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German printer
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Alois Senefelder
German lithographer
Firmin Didot
French printer and typesetter
François-Ambroise Didot
French printer and typesetter
Coster, Laurens Janszoon
Laurens Janszoon Coster
Dutch printer and inventor
George Baxter, detail of a pencil drawing by an unknown artist
George Baxter
British engraver and printer
Thomas Jackson Rodman
American inventor
Konrad Zuse
German engineer
Johannes Kepler
Johannes Kepler
German astronomer
Helmholtz.
Hermann von Helmholtz
German scientist and philosopher
Werner Heisenberg
Werner Heisenberg
German physicist and philosopher
William Herschel
William Herschel
British-German astronomer
Wernher von Braun
Wernher von Braun
German-born American engineer
Charles Steinmetz.
Charles Proteus Steinmetz
American engineer
Sir William Siemens, engraving after a portrait by Rudolf Lehmann
Sir William Siemens
British inventor
John A. Roebling
John Augustus Roebling
American engineer
Wankel, Felix; Wankel engine
Felix Wankel
German inventor
Hermann Oberth
German scientist
Johann Philipp Reis
German physicist
Werner von Siemens, drawing by Ismael Gentz, 1887
Werner von Siemens
German electrical engineer