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Born February 5, 1840 • Scotland
Died October 23, 1921 (aged 81) • Dublin • Ireland
Robert William Thomson, Scottish inventor; engraving after a photograph, 1873.
Robert William Thomson
Scottish engineer and entrepreneur
John Charles Walsham Reith, 1st Baron Reith
British businessman
William Symington
British engineer
Sir Donald Currie
British shipowner and politician
Henry Ford
Henry Ford
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George M. Pullman
George M. Pullman
American industrialist and inventor
Danny Hillis
American businessman
Morita Akio
Japanese businessman
Vinton Gray Cerf
Vinton Cerf
American computer scientist
Westinghouse
George Westinghouse
American inventor and industrialist
Elmer Ambrose Sperry
American inventor
Ellen Louise Curtis Demorest
American businesswoman
Herbert H. Dow
American chemist
Isaac Singer
American inventor
Alfred Lewis Vail
American scientist and businessman
David Dunbar Buick
American businessman
Vincent Bendix
American inventor and industrialist
Robert Bosch
German engineer
Opel, Fritz von
Fritz von Opel
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Francis Edward Elmore
English metallurgist