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104 famous people found
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Alexander Graham BELL
Scottish-born scientist, inventor, engineer, and innovator who is credited with patenting the first practical telephone
1847 - 1922 -
Isaac SINGER
American inventor, actor, and entrepreneur, founder of the Singer Sewing Machine Company
1811 - 1875 -
Thomas EDISON
American inventor and businessman
1847 - 1931 -
Alfred NOBEL
Swedish chemist, engineer, innovator, armaments manufacturer and the inventor of dynamite
1833 - 1896 -
Gustave Eiffel
French civil engineer
1832 - 1923 -
Clément ADER
French inventor and engineer
1841 - 1925 -
Emile REYNAUD
French inventor, responsible for the praxinoscope and the first projected animated films
1844 - 1918 -
John Stith PEMBERTON
American biochemist and American Civil War veteran who is best known as the inventor of Coca-Cola
1831 - 1888 -
Joseph DUBONNET
French businessman
1818 - 1871 -
René LAENNEC
French physician
1781 - 1826 -
Louis BRAILLE
French inventor of braille
1809 - 1852 -
John ERICSSON
Swedish-American inventor
1803 - 1889 -
Ambrose BURNSIDE
American soldier, railroad executive, inventor, industrialist, and politician from Rhode Island
1824 - 1881 -
René PANHARD
French engineer, merchant and a pioneer of the automobile industry in France
1841 - 1908 -
Nicolas Joseph CUGNOT
French inventor who built the first working self-propelled land-based mechanical vehicle, the world's first automobile
1725 - 1804 -
Louis Ernest LADURÉE
French baker and pastry chef
1836 - 1904 -
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 -
Ferdinand von ZEPPELIN
German general and later aircraft manufacturer, the founder of the Zeppelin Airship company
1838 - 1917 -
Adolphe SAX
Belgian inventor and musician who created the saxophone
1814 - 1894