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Facts

Also Known As Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Geissler
Born May 26, 1815 • Germany
Died January 24, 1879 (aged 63) • Bonn • Germany
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Werner von Siemens, drawing by Ismael Gentz, 1887
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Robert Bunsen
Robert Bunsen
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Gottlieb Daimler
Gottlieb Daimler
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Nikolaus Otto, c. 1868
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Guglielmo Marconi
Guglielmo Marconi
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James Watt
James Watt
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Richard Trevithick, detail of an oil painting by John Linnell, 1816; in the Science Museum, London.
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Philo Farnsworth
Philo Farnsworth
American inventor
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Alessandro Volta
Alessandro Volta
Italian physicist
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Robert Morris Page
American physicist
John Ericsson, detail of an oil painting by Charles Loring Elliott; in the Science Museum, London.
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