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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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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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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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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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Les Paul

Les Paul was an American guitarist and inventor whose solid-body guitar work led to the 1952 Gibson Les Paul and advance...

Music American Recording Guitar

8.9 Great

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Paul Baran

Paul Baran was an American engineer whose 1960s RAND work described distributed networks and packet switching for surviv...

Internet American Networking 20TH Century

8.8 Great

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Larry Page

Larry Page is an American computer scientist who co-founded Google in 1998 and developed the PageRank search ranking met...

Google American Search 20TH Century

8.8 Great

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Sergey Brin

Sergey Brin is an American computer scientist who co-founded Google in 1998 after developing its search technology at St...

Google American Search 20TH Century

8.8 Great

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Leo Fender

Leo Fender was an American instrument maker whose company introduced the Telecaster in 1950 and the Stratocaster in 1954...

Music American Guitar 20TH Century

8.8 Great

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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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Gertrude B. Elion

Gertrude B. Elion was an American pharmacologist who co-developed drugs such as 6-mercaptopurine and shared the 1988 Nob...

American 20TH Century Medical Drugs

8.8 Great

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Marcian Hoff

Marcian Hoff is an American engineer who proposed the Intel 4004's general-purpose CPU architecture in 1969, helping lau...

American Intel 20TH Century Computing

8.7 Great

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Robert Moog

Robert Moog was an American engineer whose 1964 Moog synthesizer made voltage-controlled electronic instruments practica...

Music American 20TH Century Synthesizer

8.7 Great

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Dean Kamen

Dean Kamen is an American inventor known for the Segway transporter and the iBOT wheelchair, and for founding FIRST in 1...

American Medical Device 20TH Century Transport

8.1 Great

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Forrest Bird

Forrest Bird was an American aviator and biomedical inventor whose Bird Mark 7 respirator, released in 1957, became a wi...

American Medical Device 20TH Century Respiratory

7.9 Good

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Otis Boykin

Otis Boykin was an American engineer whose resistor and control-device patents were used in computers, guided missiles,...

American 20TH Century Pacemaker Electronics

7.7 Good