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Darrell Edward Issa (/ˈaɪsə/; born November 1, 1953) is the Republican U.S. Representative for California’s 49th congressional district, serving since 2001. The district (numbered the 48th District during his first term) covers the northern coasta
Karl Friedrich Benz ( ; November 25, 1844 – April 4, 1929) was a German engine designer and engineer, generally regarded as the inventor of the first automobile powered by an internal combustion engine, and together with Bertha Benz, pioneering
William Kennedy Laurie Dickson (3 August 1860 – 28 September 1935) was a Scottish inventor who devised an early motion picture camera under the employment of Thomas Edison (post-dating the work of Louis Le Prince).
Andrew J. Toti (24 July 1915 – 20 March 2005) was a world-renowned American inventor. Toti was born in Visalia, California, and died in Modesto, California. He held more than 500 U.S. patents at the time of his death. Toti was honored by the Edison
Felix Trombe (1906 in Nogent, France – 1985 in Ganties, France) was a French engineer.
Emmett f. Chappelle (born 25 October 1925) is a scientist who made valuable contributions in the fields of medicine, philanthropy, food science, and Astro chemistry.
John Nissen is scientist, inventor, technologist, musician and philosopher. He was a music scholar at Bryanston and a student at Clare College, Cambridge where he obtained a degree in Natural Sciences.
Bette Nesmith Graham (March 23, 1924 – May 12, 1980) was an American typist, commercial artist, and the inventor of white-out. She was also the mother of musician and producer Michael Nesmith of The Monkees.
Otis Bobby Boykin (August 29, 1920, Dallas, Texas – March 13, 1982, Chicago, Illinois) was an African-American inventor and engineer.
Leonid Nikolaevich Gobyato (Russian: Леонид Николаевич Гобято) (6 February 1875 – 21 May 1915) was a lieutenant-general (awarded posthumously in 1915) in the Imperial Russian Army and designer of the modern, man-portable morta
Paris Theodore (January 9, 1943—November 16, 2006) was an American inventor of innovative gun holsters and state-of-the-art firearms and shooting techniques used by government agents and police departments in the U.S. and abroad, as well as by the