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55 Cards in this Set
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Frederick Koenig
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Printing press
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Louis Braille
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Braille printing
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George Eastman
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Invented film
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John Ericsson
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Invented the ship propeller
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Alexander Graham Bell
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Invented the telephone
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Marie Curie
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Discovered Radium
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George Washington Carver
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Invented many uses for peanuts
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Jacob Perkins
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Ice-making machine
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John Deere
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Invented the plow
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Charles Hard Townes
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Invented the laser
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Philo Taylor Farnsworth
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Invented the television
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Samuel F.B. Morse
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Invented the telegraph
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Thomas Edison
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Invented light bulb & much more
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Enrico Fermi
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Controlled nuclear fission
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Alfred Nobel
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Invented dynamite
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Benjamin Franklin
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Discovered electricity, invented Franklin stove and more
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Henry Ford
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Invented assembly line and car
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Elisha Graves Otis
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Invented the elevator brake
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Wright Brothers
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Invented the airplane
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Steve Jobs & Steve Wozniak
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Invented the personal computer
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Thomas Edison
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Phonograph
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Eli Whitney
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Cotton gin
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Thomas Edison
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Movie projector
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B. Thimonnier
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Sewing machine
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L.E. Waterman
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Fountain pen
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W.L. Judson
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Zipper
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W.A. Burt
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Typewriter
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Joseph Aspdin
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Portland cement
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Francois Appert
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Canning
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Robert Bunsen
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Bunsen burner
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Evangelista Torricelli
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Barometer
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Isaac Newton
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Reflecting telescope
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Wilhelm Konrad Rontgen
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X-ray
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Jean-Baptiste Denys
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Blood transfusion
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Percy L. Spencer
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Microwave oven
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John Gorrie
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Refrigerating machine
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Christiaan Huygens
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Pendulum clock
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Galileo
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Thermometer
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Willem Kolff
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Artificial heart
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Dresser
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Aspirin
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Rudolph Diesel
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Diesel engine
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Montgolfier brothers
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Balloon
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James Watt
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Steam Engine
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Edmund Halley
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Diving bell
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J.B. Dunlop
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Air-inflated rubber tire
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John Fitch
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Steamboat
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George Stephenson
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Railway locomotive
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Karl D. Sauerbronn
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Bicycle
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J. Robert Oppenheimer
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Atomic bomb
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Garrett A. Morgan
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Traffic Signal
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Igor Sikorsky
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Helicopter
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Samuel Colt
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Revolver
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Solar cell
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D.M. Chaplin, C.S. Fuller, G.L. Pearson
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David Bushnell
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Submarine
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Christopher Cockerell
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Hovercraft
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