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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

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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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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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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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Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Franklin was a prominent 18th-century inventor and scientist. His meticulous research into electricity, particu...

18TH Century American Electricity Lightning

9.34 Excellent

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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

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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

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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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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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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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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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Andy Rubin

Andy Rubin is an American inventor recognized for his pivotal role in developing the Android operating system. He co-fou...

Mobile American 21ST Century Computing

8.37 Great

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Mary Lou Jepsen

Mary Lou Jepsen is an American engineer, inventor, and technology executive known for work on low-power display and imag...

American 21ST Century Imaging Electronics

7.88 Good