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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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Joseph Henry

Joseph Henry (1797–1878) was an American scientist and engineer who served as the first Secretary of the Smithsonian Ins...

American 19TH Century Electrical Telegraphy

9.04 Excellent

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Christopher Sholes

American inventor Christopher Latham Sholes is notable for creating the first practical typewriter and developing the QW...

American 19TH Century Mechanical Typewriter

8.91 Great

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Frank Sprague

Frank Julian Sprague was an American electrical engineer and inventor who played a pivotal role in the development of ur...

American 19TH Century Transportation DC Motor

8.78 Great

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George Westinghouse

George Westinghouse was a 19th-century American inventor best known for his pioneering work with electrical systems. He...

American 19TH Century Electric Railway

8.74 Great

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Chuck Hull

Chuck Hull developed stereolithography, a pioneering method for creating three-dimensional objects from liquid resins us...

American Manufacturing 3D Printing 20TH Century

8.72 Great

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Alfred Vail

Alfred Vail was an American machinist, inventor, and telegraph operator who collaborated with Samuel Morse during the de...

American 19TH Century Telegraph Communications

8.72 Great

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Samuel Morse

Samuel Morse was an 19th century American inventor instrumental in revolutionizing communication. He developed Morse cod...

Communication American 19TH Century Code

8.65 Great

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William Morton

William Thomas Green Morton (1819-1868) was an American dentist who played a pivotal role in the introduction of anesthe...

American Medicine 19TH Century Surgery

8.63 Great

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Herman Hollerith

Herman Hollerith was an American inventor whose innovations dramatically improved data processing. He developed a punch-...

American 19TH Century Computing Punch Card Tabulator

8.51 Great

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Samuel Colt

Samuel Colt developed innovative manufacturing techniques for firearms during the 19th century. His key invention was th...

American Manufacturing 19TH Century Firearms

8.22 Great

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Elias Howe

Elias Howe developed the first commercially successful sewing machine utilizing a lockstitch mechanism. His 1846 inventi...

American 19TH Century Home Sewing Machine

8.13 Great

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Jacob Davis

Jacob W. Davis was a Latvian born American tailor who played a central role in the development of riveted work trousers....

American Manufacturing 19TH Century Apparel

7.73 Good

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Eli Terry

Eli Terry was an American clockmaker and inventor who fundamentally transformed the manufacturing industry in the early...

American Manufacturing 19TH Century Mass Produced Clock

7.73 Good

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Barthélemy Thimonnier

Barthélemy Thimonnier (1793-1857) was a French tailor and inventor who patented the first practical sewing machine in 18...

French Manufacturing 19TH Century Sewing Machine

7.61 Good

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William Kelly

William Kelly (1811-1888) was an American inventor and ironmaster who independently developed a pneumatic process for st...

American Manufacturing 19TH Century Materials

7.34 Good

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Margaret E. Knight

Margaret E. Knight (1838–1914) was an American inventor awarded a patent in 1871 for a machine that manufactured flat-bo...

American Manufacturing 19TH Century Machine

7.31 Good

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Isaac Merritt Singer

Isaac Merritt Singer was an American inventor and industrialist whose mechanical improvements and business strategies re...

American Manufacturing 19TH Century Sewing Machine

7.10 Good

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Seth Thomas

Seth Thomas was an American clockmaker and manufacturer born in 1785 who established his own factory in Plymouth Hollow,...

American Manufacturing 19TH Century Horology

6.76 Fair

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Sarah Boone

Sarah Boone was an African American American dressmaker and inventor who received a United States patent in 1892 for an...

American 19TH Century Home Laundry

6.45 Fair