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John Atanasoff transformed the business world and was the predecessor to the Internet.
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John Baird also expand entertainment.
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Orville and Wibur Wright transformed tranportation
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Guglielmo Marconi made something else to make life more enjoyable.
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Karl benz helped increase personal mobility and freedom.
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Powered countless social changes.
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Alexander Graham Bell helped spread communication.
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Horace Wells provided a great leap forward for medicine.
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Edward Jenner protected people from harmful diseases.
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Abraham Darby III builds a pioneering iron bridge at a place now called Ironbridge in England.
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Gottfried Leibniz pioneers the binary number system now used in virtually all computers.
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Bartolomeo Cristofori invents the piano.
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Isaac Newton formulates his three laws of motion.
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Christiaan Huygens develops the pendulum clock
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Galileo Galilei builds a practical telescope and makes new astronomical discoveries.
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Galileo Galilei designs a basic thermometer.
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A Dutch spectacle maker named Zacharias Janssen makes the first compound microscope.
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Gerardus Mercator helps to revolutionize navigation with better mapmaking.
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Johannes Gutenberg pioneers the modern printing press, using rearrangeable metal letters.
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John Froelich started agriculture mechanization.
