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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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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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

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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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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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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

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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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James Hargreaves

James Hargreaves was an English weaver credited with inventing the spinning jenny in 1764, a multi-spindle machine that...

18TH Century Industrial British Textile

8.2 Great

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Samuel Crompton

Samuel Crompton was an English inventor who created the spinning mule around 1779, combining earlier machines to produce...

18TH Century Industrial British Textile

8.2 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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Edmund Cartwright

Edmund Cartwright was an English cleric and inventor who patented a power loom in 1785, an early step toward mechanized...

18TH Century Industrial British Textile

7.9 Good

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David Bushnell

David Bushnell was an American inventor who built Turtle, a hand-powered submarine used in a failed attack on a British...

Military 18TH Century American Submarine

7.3 Good