was an American psychologist and computer scientist who made significant contributions to...

American 20TH Century Computing Arpanet

9.21 Excellent

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Norman Woodland

Norman Joseph Woodland was an American inventor who co-created an early system for identifying products with machine-rea...

American Retail 20TH Century Barcode

9.19 Excellent

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Gail Borden

Gail Borden Jr. (1801–1874) was an American inventor and entrepreneur who received U.S. Patent No. 15,553 in 1856 for hi...

Food American 19TH Century Food Preservation

7.91 Good

15

Walter Frederick Morrison

Walter Frederick Morrison was an American inventor best known for creating the plastic flying disc later marketed global...

American Consumer Recreation Frisbee

7.72 Good

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Peter Cooper

Peter Cooper was an American industrialist, inventor, and philanthropist who played a significant role in the technologi...

Food American 19TH Century Jello Gelatin

7.17 Good

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Caleb Bradham

Caleb Bradham was an American pharmacist who created the soft drink that became Pepsi-Cola. In 1893, while working at hi...

Food American 19TH Century Beverage

6.62 Fair

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John Harvey Kellogg

John Harvey Kellogg was an American physician, nutritionist, and health reformer who directed the Battle Creek Sanitariu...

Nutrition Food American 19TH Century

6.42 Fair

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Amanda Jones

Amanda Jones was an American inventor and writer associated with a vacuum method for preserving food in sealed container...

Food American 19TH Century Vacuum Canning

5.99 Mediocre

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George Crum

George Crum was an American chef associated with Saratoga Springs, New York, during the nineteenth century. A popular st...

Food American 19TH Century Snacks

5.61 Mediocre