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Armstrong, Edwin H	Babbage, Charles@	Baird, John Logie@	Bell, Alexander, Graham	Berliner, Emile	Bessemer, Henry
Brunel, Isambard Kingdom@	Computer Pioneers@	Crompton, Samuel@	Edison, Thomas Alva	Franklin, Benjamin@	Guillotin, Joseph Ignace@
Hackworth, Timothy	Heron of Alexandria	Holland, John	Kay, John@	Lake, Simon	Marconi, Guglielmo
Meucci, Antonio Santi Giuseppe	Morse, Samuel Finley Breese	Murdoch, William	Phelps, George@	Pope, Frank	Strauss, Josef@
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	structurae: Gustave Eiffel URL: http://www.structurae.de/en/people/data/des0009.html ODP description: Images, biography, works, references and links. Page title: Structurae [en]: Gustave Alexandre Eiffel (1832-1923) Page description: Gustave Eiffel (Gustave Alexandre Eiffel) (1832-1923): French engineer and entrepreneur responsible for the construction of bridges the world over, but most notably the famous tower bearing his name and the inner support structure of the Statue of Liberty.; biography, list of executed works (structures actually built), bibliography, references, relevant literature and links and other details about this person.
	Ephraimshay.com URL: http://www.ephraimshay.com/ ODP description: Features transcriptions of diary entries that pertain to the making of his invention, the Shay locamotive engine. Page includes related resource links. Page title: ephraimshay.com Page description: This is a biography web site for Ephraim Shay, inventor of the Shay Locomotive.
	Nobel, Alfred - Man Behind the Prizes URL: http://nobelprize.org/alfred_nobel/ ODP description: Information from the official Nobel Prize site. Page title: Alfred Nobel
	Martin, Horace G. URL: http://www.telegraph-history.org/horace-g-martin/ ODP description: Created a semi-automatic key to help prevent telegrapher paralysis, created by the daily abuse of manipulating a manual Morse telegraph key. Includes biography and the spread of this invention across the United States. Page description: the life and career of Horace G Martin
	Life of John Fitch URL: http://www.history.rochester.edu/steam/westcott/ ODP description: The inventor of the steam boat. Full text of thus 1857 publication by Thompson Westcott.
	Denk, Robert URL: http://www.benduhn.homepage.t-online.de/denk/summary.html ODP description: The inventor of the tubeless radio used an unknown solid-state effect, which was never rediscovered. Page title: Robert Denk's invention of the tubeless receiver
	Gorrie's Fridge URL: http://www.phys.ufl.edu/~ihas/gorrie/fridge.htm ODP description: An early pioneer in the invention of the artificial manufacture of ice.

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