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Born December 2, 1906 • Budapest • Hungary
Died December 7, 1977 (aged 71) • Westchester • New York
Television pioneer
John Logie Baird
Scottish engineer
James B. Eads
James B. Eads
American engineer
R. Buckminster Fuller shown with a geodesic dome constructed as the U.S. pavilion at the American Exchange Exhibit, Moscow, 1959
R. Buckminster Fuller
American engineer, architect, and futurist
Zworykin, Vladimir
Vladimir Zworykin
American engineer and inventor
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Jack Kilby
American engineer
Noyce, Robert
Robert Noyce
American engineer
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Harold Rosen
American engineer
John Ericsson, detail of an oil painting by Charles Loring Elliott; in the Science Museum, London.
John Ericsson
Swedish-born American naval engineer and inventor
Allen B. DuMont, 1953.
Allen B. DuMont
American engineer and inventor
Alexanderson alternator
Ernst F.W. Alexanderson
American electrical engineer
Kettering, Charles F.
Charles F. Kettering
American engineer
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J. Presper Eckert
American engineer
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Herbert Thacker Herr
American engineer
James Douglas, oil painting by E.W. Grier, 19th century; in a private collection
James Douglas
American engineer
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Ernst Weber
American engineer
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Robert Livingston Stevens
American engineer
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Ephraim Shay
American inventor
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Nathan Read
American engineer and inventor
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Elisha King Root
American inventor, engineer, and manufacturer
Theodore von Kármán
Theodore von Kármán
American engineer