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Henry Ford
Henry Ford
American industrialist
Antoine Lavoisier
Antoine Lavoisier
French chemist
Steve Jobs
Steve Jobs
American businessman
Robert Owen
Robert Owen
British social reformer
George M. Pullman
George M. Pullman
American industrialist and inventor
Alfred Nobel
Alfred Nobel
Swedish inventor
James Watt
James Watt
Scottish inventor
Igor Sikorsky
Igor Sikorsky
American engineer
Walter P. Chrysler
Walter P. Chrysler
American engineer and automobile manufacturer
Howard Hughes
Howard Hughes
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James B. Eads
James B. Eads
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Andrew Carnegie
Andrew Carnegie
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Eli Whitney
Eli Whitney
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Oliver Evans.
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Bill Gates
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Cyrus McCormick
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James Watt as a young man, c1769. Scottish engineer and instrument maker. Invented the modern steam engine which became the main source of power in Britain's textile mills. His engine had a separate condenser in which steam from the cylinder; (see notes)
Weaponry, Energy, and Power Systems Quiz
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