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Ray Eames
American designer
J. Frank Duryea
American inventor
Ettore Sottsass
Italian industrial designer
Charles E. Duryea
American inventor
Charles Eames
American designer
Charlotte Perriand: 1928 dining room
Charlotte Perriand
French designer
Igor Sikorsky
Igor Sikorsky
American engineer
Enzo Ferrari
Enzo Ferrari
Italian automobile manufacturer
Lina Bo Bardi: Art Museum of São Paulo
Lina Bo Bardi
Brazilian architect and industrial designer
R. Buckminster Fuller shown with a geodesic dome constructed as the U.S. pavilion at the American Exchange Exhibit, Moscow, 1959
R. Buckminster Fuller
American engineer, architect, and futurist
Eva Zeisel
Hungarian American designer and ceramicist
Alexander Girard
Alexander Girard
American architect and designer
Philippe Starck: Costes chair
Philippe Starck
French designer
Tsiolkovsky, Konstantin Eduardovich
Konstantin Tsiolkovsky
Russian scientist
Mary Golda Ross
Mary Golda Ross
Native American engineer
Yves Béhar
Swiss-born industrial designer
Terence Conran
Terence Conran
British designer and entrepreneur
John A. Roebling
John Augustus Roebling
American engineer
James Dyson
James Dyson
British inventor and industrial designer
Anni Albers
German-born textile designer