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Also Known As Okazaki Gorōnyūdō
Born 1264? • Japan
Died 1343? • Kamakura • Japan
Founder Sōshū school
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John Chipman
American chemist and metallurgist
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Alexander Lyman Holley
American metallurgist and mechanical engineer
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Peter Vischer, the Elder
German artist
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Amelia zur Helle Thyssen
German industrialist and philanthropist
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August Thyssen
German industrialist
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Antonio del Pollaiuolo
Italian artist
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Piero del Pollaiuolo
Italian artist
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Philippe Caffiéri
French sculptor
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Jacques Caffiéri
French sculptor
Lomonosov, Mikhail
Mikhail Lomonosov
Russian author and scientist
Andrew Carnegie
Andrew Carnegie
Scottish-born American industrialist and philanthropist
Georgius Agricola.
Georgius Agricola
German scholar and scientist
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Eva Zeisel
Hungarian American designer and ceramicist
saltcellar of Francis I
Benvenuto Cellini
Italian artist
Henry Bessemer
Henry Bessemer
English inventor and engineer
Sir William Siemens, engraving after a portrait by Rudolf Lehmann
Sir William Siemens
German-born English engineer and inventor
A photo of Jamsetji Tata.
Jamsetji Tata
Indian industrialist
Schwab, Charles M.
Charles M. Schwab
American manufacturer
Fabergé cigarette box
Peter Carl Fabergé
Russian jeweler
John A. Roebling
John Augustus Roebling
German-born American engineer