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| x Robert Cook |
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Digital cartoon and animation process |
Robert Cook is co-founder and SVP Platform Partnerships at Metaweb. You can find out more about him at his Freebase user page.
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| x Patrick Tufts | Use of web usage trail data to identify related links |
Patrick Tufts is a computer scientist and entrepreneur. Patrick created Alexa Internet's collaborative filter and, following Alexa's acquisition by Amazon.com, one of Amazon's most successful product recommendation systems. He is also a Wikipedia...
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| x Nikola Tesla |
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Induction motor |
Nikola Tesla (Serbian Cyrillic: Никола Тесла; 10 July 1856 – 7 January 1943) was a Serbian-American inventor, mechanical engineer, electrical engineer, and futurist. He was an important contributor to the use of commercial electricity, and is best...
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| x Gideon Sundback |
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Zipper |
Gideon Sundback (April 24, 1880 – June 21, 1954) was a Swedish-American electrical engineer. Gideon Sundback is most commonly associated with his work in the development of the zipper.
Otto Fredrik Gideon Sundback was born on Sonarp farm in Ödestugu...
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| x Trevor Blackwell |
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Eunicycle |
Trevor Blackwell (born 4 November 1969 in Canada) is a computer programmer, engineer and entrepreneur based in Silicon Valley.
Blackwell is a developer of humanoid robots. He is also the inventor of the Eunicycle, essentially a one-wheeled Segway....
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| x Josephine Cochrane | Dishwasher |
Josephine Cochrane ( March 8, 1839, Ashtabula County, Ohio - August 3, 1913) made the first practical mechanical dishwasher in 1886, in Shelbyville, Illinois., although a washing machine device was patented in 1850 by Joel Houghton (see Dishwasher,...
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| x Oliver Joseph Lodge |
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Sir Oliver Joseph Lodge, FRS (12 June 1851 – 22 August 1940) was a British physicist and writer involved in the development of key patents in wireless telegraphy. In his 1894 Royal Institution lectures ("The Work of Hertz and Some of His Successors"...
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| x Stephanie Kwolek | Kevlar |
Stephanie Louise Kwolek (born July 31, 1923) is an American chemist who invented poly-paraphenylene terephtalamide—better known as Kevlar. She was born in the Pittsburgh suburb of New Kensington, Pennsylvania. Kwolek has won numerous awards for her...
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| x Elihu Thomson |
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Arc lamp |
Elihu Thomson (March 29, 1853 – March 13, 1937) was an English engineer and inventor who was instrumental in the founding of major electrical companies in the United States, the United Kingdom and France.
He was born in Manchester (England) on 29...
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| x Leopold Mannes | Reversal film |
Leopold Damrosch Mannes (December 26, 1899 – August 11, 1964) was an American musician, who, together with Leopold Godowsky, Jr., created the first practical color transparency film, Kodachrome.
Mannes was born in New York City. He was a son of...
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| x John P. Hogan | Marlex |
John Paul Hogan (August 7, 1919 – February 19, 2012) was an American research chemist. Along with Robert Banks he discovered methods of producing polypropylene and high-density polyethylene.
Hogan was born in Lowes, Kentucky to Charles Franklin and...
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| x George Herman Babcock |
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George Herman Babcock (June 17, 1832 – December 16, 1893) was an American inventor. He and Stephen Wilcox co-invented a safer water tube steam boiler, and founded the Babcock & Wilcox boiler company.
Babcock's water tube steam boiler provided a...
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| x Hugo Borchardt |
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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| x Ray Dolby |
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Dolby noise-reduction system |
Ray Dolby (born January 18, 1933) is the American engineer and 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 of Dolby Laboratories.
Dolby was born in...
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| x Frederick Marriott |
Frederick Marriott (c. 1805 – December 16, 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 ...
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| x 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 firearms designer who developed many varieties of military and civilian firearms, cartridges, and gun mechanisms, many of which are still...
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| x Ernest H. Volwiler |
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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| x Ernő Rubik |
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Rubik's Magic |
Ernő Rubik (Hungarian pronunciation: [ˈrubik ˈɛrnøː]; born July 13, 1944) is a Hungarian inventor, architect and professor of architecture. He is best known for the invention of mechanical puzzles including Rubik's Cube (1974), Rubik's Magic, Rubik...
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| x Eli Whitney |
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Cotton gin |
Eli Whitney (December 8, 1765 – January 8, 1825) was an American inventor best known for inventing the cotton gin. This was one of the key inventions of the Industrial Revolution and shaped the economy of the Antebellum South. Whitney's invention...
