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Also Known As Ben Dover
Born June 18, 1925 • Manila • Philippines
Died January 5, 1995 (aged 69) • Los Angeles • California
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Ed Yost
American engineer
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Kelly Johnson
American aeronautical engineer
Burt Rutan
Burt Rutan
American aircraft and spacecraft designer
Daniel Saul Goldin.
Daniel Goldin
American engineer
Qian Xuesen
Qian Xuesen
Chinese scientist
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Sir Barnes Wallis
British military engineer
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Marcel Dassault
French industrialist
Messerschmitt, 1941
Willy Messerschmitt
German engineer
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Robert Moog
American electrical engineer
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Orville Wright
American aviator
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Wilbur Wright
American aviator
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Herbert Seymour Saffir
American structural engineer
Theodore von Kármán
Theodore von Kármán
American engineer
Jack Parsons
Jack Parsons
American rocket scientist and chemist
A photograph of Igor Sikorsky holding a model aircraft.
Igor Sikorsky
American engineer
James B. Eads
James B. Eads
American engineer
Wernher von Braun
Wernher von Braun
German engineer
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Charles Stark Draper
American engineer
R. Buckminster Fuller shown with a geodesic dome constructed as the U.S. pavilion at the American Exchange Exhibit, Moscow, 1959
R. Buckminster Fuller
American engineer, architect, and futurist
Robert Goddard
Robert Goddard
American professor and inventor