swap_horiz Samuel Colt Alternatives

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Henry Ford

Henry Ford was an American industrialist whose Model T, introduced in 1908, and moving assembly line made automobiles af...

American Manufacturing 20TH Century Automobile

9.2 Excellent

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John Moses Browning

John Moses Browning was an American firearms designer whose work included the M1911 pistol and Browning Automatic Rifle,...

American 20TH Century Firearms Machine Gun

8.8 Great

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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

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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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Chuck Hull

Chuck Hull is an American engineer who invented stereolithography in 1983, a foundational 3D printing process, and found...

American Manufacturing 3D Printing 20TH Century

8.7 Great

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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

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Eli Whitney

Eli Whitney was an American inventor whose 1793 cotton gin made short-staple cotton processing faster and reshaped the U...

18TH Century American Manufacturing Interchangeable

8.3 Great

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Scott Crump

Scott Crump is an American inventor who created fused deposition modeling in 1988 and co-founded Stratasys to commercial...

American Manufacturing 3D Printing 20TH Century

8.3 Great

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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

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Norbert Rillieux

Norbert Rillieux was a Louisiana Creole engineer who built the first industrially practical multiple-effect evaporator f...

American 19TH Century Evaporation Industrial

8.2 Great

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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

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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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Lewis Howard Latimer

Lewis Howard Latimer was an American draftsman and inventor whose 1882 carbon-filament process improved incandescent lam...

American Light 19TH Century Electric

8.1 Great

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Isaac Singer

Isaac Singer was an American inventor who improved and commercialized the sewing machine, receiving a key U.S. patent in...

American Manufacturing 19TH Century Home

8.1 Great

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Elias Howe

Elias Howe was an American inventor who patented a lockstitch sewing machine in 1846, a major step in mechanized garment...

American 19TH Century Home Sewing Machine

8.1 Great

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William T. G. Morton

William T. G. Morton was an American dentist who publicly demonstrated ether anesthesia at Massachusetts General Hospita...

American 19TH Century Medical Anesthesia

8.1 Great

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Jan Ernst Matzeliger

Jan Ernst Matzeliger was a Surinamese-American inventor whose 1883 lasting machine mechanized pulling shoe uppers over l...

Shoe Manufacturing 19TH Century Lasting Machine

8.0 Great

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Elisha Gray

Elisha Gray was an American inventor and Western Electric co-founder who filed a telephone caveat on February 14, 1876,...

Communication American 19TH Century Telephone

7.8 Good

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Crawford Long

Crawford Long was an American physician who used ether anesthesia in Georgia in 1842 for surgery, years before ether's p...

American 19TH Century Medical Anesthesia

7.8 Good

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Margaret E. Knight

Margaret E. Knight was an American inventor whose 1871 patent covered a machine for making flat-bottomed paper bags at i...

American Manufacturing 19TH Century Machine

7.3 Good