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Also Known As James Hargraves
Baptized January 8, 1721
Died April 22, 1778 • Nottingham • England
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Sir John Bennet Lawes, 1st Baronet
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Thaddeus Fairbanks
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Alfred Nobel
Alfred Nobel
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James Watt
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Scottish inventor
Werner von Siemens, drawing by Ismael Gentz, 1887
Werner von Siemens
German electrical engineer
George Eastman, 1926.
George Eastman
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Herman Hollerith
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Nasmyth, James
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Leo Fender
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Gottlieb Daimler
Gottlieb Daimler
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Leo Baekeland
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Charles Chubb
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internal-combustion engine
Étienne Lenoir
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Hilaire Bernigaud, count de Chardonnet
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Christopher M. Spencer
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Edwin Norton
American inventor and manufacturer
Elisha King Root
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