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Mary Golda Ross
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Alexander Girard
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Charlotte Perriand
French designer
Igor Sikorsky
Igor Sikorsky
American engineer
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Eva Zeisel
Hungarian American designer and ceramicist
Tsiolkovsky, Konstantin Eduardovich
Konstantin Tsiolkovsky
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Anni Albers
German-born textile designer
Terence Conran
Terence Conran
British designer and entrepreneur
John A. Roebling
John Augustus Roebling
American engineer
Philippe Starck: Costes chair
Philippe Starck
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James Dyson
James Dyson
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Raymond Loewy.
Raymond Loewy
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Andrey N. Tupolev, Soviet aircraft designer, 1968.
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Charles Harrison
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Christopher Dresser
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Dreyfuss, Henry
Henry Dreyfuss
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