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Wright brothers

Orville and Wilbur Wright were American inventors whose work established a practical foundation for powered aviation. Th...

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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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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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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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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Chuck Peddle

Charles Ingerham 'Chuck' Peddle (1937–2019) was an American electrical engineer best known for leading the team at MOS T...

American 20TH Century Computing Microprocessor

9.08 Excellent

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Arthur Leonard Schawlow

Arthur Leonard Schawlow was an American physicist who worked with Charles Townes on extending maser principles to optica...

American Optics 20TH Century Laser

9.08 Excellent

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Robert H. Goddard

Robert H. Goddard was an American physicist whose pioneering work fundamentally shaped space exploration. He developed a...

American Space 20TH Century Liquid Fuel

9.05 Excellent

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Ivan Sutherland

Ivan Sutherland was a pioneering American computer scientist instrumental in developing interactive computing. His 1963...

American Graphics 20TH Century Computing

8.95 Great

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Bernard Silver

Bernard Silver was an American inventor who co-created an early barcode system with Norman Woodland. While studying at t...

American Retail 20TH Century Barcode

8.94 Great

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Alan Kay

Alan Kay was a prominent 20th-century American computer scientist whose work profoundly influenced computing theory and...

American 20TH Century Computing Oop

8.90 Great

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Maurice Hilleman

Maurice Hilleman was a prominent American microbiologist whose groundbreaking work significantly advanced vaccine develo...

American Medicine 20TH Century Vaccines

8.88 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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Robert F. Flemming Jr.

Robert F. Flemming Jr. was an American musician, guitar manufacturer, and inventor active in the late 19th century. He i...

Music American 19TH Century Guitar

6.10 Fair