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Born	January 11, 1895 • Evanston • Illinois
Died	July 1, 1973 (aged 78) • Cornwall • Connecticut

Steinway, Henry Engelhard

Henry Engelhard Steinway

American piano maker

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Robert Hope-Jones

British-American organ maker

A pianoforte by Bartolomeo Cristofori

Bartolomeo Cristofori

Italian harpsichord maker

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Theobald Boehm

German musician and composer

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Johann Andreas Stein

German piano craftsman

Sax, lithograph by Auguste Bry after a portrait by Charles Baugniet, 1844

Adolphe Sax

Belgian inventor

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Sébastien Érard

French musical instrument maker

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Johann Christoph Denner

German musician

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Rudolph Wurlitzer

American musical instrument maker

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Orville Wright

American aviator

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Farny Reginald Wurlitzer

American musical instrument maker

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Howard Eugene Wurlitzer

American musical instrument maker

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Wilbur Wright

American aviator

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Sigurd F. Varian

American engineer

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Russell H. Varian

American physicist

Watch a silent short of Thomas Edison, who invented the phonograph and incandescent electric light

Thomas Edison

American inventor

Henry Ford

Henry Ford

American industrialist

Portrait of Alexander Graham Bell with white hair and beard, wearing a suit and patterned tie, looking directly at the camera.

Alexander Graham Bell

British-American inventor

Theodore von Kármán

Theodore von Kármán

American engineer

American industrialist and inventor of the Pullman sleeping car George M. Pullman

George M. Pullman

American industrialist and inventor