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Ettore Sottsass
Italian industrial designer
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J. Frank Duryea
American inventor
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Charles E. Duryea
American inventor
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Charles Eames
American designer
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Ray Eames
American designer
Charlotte Perriand: 1928 dining room
Charlotte Perriand
French designer
A photograph of Igor Sikorsky holding a model aircraft.
Igor Sikorsky
American engineer
Enzo Ferrari
Enzo Ferrari
Italian automobile manufacturer
Lina Bo Bardi: Art Museum of São Paulo
Lina Bo Bardi
Brazilian architect and industrial designer
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
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Eva Zeisel
Hungarian American designer and ceramicist
Alexander Girard
Alexander Girard
American architect and designer
Philippe Starck: Costes chair
Philippe Starck
French designer
Tsiolkovsky, Konstantin Eduardovich
Konstantin Tsiolkovsky
Russian scientist
Mary Golda Ross
Mary Golda Ross
Native American engineer
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Yves Béhar
Swiss-born industrial designer
Terence Conran
Terence Conran
British designer and entrepreneur
John A. Roebling
John Augustus Roebling
German-born American engineer
James Dyson
James Dyson
British inventor and industrial designer
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Anni Albers
German-born textile designer