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| x Bernhard Baron |
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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| x Alfred Carlton Gilbert |
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Erector Set |
Alfred Carlton Gilbert (February 13, 1884 – 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.
Gilbert...
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| x Casimir Zeglen |
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Kazimierz Żegleń (Casimir Zeglen), born in 1869 near Tarnopol (today Ternopil, Ukraine), invented the first bulletproof vest. At the age of 18 he entered the Resurrectionist Order in Lwow (today Lviv, Ukraine). In 1890, he moved to the United States...
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| x Lester Allan Pelton |
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Lester Allan Pelton (September 5, 1829 – March 14, 1908) was an American inventor who contributed significantly to the development of hydropower and hydroelectric power in the old West and world-wide. In the late 1870's he invented the Pelton water...
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| x Percy Spencer | Microwave oven |
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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| x Frank Whittle |
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Jet engine |
Air Commodore Sir Frank Whittle, OM, KBE, CB, FRS, Hon FRAeS (1 June 1907 – 9 August 1996) was a British Royal Air Force (RAF) engineer officer. He is credited with independently inventing the turbojet engine (some years earlier than Germany's Dr....
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| x Thaddeus Cahill |
Thaddeus Cahill (18 June 1867 – 12 April 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.
He studied the physics...
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| x Etienne Lenoir |
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Internal combustion engine |
Jean Joseph Étienne Lenoir also known as Jean J. Lenoir (12 January 1822 - 4 August 1900) was a Belgian engineer who developed the internal combustion engine in 1858. Prior designs for such engines were patented as early as 1807, but none were...
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| x Norbert Rillieux |
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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| x Bruno Abakanowicz |
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Integraph |
Bruno Abdank-Abakanowicz (October 6, 1852 – August 29, 1900) was a mathematician, inventor and electrical engineer.
Abakanowicz was born in 1852 in Vilkmergė, Lithuania, then part of the Russian Empire. After graduating from the Riga Technical...
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| x 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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| x Alphonse Pénaud |
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Alphonse Pénaud (May 31, 1850 – October 22, 1880), was a 19th-century French pioneer of aviation design and engineering. He was the originator of the use of twisted rubber to power model aircraft, and his 1871 model airplane, which he called the...
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| x Leopold Godowsky, Jr. | Reversal film |
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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| x Charles Martin Hall |
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Charles Martin Hall (December 6, 1863 – December 27, 1914) was an American inventor, music enthusiast, and chemist. He is best known for his invention in 1886 of an inexpensive method for producing aluminium, which became the first metal to attain...
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| x Juanelo Turriano |
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Juanelo Turriano (Italian: Gianello Torriano; born Giovanni Torriani, c. 1500 — 1585) was an Italo-Spanish clockmaker, engineer and mathematician. He was born in Cremona.
Called to Spain in 1529 by Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, he was appointed...
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| x 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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| x Walter Houser Brattain |
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Transistor |
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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| x Richard Steiff | Teddy bear |
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...
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| x Thomas Blanchard |
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Thomas Blanchard (June 24, 1788 – April 16, 1864) was an American inventor who lived much of his life in Springfield, Massachusetts, where in 1819, he pioneered the assembly line style of mass production in America, and also invented the major...
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| x William Shockley |
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Transistor |
William Bradford Shockley Jr. (February 13, 1910 – August 12, 1989) was an 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 Nobel...
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| x Oliver Evans |
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Oliver Evans (13 September 1755 – 15 April 1819) was an American inventor. Evans was born in Newport, Delaware to a family of Welsh settlers. At the age of 14 he was apprenticed to a wheelwright.
Evans' first invention was in 1777, when he designed...
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| x Elias Howe |
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Sewing machine |
Elias Howe, Jr. (July 9, 1819 – October 3, 1867) was an American inventor and sewing machine pioneer.
Howe was born on July 9, 1819 to Dr. Elias Howe, Sr. and Polly (Bemis) Howe in Spencer, Massachusetts. Howe spent his childhood and early adult...
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| x Thomas Edison |
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Incandescent light bulb | #223898 |
Thomas Alva Edison (February 11, 1847 – October 18, 1931) was an American inventor and businessman. He developed many devices that greatly influenced life around the world, including the phonograph, the motion picture camera, and a long-lasting,...
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| x Theodore von Karman |
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Theodore von Kármán (original Hungarian name: Szőllőskislaki Kármán Tódor) (May 11, 1881 – May 7, 1963) was a Hungarian-American mathematician, aerospace engineer and physicist who was active primarily in the fields of aeronautics and astronautics....
