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American inventor who designed the Clermont, the first commercially successful steamboat in 1807, and first steam warship, Demologos, in 1815

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George Stephenson

English engineer whose Rocket, one of the first steam locomotives, won a competition by traveling from Manchester to the port of Liverpool at a record-breaking 16 mph in 1829

Image: George Stephenson

French inventor of the first practical photographic process, the daguerreotype, widely used during the 1840s and 1850s

Image: Louis Daguerre

Samuel F.B. Morse

American inventor who developed the telegraph during the 1830s-1840s

Image: Samuel F.B. Morse

Isambard Kingdom Brunel

English engineer who built the SS Great Western, the first transatlantic steamship, in 1838

Image: Isambard Kingdom Brunel

refrigerated railcar

railroad rolling stock designed in 1860s-1870s to carry perishable beef, pork, fruit, and other foods

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artificial waterway through Egypt connecting the Red Sea and the Mediterranean Sea opened in 1869; designed by French engineer Ferdinand de Lesseps with British financial investment; led to British conquest of Egypt in 1882

Image: Suez Canal

Transcontinental Railroad

American rail route from Omaha, Nebraska to San Francisco, California completed in 1869; connected American East and West coasts and increased rapid settlement of the West

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Alexander Graham Bell

Scottish-American inventor of the telephone in 1876

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German engineer who built the first three-wheeled internal combustion engine automobile in 1885

Image: Karl Benz

American inventor of the Kodak camera in 1888; made photography easier and more affordable

Image: George Eastman

Lumiere brothers

French inventors and pioneers an early movie camera and projector; opened first motion picture exhibition hall in 1895

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Ferdinand von Zeppelin

German engineer who designed dirigible airships that first flew in 1900

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Guglielmo Marconi

Italian engineer who discovered radio waves and designed the first radio in 1901

Image: Guglielmo Marconi

Orville and Wilbur Wright

American bicycle mechanics from Dayton, Ohio who flew a plane at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina on December 17, 1903

Image: Orville and Wilbur Wright