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Born May 4, 1874 • Pittsburgh • Pennsylvania
Died December 11, 1941 (aged 67) • Miami • Florida
Armstrong, Edwin H.
Edwin H. Armstrong
American inventor
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William P. Lear
American engineer and industrialist
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George Washington Pierce
American inventor
Alexanderson alternator
Ernst F.W. Alexanderson
American electrical engineer
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Greenleaf Whittier Pickard
American electrical engineer
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Albert Hoyt Taylor
American physicist and radio engineer
Reginald A. Fessenden.
Reginald Aubrey Fessenden
Canadian scientist
Aleksandr Popov, detail of a painting by P.D. Korin
Aleksandr Popov
Russian engineer
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Henry Joseph Round
British engineer and inventor
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Valdemar Poulsen
Danish engineer
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Alexander Meissner
Austrian engineer
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Howard K. Smith
American journalist and broadcaster
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Chuck Blore
American broadcaster
Lisa Su stands onstage holding a small black rectangular AMD Ryzen AI Halo computer device in both hands.
Lisa Su
Taiwanese-born American engineer and business executive
Rupert Murdoch wearing glasses, a black suit, white shirt, and black tie, posing at the 2019 Vanity Fair Oscar Party.
Rupert Murdoch
Australian-born American publisher
James Dobson
James Dobson
American religious leader
Vin Scully, wearing a tan suit, sits at a desk with papers and monitors in the announcer's booth overlooking empty seats at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles.
Vin Scully
American sportscaster
Charles Steinmetz.
Charles Proteus Steinmetz
American engineer
Groundbreaking journalist
Dorothy Kilgallen
American journalist
Zworykin, Vladimir
Vladimir Zworykin
American engineer and inventor