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Johannes Gutenberg
Inventor & printer
Thomas Edison
Inventor & businessman
Alan Turing
Mathematician & computer scientist
Alexander Graham Bell
Inventor & engineer
Nikola Tesla
Engineer & inventor
Gustave Eiffel
Civil engineer
Wright Brothers
Aviation pioneers & engineers
Michael Faraday
Chemist & physicist
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Henry Ford
Industrialist & engineer
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Isambard Kingdom Brunel
Civil & marine engineer
James Watt
Inventor & engineer
John A. Roebling
Civil engineer
Alfred Nobel
Chemist & inventor
Guglielmo Marconi
Inventor and electrical engineer
Rudolf Diesel
Inventor and mechanical engineer
Carl Benz
Automotive engineer
Grace Hopper
Computer scientist and naval officer
Tim Berners-Lee
Computer scientist
Hedy Lamarr
Actress and inventor
Filippo Brunelleschi
Architect & engineer
Rosalind Picard
Computer scientist
George Washington Carver
Agricultural scientist & inventor
Elijah McCoy
Engineer & inventor
Garrett Morgan
Inventor & businessman
Elisha Otis
Industrialist & inventor
Charles Babbage
Mathematician & inventor
Samuel Morse
Inventor & painter
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