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157 famous people found
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Pierre-Victor CONTINSOUZA
French industrialist
1872 - 1944 -
Maurice MARTENOT
French cellist, a radio telegrapher during the first World War, and an inventor
1898 - 1980 -
Auguste RATEAU
French engineer
1863 - 1930 -
Paul Weeks LITCHFIELD
President of the Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
1875 - 1959 -
Gustave LYON
French musician
1857 - 1936 -
Conrad SCHLUMBERGER
French businessman
1878 - 1936 -
Marcel SCHLUMBERGER
French businessman
1884 - 1953 -
James L. KRAFT
Canadian-American entrepreneur and inventor
1874 - 1953 -
Dorr FELT
American inventor and industrialist who was known for having invented the Comptometer, an early computing device, and the Comptograph, the first printing adding machine
1862 - 1930 -
John Jacob ASTOR IV
American businessman, real estate builder, investor, inventor, writer, lieutenant colonel in the Spanish-American War, and a prominent member of the Astor family
1864 - 1912 -
Robert H. GODDARD
American Engineer, professor, physicist, and inventor who is credited with creating and building the world's first liquid-fueled rocket
1882 - 1945 -
A. Atwater KENT
American inventor and prominent radio manufacturer
1873 - 1949 -
James Buchanan EADS
American civil engineer and inventor, holding more than 50 patents
1820 - 1887 -
Horace SMITH
American gunsmith, inventor, and businessman, he and his business partner Daniel B. Wesson formed two companies named Smith & Wesson
1808 - 1893 -
Joseph OPINEL
French inventor
1872 - 1960 -
Charles GOODYEAR
American inventor who developed a process to vulcanize rubber
1800 - 1860 -
King C. GILLETTE
American businessman popularly associated with the safety razor
1855 - 1932 -
Gabriel VOISIN
French aviation pioneer
1880 - 1973 -
Charles VOISIN
Early aviation pioneer from France
1882 - 1912 -
Caleb BRADHAM
American pharmacist who invented the soft drink Pepsi-Cola
1867 - 1934