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  2. Thomas Edison - Wikipedia

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    Edison reciting Mary Had a Little Lamb. Recorded 1929. Signature. Thomas Alva Edison (February 11, 1847 – October 18, 1931) was an American inventor and businessman. [1][2][3] He developed many devices in fields such as electric power generation, mass communication, sound recording, and motion pictures. [4]

  3. Gail Borden - Wikipedia

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    Gail Borden. Gail Borden Jr. (November 9, 1801 – January 11, 1874) was an American inventor and manufacturing pioneer. He was born in New York state and settled in Texas in 1829 (then part of Mexico), where he worked as a land surveyor, newspaper publisher, and food company entrepreneur. He created a process in 1853 to make sweetened ...

  4. Benjamin Franklin - Wikipedia

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    Benjamin Franklin (January 17, 1706 [O.S. January 6, 1705] [Note 1] – April 17, 1790) was an American polymath: a leading writer, scientist, inventor, statesman, diplomat, printer, publisher and political philosopher. [1] Among the most influential intellectuals of his time, Franklin was one of the Founding Fathers of the United States; a ...

  5. Thomas L. Jennings - Wikipedia

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    Thomas L. Jennings (c. 1791 – February 12, 1859) was an African-American inventor, tradesman, entrepreneur, and abolitionist in New York City, New York.He has the distinction of being the first African-American patent-holder in history; he was granted the patent in 1821 for his novel method of dry cleaning. [1]

  6. David Bushnell - Wikipedia

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    A diagram of Bushnell's American Turtle. David Bushnell (August 30, 1740 – 1824 or 1826), of Westbrook, Connecticut, was an American inventor, a patriot, a teacher, and a medical doctor. Bushnell invented the first submarine to be used in battle, Turtle, as well as a floating mine triggered by contact. He was a veteran of the Revolutionary War.

  7. Beulah Louise Henry - Wikipedia

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    Beulah Louise Henry (September 28, 1887 – February 01, 1973) was an American inventor whose extensive contributions to consumer products and manufacturing technology solidified her legacy in the field. Born in Raleigh, North Carolina, and later based in New York City, Henry was a pioneering figure who held 49 patents and developed over 110 ...

  8. LaMarcus Adna Thompson - Wikipedia

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    8 March 1848. Edinburgh, Scotland. Died. 8 May 1919. (1919-05-08) (aged 71) American. LaMarcus Adna Thompson (March 8, 1848 – May 8, 1919) was an American inventor and businessman most famous for developing a variety of gravity rides and roller coasters.

  9. Frank J. Sprague - Wikipedia

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    Electrical engineering. Frank Julian Sprague (July 25, 1857 – October 25, 1934) was an American inventor who contributed to the development of the electric motor, electric railways, and electric elevators. His contributions were especially important in promoting urban development by increasing the size cities could reasonably attain (through ...