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Born December 25, 1878 • La Chaux-de-Fonds • Switzerland
Died June 6, 1941 (aged 62) • Detroit • Michigan

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Enzo Ferrari
Italian automobile manufacturer
Charles E. Duryea
American inventor
J. Frank Duryea
American inventor
Leland, Henry M.
Henry M. Leland
American engineer and manufacturer
Ransom Eli Olds, c. 1920.
Ransom Eli Olds
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Lanchester
Frederick William Lanchester
British engineer
Wilhelm Maybach
German engineer and manufacturer
Gottlieb Daimler
Gottlieb Daimler
German engineer and inventor
René Panhard
French engineer
Lord Austin, 1937
Herbert Austin, Baron Austin
British industrialist
Ray Eames
American designer
Charles Eames
American designer
John Zachary DeLorean
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Henry Ford
Henry Ford
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Igor Sikorsky
Igor Sikorsky
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Walter P. Chrysler
Walter P. Chrysler
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John A. Roebling
John Augustus Roebling
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Sloan, Alfred P., Jr.
Alfred P. Sloan, Jr.
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Patricia Russo
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Lee Iacocca
Lee Iacocca
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