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| x Frank J. Sprague |
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Frank Julian Sprague (July 25, 1857 in Milford, Connecticut - October 25, 1934) was an American naval officer and inventor who contributed to the development of the electric motor, electric railways, and electric elevators. His contributions were...
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| x Samuel Colt |
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Colt Paterson |
Samuel Colt (July 19, 1814 – January 10, 1862) was an American inventor and industrialist from Hartford, Connecticut. He was the founder of Colt's Patent Fire-Arms Manufacturing Company (now known as Colt's Manufacturing Company), and made the mass...
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| x Edwin H. Land |
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Instant camera |
Edwin Herbert Land (May 7, 1909 – March 1, 1991) was an American scientist and inventor, best known as the co-founder of the Polaroid Corporation. Among other things, he invented inexpensive filters for polarizing light, a practical system of in...
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| x Ole Evinrude | Outboard motor |
Ole Evinrude, born Ole Evenrudstuen (April 19, 1877 – July 12, 1934) was a Norwegian-American inventor, known for the invention of the first outboard motor with practical commercial application.
Ole Evinrude was born in Vardal (now Gjøvik), in...
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| x Carl Friedrich Meerwein |
Carl Friedrich Meerwein (2 August 1737, in Leiselheim, – 6 December 1810, in Emmendingen) was a German civil engineer and aviation pioneer.
He built flying devices with moving wings. According to the Encyclopædia Britannica he succeeded in flying...
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| x Erastus Brigham Bigelow |
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Erastus Brigham Bigelow (April 2, 1814 – December 6, 1879) was an American inventor of weaving machines.
Erastus Bigelow was born in West Boylston, Massachusetts. He was the son of a cotton weaver, and it was his parents' desire that he should...
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| x John Lloyd Wright |
John Lloyd Wright (December 12, 1892–December 20, 1972) was an American architect and toy inventor. He invented Lincoln Logs in 1916. He was the son of Frank Lloyd Wright and brother of Lloyd Wright.
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| x Ottmar Mergenthaler |
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Ottmar Mergenthaler (May 11, 1854 – October 28, 1899) was an inventor who has been called a second Gutenberg because of his invention of the Linotype machine, the first device that could easily and quickly set complete lines of type for use in...
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| x Almon Strowger |
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Almon Brown Strowger (Penfield, New York, United States, Feb 11, 1839 – St. Petersburg, Florida, United States, May 26, 1902) gave his name to the electromechanical telephone exchange technology that his invention and patent inspired.
Strowger was...
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| x Charles Kettering |
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Delco ignition system |
Charles Franklin Kettering (August 29, 1876 – November 24 or November 25, 1958) was an American inventor, engineer, businessman, and the holder of 186 patents. He was a founder of Delco, and was head of research for General Motors for 27 years from...
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| x Niels Christensen | O-ring |
Niels Christensen (1865-1952) was a Danish-American inventor whose principal invention was the O-ring, the ubiquitous hydraulic seal.
Niels Anton Christensen was born on a farm in Tørring-Uldum Municipality, Denmark. He showed an early aptitude for...
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| x William Dickson |
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William Kennedy Laurie Dickson (3 August 1860 – 28 September 1935) was a French-born Scot inventor who devised an early motion picture camera under the employment of Thomas Edison (post-dating the work of Louis Le Prince).
Dickson was born on 3...
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| x Lloyd Hall |
Lloyd Augustus Hall (June 20, 1894 - January 2, 1971) was an African American chemist who contributed to the science of food preservation. By the end of his career, Hall had amassed 59 United States patents, and a number of his inventions were also...
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| x Edmund Germer |
Edmund Germer (August 24, 1901 in Berlin - August 10, 1987) was a German inventor recognized as the father of the fluorescent lamp. He applied for a patent with Friedrich Meyer and Hans J. Spanner on December 10, 1926, which led to U.S. Patent 2,182...
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| x Richard March Hoe |
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Richard March Hoe (September 12, 1812 - June 7, 1886), was an American inventor who designed an improved printing press.
Hoe was born in New York City. He was the son of Robert Hoe (1784–1833), an English-born American mechanic who, with his...
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| x Chester Carlson | Xerography |
Chester Floyd Carlson (February 8, 1906 – September 19, 1968) was an American physicist, inventor, and patent attorney born in Seattle, Washington.
He is best known for having invented the process of electrophotography, which produced a dry copy...
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| x Johann Puch |
Johann Puch (Slovene: Janez Puh) (June 27, 1862 in Sakušak near Ptuj – July 19, 1914 in Zagreb ) was an inventor and mechanic who went on to become a very significant vehicle producer in Europe. He completed special training as a locksmith (his only...
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