swap_horiz Satoshi Nakamoto Alternatives

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Johannes Gutenberg

Johannes Gutenberg was a German printer whose movable-type press produced the Gutenberg Bible about 1455 and transformed...

German Press Printing 15TH Century

9.7 Brilliant

2

Wright brothers

The Wright brothers were American aviation pioneers whose Flyer made controlled powered flights at Kitty Hawk, North Car...

American 20TH Century Aviation Airplane

9.6 Brilliant

3

Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Franklin was an American polymath whose lightning experiments in the 1750s advanced electrical science and popu...

18TH Century American Electricity Lightning

9.3 Excellent

4

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

5

Bob Kahn

Bob Kahn is an American engineer who, with Vint Cerf, designed TCP/IP, the core protocol suite adopted by ARPANET in 198...

Internet American Networking 20TH Century

9.2 Excellent

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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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Douglas Engelbart

Douglas Engelbart was an American computer engineer whose 1968 demo introduced the mouse, hypertext, windows, and collab...

American GUI 20TH Century Computing

9.1 Excellent

8

Bartolomeo Cristofori

Bartolomeo Cristofori was an Italian keyboard maker credited with inventing the piano around 1700, allowing players to v...

Music 18TH Century Italian Instrument

9.1 Excellent

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Robert H. Goddard

Robert H. Goddard was an American physicist who launched the first liquid-fueled rocket in Massachusetts in 1926, a foun...

American Space 20TH Century Liquid Fuel

9.1 Excellent

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Sergei Korolev

Sergei Korolev was a Soviet rocket engineer who led the program that launched Sputnik 1 in 1957 and Yuri Gagarin into or...

Aerospace Space 20TH Century Soviet

9.1 Excellent

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Ivan Sutherland

Ivan Sutherland is an American computer scientist whose 1963 Sketchpad system pioneered interactive graphics and compute...

American Graphics 20TH Century Computing

9.0 Excellent

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Alan Kay

Alan Kay is an American computer scientist who shaped object oriented programming and led the Dynabook concept at Xerox...

American 20TH Century Computing Oop

8.9 Great

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Steve Wozniak

Steve Wozniak is an American engineer who co-founded Apple and designed the Apple I in 1976 and Apple II in 1977.

Apple Hardware American 20TH Century

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

15

Ron Rivest

Ron Rivest is an American cryptographer and MIT professor who co-created the RSA public key algorithm in 1977.

Security American Cryptography 20TH Century

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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Leonard Adleman

Leonard Adleman is an American computer scientist who co-created RSA cryptography in 1977 and later founded DNA computin...

American Cryptography 20TH Century Computing

8.4 Great

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Vitalik Buterin

Vitalik Buterin is a Canadian programmer who co-founded Ethereum, launched in 2015 as a blockchain platform for smart co...

Blockchain Canadian 21ST Century Ethereum

8.2 Great

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Ralph Merkle

Ralph Merkle is an American cryptographer known for Merkle trees and for early public key cryptography work with Merkle...

Security American Cryptography 20TH Century

8.1 Great

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Adrian Bowyer

Adrian Bowyer is a British engineer who founded the RepRap project in 2005 to develop self-replicating open source 3D pr...

Open Source 3D Printing 21ST Century British

7.3 Good