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1
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Invented Artificial heart

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Robert Jarvik

2
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Invented Movable type

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Johann Gutenberg

3
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Invented Safety razor

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King Gillette

4
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Englishman who discovered Australia and Hawaii

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James Cook

5
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Invented Elevator

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Elisha Otis

6
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Invented Aqua-lung

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Jacques Cousteau

7
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Invented Airplane

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Wright brothers

8
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Invented Revolver

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Samuel Colt

9
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Invented Air conditioner

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Willis Carrier

10
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Invented Hamburger

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Salisbury

11
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Invented Dynamite

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Alfred Nobel

12
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Invented Food freezing

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Clarence Birdseye

13
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Explored northern Louisiana Purchase territory

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Lewis and Clark

14
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Invented Compression-ignition engine

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Rudolf Diesel

15
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Invented Thermometer (open column)

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Galileo

16
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Invented Cylinder locks

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Linus Yale

17
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Invented Machine Gun

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Richard Gatling

18
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Invented Phonograph

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Thomas Edison

19
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Spaniard who discovered the Mississippi River

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Hernando de Soto

20
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Invented Submachine gun

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John Thompson

21
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Discovered Electrical resistance laws

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George Ohm

22
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Invented Thermometer (mercury)

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Gabriel Fahrenheit

23
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First to set foot on U.S. mainland (Florida)

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Ponce de Leon

24
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Invented Motion picture machine

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Thomas Edison

25
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Invented Calculus

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Sir Isaac Newton

26
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Invented Wireless

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Guglielmo Marconi

27
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Invented Scissors

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Leonardo da Vinci

28
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Discovered Theory of Relativity

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Albert Einstein

29
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Invented Electric razor

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Jacob Schick

30
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Invented Bifocal lens

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Benjamin Franklin

31
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Discovered Cause of Yellow Fever

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Walter Reed

32
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Invented Telegraph

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Samuel Morse

33
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Invented Kodak camera (hand-held)

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George Eastman

34
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Invented Adding machine

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Blaise Pascal

35
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Invented Railroad sleeping car

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George Pullman

36
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Venetian who explored Asia

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Marco Polo

37
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Invented Hybrid popcorn

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Orville Redenbacher

38
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Discovered Rabies vaccine

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Louis Pasteur

39
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Invented Transistor

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Bell Telephone Labs

40
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Invented Steam engine

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James Watt

41
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Invented Telescope (astronomical)

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Galileo

42
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Invented Electric lamp

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Thomas Edison

43
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First to reach North Pole - 1909

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Robert Peary and Matthew Henson

44
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Invented Computer concept

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Charles Babbage

45
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First person given credit for sailing around the world

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Ferdinand Magellan

46
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Explorer of American southwest; searched for 7 cities of Cibola

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Francisco de Coronado

47
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Invented Earthquake intensity device

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Charles Richter

48
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Invented Vulcanized rubber

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Charles Goodyear

49
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Invented AC generator

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Nicoli Tesla

50
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Discovered Antibodies

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Louis Pasteur

51
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Competitor of Amundsen - died after reaching the South Pole

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Robert Scott

52
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Invented Blind reading system

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Louis Braille

53
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Invented Instant (Polaroid) camera

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Edwin Land

54
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Discoverer of the New World

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Christopher Columbus

55
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Invented Screw

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Archimedes

56
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Norse explorer who first reached Greenland

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Eric the Red

57
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Aztec conqueror

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Hernando Cortez

58
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First explorer to see the Pacific Ocean

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Vasco Nunez de Balboa

59
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Italian map maker/explorer who coined the term “New World”

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Amerigo Vespucci

60
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Invented Lightning rod

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Benjamin Franklin

61
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Discovered Expanding Universe

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Edwin Hubble

62
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Invented Steel making process

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Sir Henry Bessemer

63
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Invented Telephone

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Alexander Graham Bell

64
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Invented Alternator

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Chrysler Corporation