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29 Cards in this Set
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Francis Beaufort
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Beaufort scale; wind force scale named after him (French)
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Alexander Graham Bell
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telephone (American)
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Karl Benz
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petrol-powered automobile (German)
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Tim Berners-Lee
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with Robert Calliau, www (English)
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Louis Brailee
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Braille writing system (French)
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Gottlieb Daimler
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first high speed internal combustion engine (German)
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Leonardo Da Vinci
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conceptualized a helicopter, painted the Mona Lisa, advanced anatomy, etc. (Italian)
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Rudolf Diesel
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first internal combustion engine using fuel oil instead of gasoline (German)
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Thomas Alva Edison
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lightbulb, phonograph (American)
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Albert Einstein
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theory of relativity (German)
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Doulas Engelbart
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the computer mouse (American)
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Enrico Fermi
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one of the first developers of the nuclear reactor (Italian)
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Alexander Fleming
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penicillin
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Henry Ford
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developed modern assembly lines for mass production (American)
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Benjamin Franklin
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lightening rod (American)
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Galileo Galilei
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improved the telescope, physicist (Italian)
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Johannes Gutenberg
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moveable type, printing press (German)
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Guglielmo Marconi
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wireless radio (Italian)
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Joseph-Michel Montigolfier
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hot air ballon (French)
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Isaac Newton
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reflecting telescope (reduces chromatic aberration) (English)
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Alfred Nobel
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dynamite (Swedish)
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Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen
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x-ray machine (German)
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George Stephenson
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first steam locomotive (English)
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Eli Whitney
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interchangable parts, cotton gin (American)
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Otto Bismarck
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Liberator: Germany
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Simon Bolivar
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Liberator: Venzuela, Peru, Bolivia
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Giuseppe Garibaldi
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Liberator/Unifier: Italy
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Bernardo O'Higgins
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Liberator/Unifier: Chile
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Jose de San Martin
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Liberator/Unifier: Peru, Chile (march across the Andes)
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