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Inventors, engineers and architects who built the machines, networks and skylines.

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Nikola Tesla 1856–1943Technology & InventionSerbian-American inventor who developed alternating current electrical systems and numerous electrical innovations.Robert Noyce 1927–1990Technology & InventionCo-inventor of the integrated circuit and co-founder of Intel, earning him the title Mayor of Silicon Valley.Robert H. Goddard 1882–1945Technology & InventionBuilt and launched the first liquid-fueled rocket and patented foundational rocket propulsion methods.William Shockley 1910–1989Technology & InventionCo-inventor of the transistor at Bell Labs, earning the Nobel Prize and launching the semiconductor age.Jack Kilby 1923–2005Technology & InventionCo-inventor of the integrated circuit, a foundational innovation that made modern electronics possible.Theodore von Karman 1881–1963Engineering & ArchitectureAerodynamics, the Karman vortex street, and the founding of JPLWalter Brattain 1902–1987Technology & InventionThe experimentalist whose hands built the first working transistor, at Bell Labs in December 1947.CCChester Carlson 1906–1968Technology & InventionPhysicist who invented xerography, the technology behind the modern photocopier.Howard Aiken 1900–1973Engineering & ArchitecturePhysicist and engineer who designed the Harvard Mark I, an early electromechanical computer.John Atanasoff 1903–1995Technology & InventionPhysicist who built the first electronic digital computer, the Atanasoff-Berry Computer.