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Steve Jobs
Steve Jobs
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Robert Owen
Robert Owen
British social reformer
George M. Pullman
George M. Pullman
American industrialist and inventor
Alfred Nobel
Alfred Nobel
Swedish inventor
James Watt
James Watt
Scottish inventor
Igor Sikorsky
Igor Sikorsky
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Enzo Ferrari
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Walter P. Chrysler
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Howard Hughes
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James B. Eads
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Andrew Carnegie
Andrew Carnegie
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Eli Whitney
Eli Whitney
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Oliver Evans.
Oliver Evans
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Cyrus McCormick
Cyrus McCormick
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Bertha Benz
Bertha Benz
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White semi truck on the Highway. Truck, lorry, motor vehicle to carry freight or goods or perform special services. Cab, carrier, semis trucks.
Machinery and Manufacturing
James Watt as a young man, c1769. Scottish engineer and instrument maker. Invented the modern steam engine which became the main source of power in Britain's textile mills. His engine had a separate condenser in which steam from the cylinder; (see notes)
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