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| Robert Cook |
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Robert Cook is a co-founder of Metaweb. He was a software programmer at Brøderbund in the 1980s and was the model for one of the characters in Jordan Mechner's game Prince of Persia. He designed and created the computer game D/Generation and was...
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| Patrick Tufts |
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Patrick Tufts is a computer scientist and inventor. He created Alexa Internet's collaborative filter and later, one of Amazon.com's most successful product recommendation systems. He is also a Wikipedia editor.
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| Nikola Tesla |
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Nikola Tesla (Serbian Cyrillic: ) (10 July 1856 – 7 January 1943) was an inventor, physicist, mechanical and electrical engineer. Born in Smiljan, Croatian Krajina, Austrian Empire, he was an ethnic Serb subject of the Austrian Empire and later...
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| Gideon Sundback | Person | Zipper |
Otto Frederick Gideon Sundbäck (April 24, 1880 - June 21, 1954) was a Swedish-Canadian inventor. He made several advances in the development of the zipper between 1906 and 1914, while working for companies that later evolved into Talon, Inc. He...
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| Trevor Blackwell |
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Trevor Blackwell (born 4 November 1969 in Canada), is a computer programmer based in Silicon Valley.
Blackwell is a developer of humanoid robots. He is also the inventor of the Eunicycle, essentially a one-wheeled Segway. Dr. Blackwell is the...
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| Josephine Cochrane | Person |
Josephine Garis Cochran (she added an "e" to Cochran) (1839 - August 3, 1913) invented the first practical mechanical dishwasher in 1886, in Shelbyville, Illinois. Mrs. Cochrane was a rich woman who held many fancy dinner parties. She didn't do any...
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| Oliver Joseph Lodge |
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Sir Oliver Joseph Lodge, FRS, (June 12,1851 - August 22, 1940), born at Penkhull in Stoke-on-Trent and educated at Adams' Grammar School, was a physicist and writer involved in the development of the wireless telegraph. Lodge, in his Royal...
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| Stephanie Kwolek | Person |
Stephanie Kwolek (born July 31, 1923) is an American chemist who discovered poly-paraphenylene terephtalamide—better known as Kevlar. She was born in the Pittsburgh suburb of New Kensington, Pennsylvania
She graduated from Margaret Morrison...
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| Elihu Thomson | Person |
Elihu Thomson (March 29, 1853 – March 13, 1937) was an engineer and inventor who was instrumental in the founding of major electrical companies in the United States, United Kingdom and France.
He was born in Manchester (England) on 29 March 1853,...
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| Leopold Mannes | Person |
Leopold Damrosch Mannes (26 December 1899 - 11 August 1964) was an American musician who, together with Leopold Godowsky, Jr., created the first practical color transparency film, Kodachrome.
Mannes and Godowsky's experimentation with color...
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| John P. Hogan | Person |
John Paul Hogan (born August 7, 1919) is an American research chemist. Along with Robert Banks he discovered methods of producing polypropylene and high-density polyethylene.
Hogan was born in Lowes, Kentucky and earned B.S. degrees in both...
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| George Herman Babcock |
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George Herman Babcock (June 17, 1832 – December 16, 1893) was an American inventor. He co-invented an improved safety water tube steam boiler.
In 1997, he was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame.
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| Hugo Borchardt | Person |
Hugo Borchardt (June 6, 1844-May 8, 1924) was a firearms inventor and engineer, born in Magdeburg, Germany. He is known for his inventions of the Borchardt C-93 pistol and the Sharps-Borchardt Model 1878 rifle.
In 1860 he emigrated to the United...
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| Ray Dolby |
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Ray Dolby (born January 18 1933) is the American inventor of the noise reduction system known as Dolby NR. He was also a co-inventor of video tape recording while at Ampex. He is the founder and chairman of Dolby Laboratories.
Dolby was born in...
