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Also Known As Christopher Miner Spencer
Born June 20, 1833 • Manchester • Connecticut
Died January 14, 1922 (aged 88) • Hartford • Connecticut
Inventions Spencer carbine
Subjects Of Study carbine • drop forging
George Eastman, 1926.
George Eastman
American inventor, entrepreneur, and manufacturer
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Herman Hollerith
American inventor
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Leo Fender
American inventor and manufacturer
Hoe, Richard March
Richard March Hoe
American inventor and manufacturer
Leo Baekeland
Leo Baekeland
American chemist
Ransom Eli Olds, c. 1920.
Ransom Eli Olds
American manufacturer
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Elisha King Root
American inventor, engineer, and manufacturer
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Edwin Norton
American inventor and manufacturer
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David Wilkinson
American inventor
Willis Carrier
Willis Carrier
American inventor
Alfred Nobel
Alfred Nobel
Swedish chemist, engineer, and industrialist
James Watt
James Watt
Scottish instrument maker and inventor
Jean-Joseph Étienne Lenoir
(Jean-Joseph-) Étienne Lenoir
Belgian inventor
Spinning jenny
James Hargreaves
English inventor
Werner von Siemens, drawing by Ismael Gentz, 1887
Werner von Siemens
German electrical engineer
Nasmyth, James
James Nasmyth
British engineer
Arkwright, detail of an engraving by J. Jenkins after a portrait by Joseph Wright
Sir Richard Arkwright
British industrialist and inventor
Gottlieb Daimler
Gottlieb Daimler
German engineer and inventor
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Sir John Bennet Lawes, 1st Baronet
English agronomist
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Charles Chubb
British inventor

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