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Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen

Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen was a German physicist and mechanical engineer who discovered X-rays in 1895 while experimenting...

German Physics 19TH Century Medical

9.78 Brilliant

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Wilhelm Roentgen

Wilhelm Roentgen was a German physicist who discovered X-rays in 1895. He produced and detected electromagnetic radiatio...

German Physics Historical Medical

9.78 Brilliant

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Johannes Gutenberg

Johannes Gutenberg developed a printing press utilizing movable type in the mid-15th century. This innovation dramatical...

German Press Printing 15TH Century

9.72 Brilliant

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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

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Charles Parsons

Charles Algernon Parsons was an Anglo-Irish engineer and inventor best known for developing the reaction steam turbine....

Engineering 19TH Century Mechanical British

9.47 Excellent

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Ernst Ruska

Ernst Ruska was a German physicist who designed and built the first electron microscope in 1931 while working at the Tec...

German Optics Scientific Mid 20TH

9.24 Excellent

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Karl Ferdinand Braun

Karl Ferdinand Braun (1850-1918) was a German physicist whose work contributed to early electronics, radio engineering,...

German Radio 19TH Century Electronics

9.16 Excellent

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Werner von Siemens

Werner von Siemens, born Ernst Werner Siemens, was a 19th-century German electrical engineer and industrialist who lived...

German 19TH Century Electrical Dynamo

9.12 Excellent

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Ernst Werner von Siemens

Ernst Werner von Siemens was a German electrical engineer, inventor, and industrialist who lived from 1816 to 1892. He c...

German Engineering 19TH Century Dynamo

9.12 Excellent

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Otto von Guericke

Otto von Guericke (1602–1686) was a German scientist, inventor, and the mayor of Magdeburg, recognized for his foundatio...

German 17TH Century Pneumatics Scientific Instruments

8.91 Great

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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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Wilhelm Röntgen

Wilhelm Röntgen was a German physicist whose accidental discovery of x-rays in 1895 revolutionized science and medicine....

German Physics Medicine 19TH Century

8.81 Great

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Gabriel Fahrenheit

Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit (1686-1736) was a Dutch-German-Polish physicist and instrument maker born in Danzig (now Gdańs...

German 18TH Century Measurement Mercury Thermometer

8.79 Great

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John Harrison

John Harrison was a British horologist and inventor of the 18th century. He dedicated his life to solving the challengin...

18TH Century Navigation British Horology

8.69 Great

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Peter Grünberg

Peter Grünberg was a German physicist who revolutionized data storage technology. His independent 1988 discovery of gian...

German Physics 20TH Century Data Storage

8.65 Great

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Gottlieb Daimler

Gottlieb Daimler (1834-1900) was a German engineer whose pioneering work fundamentally shaped transportation. He develop...

German Engine 19TH Century Transport

8.64 Great

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Gerhard Domagk

Gerhard Domagk was a German pathologist who pioneered the use of sulfonamide drugs for treating bacterial infections. Hi...

German Chemistry Medicine 20TH Century

8.60 Great

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Jacques de Vaucanson

Jacques de Vaucanson was an 18th-century French inventor and engineer renowned for creating highly sophisticated mechani...

18TH Century French Mechanical Loom

8.55 Great

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Alois Senefelder

Alois Senefelder was a German actor and playwright who invented the printing process of lithography in 1796. He discover...

German 18TH Century Printing Lithography

8.55 Great

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Carl Zeiss

Carl Zeiss was a German optician whose workshop established in Jena in 1846 fundamentally shaped the field of optics. He...

German 19TH Century Lenses Microscopy

8.51 Great