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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.
http://www.telegraph-history.org/horace-g-...
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.
http://www.pioneers.historians.co.uk/
Grigori T. Rudenko
Russian inventor of the mechanical artificial hand prosthesis. Page gives background of this war veteran and patent document photos.
http://www.eccentrix.com/members/rudenko/
Denk, Robert
The inventor of the tubeless radio used an unknown solid-state effect, which was never rediscovered.
http://www.benduhn.homepage.t-online.de/de...
Ephraimshay.com
Features transcriptions of diary entries that pertain to the making of his invention, the Shay locamotive engine. Page includes related resource links.
http://www.ephraimshay.com/
Nobel e-Museum: Alfred Nobel
Short biography of the man behind the Nobel Prizes. Includes portraits.
http://nobelprize.org/nobel/alfred-nobel/
structurae: Gustave Eiffel
Images, biography, works, references and links.
http://www.structurae.de/en/people/data/de...
Gorrie's Fridge
An early pioneer in the invention of the artificial manufacture of ice.
http://www.phys.ufl.edu/~ihas/gorrie/fridg...
Life of John Fitch
The inventor of the steam boat. Full text of thus 1857 publication by Thompson Westcott.
http://www.history.rochester.edu/steam/wes...
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Tesla, Nikola
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Franklin, Benjamin
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Baird, John Logie
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Goodyear, Charles
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Wright Brothers
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Computer Pioneers
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Phelps, George
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Lake, Simon
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Edison, Thomas Alva
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Marconi, Guglielmo
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Morse, Samuel Finley Breese
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Berliner, Emile
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Watt, James
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Meucci, Antonio Santi Giuseppe
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Trevithick, Richard
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Whitworth, Sir Joseph
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Telford, Thomas
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Bessemer, Henry
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Bell, Alexander, Graham
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Armstrong, Edwin H
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Pope, Frank
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Westinghouse, George
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Holland, John
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Murdoch, William
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