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| Robert Cook |
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Person | Digital cartoon and animation process |
Robert Cook is co-founder and head of product design and development at Metaweb. You can find out more about him at his Freebase user page.
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| Patrick Tufts |
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Person | Use of web usage trail data to identify related links |
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 and a mechanical and electrical engineer. Born in Smiljan, Croatian Krajina, Austrian Empire, he was an ethnic Serb subject of the Austrian Empire and later became an...
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| Gideon Sundback | Person | Zipper |
Otto Frederick Gideon Sundbäck (April 24, 1880 - June 21, 1954) was a Swedish-American 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 Cochrane (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 did not 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 (December 26, 1899 – August 11, 1964) was an American musician, born in New York City, who, together with Leopold Godowsky, Jr., created the first practical color transparency film, Kodachrome.
Mannes and Godowsky's...
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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. Together with Stephen Wilcox he founded the Babcock & Wilcox boiler company.
George H. Babcock is...
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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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| 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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Kazimierz Żegleń (Casimir Zeglen), born in 1869 near Ternopil, invented the first bulletproof vest . At the age of 18 he entered the Order of the Resurrection in Lviv. In 1890, he moved to the United States. In 1893, after the assassination of the...
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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 (RAF) officer. Sharing credit with Germany's Dr. Hans von Ohain for independently inventing the jet engine, he is hailed as a...
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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 telharmonium. 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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| Bruno Abakanowicz |
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Bruno Abdank-Abakanowicz (October 6, 1852 - August 29 1900) was a mathematician, inventor and electrical engineer.
Abakanowicz was born in 1852 in Vilkmergė, Kovno Governorate of the Russian Empire (formerly the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, later part...
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| Charles Proteus Steinmetz |
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Charles Proteus Steinmetz (April 9, 1865 – October 26, 1923) was a German-American mathematician and electrical engineer. He fostered the development of alternating current that made possible the expansion of the electric power industry in the...
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| Alphonse Pénaud |
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Alphonse Pénaud (1850–1880), was a 19th century French pioneer of aviation, inventor of the rubber powered model airplane Planophore and founder of the aviation industry. He built and sold ornithopter as well as propeller-driven models, and with...
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| Margarete Steiff |
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Steiff is a German-based plush toy company known for its high quality and equally high prices. It was begun in 1880 by Margarete Steiff, who was later assisted by her brother Fritz. Their nephew Richard joined in 1897, who gave the company an...
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| Leopold Godowsky, Jr. | Person |
Leopold Godowsky, Jr. (May 27 1900 - February 18 1983) was an American violinist and chemist, who together with Leopold Mannes created the first practical color transparency film, Kodachrome.
Mannes and Godowsky's experimentation with color...
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| Charles Martin Hall |
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Charles Martin Hall (December 6, 1863–December 27, 1914) was an American inventor and engineer. He is best known for his invention in 1886 of an inexpensive method for producing aluminum, which became the first metal to attain widespread use since...
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| Juanelo Turriano | Person |
Juanelo Turriano (Spanish name) or Gianello Torriano (Italian), also known as Giovanni Torriani (c. 1500 — 1585), was an Italian-Spanish clock maker, engineer and mathematician. He was born in Cremona.
Called to Spain in 1529 by Charles V, Holy...
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| Goldsworthy Gurney |
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Sir Goldsworthy Gurney (1793-1875) was a surgeon, chemist, lecturer, consultant, architect, builder and prototypical British gentleman scientist and inventor of the Victorian period.
Amongst many accomplishments, he developed the oxy-hydrogen...
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| Walter Houser Brattain |
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Walter Houser Brattain (February 10, 1902–October 13, 1987) was an American physicist at Bell Labs who, along with John Bardeen and William Shockley, invented the transistor. They shared the 1956 Nobel Prize in Physics for their invention. He...
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| Richard Steiff | Person |
Richard Steiff (February 7 1877 – March 30 1939) was a German inventor and entrepreneur. The nephew of the toymaker Margarete Steiff, he is credited with the designing the Steiff Company's first toy bear.
Steiff was born in Giengen, and entered his...
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| Thomas Blanchard | Person |
\tThomas Blanchard (June 24, 1788 – April 16, 1864) was a prolific American inventor, awarded over twenty-five patents for his creations.
Born in Sutton, Massachusetts, his first machine, made and patented in 1806, was a mechanical tack-maker,...
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| William Shockley |
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William Bradford Shockley (February 13, 1910 – August 12, 1989) was a British-born American physicist and inventor.
Along with John Bardeen and Walter Houser Brattain, Shockley co-invented the transistor, for which all three were awarded the 1956...
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| Oliver Evans |
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Oliver Evans (13 September, 1755 – 15 April, 1819) was a United States inventor.
Evans was born in Newport, Delaware. At the age of 14 he was apprenticed to a wheelwright.
Evans' first invention was in 1777, when he designed a machine for making...
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| Elias Howe |
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Elias Howe (July 9, 1819 – October 3, 1867) was an American inventor and sewing machine pioneer. He was born in Spencer, Massachusetts.
Howe spent his childhood and early adult years in Massachusetts where he apprenticed in a textile factory and...
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