swap_horiz Marc Raibert 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 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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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

8

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

15

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

16

George Devol

George Devol was an American inventor best known for conceiving the first programmable industrial robot. In 1954, he app...

American Automation 20TH Century Industrial Robot

8.72 Great

17

Joseph Engelberger

Joseph Engelberger was an American engineer and physicist who played a pivotal role in the commercialization of industri...

American Automation 20TH Century Industrial Robot

8.68 Great

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Yoky Matsuoka

Yoky Matsuoka is a Japanese-American computer scientist and roboticist recognized for her foundational work in the field...

Contemporary Medical Robotics Japanese American

7.73 Good

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Ray Kurzweil

Ray Kurzweil is an American inventor and futurist known for his pioneering work in optical character recognition (OCR),...

American AI Text To Speech 20TH Century

7.43 Good

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James McLurkin

James McLurkin is an American roboticist and inventor recognized for his extensive work in distributed swarm robotics. H...

American Contemporary Computing Robotics

7.36 Good