Douglas Engelbart
Douglas Engelbart, a far-sighted person who believed that in order to achieve something you have to be a prompt thinker and a doer. His work backed up his thoughts.
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Dmitri Mendeleev
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Dennis Ritchie
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Dean Kamen
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Cyrus McCormick
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Christiaan Huygens
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Charles Simonyi
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Charles Lindbergh
Charles Augustus Lindbergh was an American aviator, inventor and writer who made the first solo non-stop flight across the Atlantic in 1927.
Charles Goodyear
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Charles Francis Jenkins
Charles Francis Jenkins was a prolific American inventor of the twentieth century. He is widely credited to be one of the inventors of mechanical television and an early pioneer in the field of motion pictures and cinema.