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Born April 5, 1951 (age 74) • New York
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Harold Rosen
American engineer
Robert Moog
American electrical engineer
Frederick W. Taylor
American inventor and engineer
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William B. Shockley
American physicist
John Ericsson, detail of an oil painting by Charles Loring Elliott; in the Science Museum, London.
John Ericsson
Swedish-American engineer
Nathan Read
American engineer and inventor
Elisha King Root
American inventor, engineer, and manufacturer
Jack Kilby
American engineer
George Robert Stibitz
American mathematician and inventor
Ray Kurzweil
American computer scientist and futurist
Jay Wright Forrester
American engineer
Robert H. Dennard
American engineer
Sir Christopher Cockerell
British inventor
Leonardo da Vinci: self-portrait
Leonardo da Vinci
Italian artist, engineer, and scientist
Alfred Nobel
Alfred Nobel
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Richard Trevithick, detail of an oil painting by John Linnell, 1816; in the Science Museum, London.
Richard Trevithick
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Robert William Thomson, Scottish inventor; engraving after a photograph, 1873.
Robert William Thomson
Scottish engineer and entrepreneur
Diesel, 1883
Rudolf Diesel
French-German engineer
Georges Claude
French engineer
Thomas Newcomen
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