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  Armstrong, Edwin H
Babbage, Charles
Baird, John Logie
Bell, Alexander, Graham
Berliner, Emile
Bessemer, Henry
Brunel, Isambard Kingdom
Colt, Samuel
Crompton, Samuel
Edison, Thomas Alva
Franklin, Benjamin
  Goodyear, Charles
Guillotin, Joseph Ignace
Hackworth, Timothy
Heron of Alexandria
Holland, John
Kay, John
Lake, Simon
Marconi, Guglielmo
Meucci, Antonio Santi Giuseppe
Morse, Samuel Finley Breese
Murdoch, William
  Phelps, George
Pope, Frank
Strauss, Josef
Telford, Thomas
Tesla, Nikola
Trevithick, Richard
Watt, James
Westinghouse, George
Whitney, Eli
Whitworth, Sir Joseph
Wright Brothers


structurae: Gustave Eiffel
Images, biography, works, references and links.

Martin, Horace G.
Created a semi-automatic key to help prevent the development of telegrapher paralysis, created by the daily abuse of manipulating a manual machine key. Page includes history of the man and the spread of this invention across the United States.

Pioneers of The Machine Tool Industry
Features backgrounds of early entrepreneurs from early Egyptians, Leonardo da Vinci to modern United Kingdom personalities, such as Alfred Herbert and Axel Wickman.

Denk, Robert
The inventor of the tubeless radio used an unknown solid-state effect, which was never rediscovered.

Ephraimshay.com
Features transcriptions of diary entries that pertain to the making of his invention, the Shay locamotive engine. Page includes related resource links.

Nobel, Alfred - Man Behind the Prizes
Information from the official Nobel Prize site.

Grigori T. Rudenko
Russian inventor of the mechanical artificial hand prosthesis. Page gives background of this war veteran and patent document photos.


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