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Born	April 5, 1951 (age 75) • New York
Inventions	Segway Personal Transporter

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Ray Kurzweil

American computer scientist and futurist

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Harold Rosen

American engineer

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Robert Moog

American electrical engineer

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Frederick W. Taylor

American inventor and engineer

Shockley

William B. Shockley

American physicist

John Ericsson, detail of an oil painting by Charles Loring Elliott; in the Science Museum, London.

John Ericsson

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Nathan Read

American engineer and inventor

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Elisha King Root

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Jack Kilby

American engineer

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George Robert Stibitz

American mathematician and inventor

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Jay Wright Forrester

American engineer

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Robert H. Dennard

American engineer

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Sir Christopher Cockerell

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Leonardo da Vinci

Italian artist, engineer, and scientist

Alfred Nobel

Alfred Nobel

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Richard Trevithick, detail of an oil painting by John Linnell, 1816; in the Science Museum, London.

Richard Trevithick

British engineer and inventor

Robert William Thomson, Scottish inventor; engraving after a photograph, 1873.

Robert William Thomson

Scottish engineer and entrepreneur

Diesel, 1883

Rudolf Diesel

German engineer

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Georges Claude

French engineer

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Thomas Newcomen

British engineer and inventor

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