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46 famous people found
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Dom PERIGNON
French Benedictine monk
1639 - 1715 -
Leonardo DA VINCI
Italian Renaissance polymath: painter, sculptor, architect, musician, scientist, mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, geologist, cartographer, botanist, and writer
1452 - 1519 -
Samuel MORSE
American contributor to the invention of a single-wire telegraph system based on European telegraphs, and co-inventor of the Morse code
1791 - 1872 -
Louis DAGUERRE
French artist and photographer
1787 - 1851 -
René LAENNEC
French physician
1781 - 1826 -
Benjamin FRANKLIN
American author, printer, political theorist, politician, postmaster, scientist, musician, inventor, satirist, civic activist, statesman, and diplomat, and one of the Founding Fathers of the United States of America
1706 - 1790 -
Nicolas Joseph CUGNOT
French inventor who built the first working self-propelled land-based mechanical vehicle, the world's first automobile
1725 - 1804 -
Alexandre FICHET
French engineer
1799 - 1862 -
Étienne de MONTGOLFIER
Inventor of the montgolfière style hot air balloon
1745 - 1799 -
Joseph de MONTGOLFIER
Inventor of the montgolfière style hot air balloon
1740 - 1810 -
Nicéphore NIEPCE
French inventor, most noted as one of the inventors of photography
1765 - 1833 -
Eliphalet REMINGTON
Founder of Remington Arms Co., Inc.
1793 - 1861 -
Marie TUSSAUD
French artist known for her wax sculptures and Madame Tussaud's, the wax museum she founded in London
1761 - 1850 -
Joseph Marie JACQUARD
French weaver and merchant
1752 - 1834 -
Archibald COCHRANE
Scottish nobleman and inventor
1748 - 1831 -
Robert FULTON
Colonial American engineer and inventor who is widely credited with developing the first commercially successful steamboat
1765 - 1815 -
John Loudon MCADAM
Scottish engineer and road-builder, he invented a new process, "macadamisation", for building roads
1756 - 1836 -
Denis PAPIN
French physicist, mathematician and inventor, best known for his pioneering invention of the steam digester, the forerunner of the steam engine, and of the pressure cooker
1647 - 1712 -
Charles GOODYEAR
American inventor who developed a process to vulcanize rubber
1800 - 1860 -
Jean-Charles de BORDA
French mathematician, physicist, political scientist, and sailor
1733 - 1799