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| Frederick Marriott | Person |
Frederick Marriott (c. 1805 – c. 1884) was an early aviation pioneer and creator of the Avitor Hermes Jr. which was the first unmanned aircraft to fly under its own power in the United States. Marriott is given credit for coining the term "aeroplane...
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| John Browning |
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John Moses Browning (January 21 or January 23, 1855 – November 26, 1926), born in Ogden, Utah, was an American firearm designer who developed many varieties of firearms, cartridges, and gun mechanisms, many of which are still in use around the world...
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| Ernest H. Volwiler | Person |
Ernest Henry Volwiler (August 22, 1893-October 3, 1992) spent his entire career at Abbott Laboratories working his way from staff chemist to CEO.
A Hamilton, Ohio native, Volwiler received a bachelor's degree from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio...
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| Ernő Rubik |
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Ernő Rubik (born July 13, 1944) is a Hungarian inventor, sculptor and professor of architecture. He is best known for the invention of mechanical puzzle including Rubik's Cube, Rubik's Magic and Rubik's Snake.
Ernő Rubik was born in Budapest,...
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| Eli Whitney |
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Eli Whitney (December 8, 1765 – January 8, 1825) was an American inventor best known as the inventor of the cotton gin. This was one of the key inventions of the industrial revolution and shaped the economy of the antebellum South. Whitney's...
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| National Inventors Hall of Fame |
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The National Inventors Hall of Fame is an organization that honors important inventor from the whole world. The only prerequisite of induction is being named an inventor on a US patent. Posthumous induction is allowed. As of 2008 there were 389...
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| Bernhard Baron | Person |
Bernhard Baron (1850-1929) was a Jewish cigarette-manufacturer and philanthropist. He was born at Brest-Litovsk (modern Belarus), in poor circumstances, and brought up among the Don Cossacks at Rostov. His father took him to the United States when...
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| Alfred Carlton Gilbert | Person |
Alfred Carlton Gilbert (born February 13, 1884 – died January 24, 1961) was an American inventor, athlete, toy-maker and businessman. Born in Salem, Oregon and died in Boston, Massachusetts, Gilbert is best known as the inventor of the Erector Set.
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| Casimir Zeglen |
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Polish-American Casimir Zeglen invented a bullet resistant cloth at the end of the 19th century. He was a Catholic priest of St. Stanislaus' Roman Catholic Church in Chicago, then the largest Polish church in the country, with 40,000 in the parish....
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| Lester Allan Pelton |
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Lester Allan Pelton (September 5, 1829 – March 14, 1908), was an American inventor who created the impulse water turbine.
He was born in Vermilion, Ohio and in 1850 immigrated to Camptonville, California during the gold rush. Pelton made his living...
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| Percy Spencer | Person |
Percy Lebaron Spencer (9 July, 1894 – 8 September, 1970) was an American engineer and inventor. He became known as the inventor of the microwave oven.
Spencer was born in Howland, Maine. His father died in 1897, and his mother left him a short time...
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| Frank Whittle |
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Air Commodore Sir Frank Whittle, OM, KBE, FRS, Hon FRAeS (1 June 1907–9 August 1996) was an English Royal Air Force officer. Sharing credit with Germany's Dr. Hans von Ohain for independently inventing the jet engine, he is hailed as a father of jet...
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| Thaddeus Cahill | Person |
Thaddeus Cahill (1867 - 1934) was a prominent inventor of the early 20th century. He is widely credited with the invention of the first electromechanical musical instrument, which he dubbed the teleharmonium. Cahill had tremendous ambitions for his...
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| Etienne Lenoir |
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Jean Joseph Étienne Lenoir (January 12 1822 - August 4 1900) was a French-Belgian engineer.
Born in Mussy-la-Ville, Belgium, by the early 1850s he had emigrated to France, taking up residence in Paris, where he developed an interest in...
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| Norbert Rillieux | Person |
Norbert Rillieux (March 17,1806 – October 8, 1894), an American inventor and engineer, is most noted for his invention of the multiple-effect evaporator, an energy-efficient means of evaporating water. This invention was an important development in...
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