Satyendra Nath Bose
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Samuel Morse
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Samuel Colt
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Ron Popeil
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Roger Bacon
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Robert Noyce
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Robert Moog
Robert Moog (formally Robert Arthur Moog) is best known as the founder of Moog music and the inventor of the Moog synthesizer . Moog was born in 1934 and lived in New York City for most of his life.
Ruth Handler
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Rudolf Diesel
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Robert Goddard
American physicist and inventor Robert Goddard was the first person to invent and create the world’s first liquid fuel rocket. Born in Massachusetts in 1859, Goddard was interested in engineering and technology from an early age.