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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

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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

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Charles K. Kao

Charles K. Kao was an engineer and physicist whose research established the practical basis for transmitting information...

Optics 20TH Century Fiber Optics Communications

9.42 Excellent

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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

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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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James Chadwick

James Chadwick was a British physicist who fundamentally advanced the field of nuclear physics by discovering the neutro...

Science 20TH Century British Nuclear Physics

9.24 Excellent

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Gunpei Yokoi

Gunpei Yokoi was a Japanese video game designer and hardware inventor who worked for Nintendo from 1965 to 1996. He crea...

Entertainment Nintendo Video Game Japanese

9.22 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

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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

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Momofuku Ando

Momofuku Ando was an entrepreneur and inventor born in Taiwan who became a Japanese citizen and founded Nissin Food Prod...

Food Consumer Japanese 20TH Century

9.14 Excellent

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Sergei Korolev

Sergei Korolev was a pivotal Soviet aerospace inventor responsible for pioneering rocket technology during the Cold War....

Aerospace Space 20TH Century Soviet

9.12 Excellent

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John William Mauchly

John William Mauchly (1907–1980) was an American physicist who made significant contributions to the early history of el...

American 20TH Century Computing Eniac

9.12 Excellent

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Dan Bricklin

Dan Bricklin is an American computer programmer and entrepreneur who co-created VisiCalc with Bob Frankston. VisiCalc wa...

Software American Spreadsheet 20TH Century

9.11 Excellent

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Douglas Engelbart

Douglas Engelbart was a pioneering American computer scientist instrumental in shaping modern computing. His 1968 presen...

American GUI 20TH Century Computing

9.10 Excellent

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Les Paul

Les Paul was a pioneering American musician and inventor instrumental in shaping modern music technology. His innovative...

Music American Recording Guitar

8.85 Great

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Leo Fender

Leo Fender was a pivotal 20th-century American inventor renowned for revolutionizing musical instruments. He founded Fen...

Music American Guitar 20TH Century

8.76 Great

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Robert Moog

Robert Moog developed pioneering electronic musical instruments beginning in the mid-20th century. His innovations cente...

Music American 20TH Century Synthesizer

8.74 Great

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Mikhail Kalashnikov

Mikhail Kalashnikov was a Soviet firearms designer whose innovative design fundamentally shaped small arms warfare. He c...

Military Russian 20TH Century Firearms

8.45 Great

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Kane Kramer

Kane Kramer is a British inventor associated with the IXI, a proposed portable digital audio player conceived in 1979. T...

Music 20TH Century British Electronics

6.63 Fair