swap_horiz Benjamin Franklin 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 credited with inventing, building, and flying the world’s first succes...

American 20TH Century Aviation Airplane

9.61 Brilliant

3

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

4

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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Jakob Berzelius

Jacob Berzelius was a Swedish chemist whose work in the early 19th century established fundamental principles of modern...

18TH Century Chemistry Silicon Swedish

9.41 Excellent

6

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

7

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

8

Hans Christian Ørsted

Hans Christian Ørsted (1777-1851) was a Danish physicist who made significant contributions to the field of electromagne...

18TH Century Danish Physics Electromagnetism

9.29 Excellent

9

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

10

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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Joseph Nicéphore Niépce

Joseph Nicéphore Niépce was a French inventor widely credited as a foundational pioneer in the field of photography. In...

18TH Century French Photography Heliography

9.26 Excellent

12

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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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

15

Augustin-Jean Fresnel

Augustin-Jean Fresnel was a French civil engineer and physicist whose research in the early 19th century provided founda...

18TH Century French Lighthouse Optics

9.17 Excellent

16

Bob Kahn

Bob Kahn was a pivotal American inventor instrumental in developing the foundations of the internet. His work with Vint...

Internet American Networking 20TH Century

9.15 Excellent

17

Eli Whitney

Eli Whitney was a 18th and 19th century American inventor best known for his invention of the cotton gin in 1793. This m...

18TH Century American Manufacturing Interchangeable

8.31 Great

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Oliver Evans

Oliver Evans was an American inventor and engineer who played a crucial role in the development of automated manufacturi...

18TH Century American Steam Milling

7.39 Good

19

David Bushnell

David Bushnell (1742–1824) was an American inventor from Connecticut best known for building the Turtle in 1775, a one-p...

Military 18TH Century American Submarine

7.31 Good

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John Fitch

John Fitch (1743-1798) was an American inventor and clockmaker who demonstrated a working steamboat on the Delaware Rive...

18TH Century American Marine Transport

7.13 Good