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48 people, across 5 fields.

Elon Musk b. 1971Technology & InventionEngineer and entrepreneur whose companies have advanced electric vehicles, reusable rockets, and neural interfaces.Orville Wright 1871–1948Technology & InventionCo-inventor of the first successful powered airplane, achieving human flight at Kitty Hawk in 1903.Wilbur Wright 1867–1912Technology & InventionCo-inventor of the first successful powered airplane and pioneer of aeronautical engineering.Nikola Tesla 1856–1943Technology & InventionSerbian-American inventor who developed alternating current electrical systems and numerous electrical innovations.Wernher von Braun 1912–1977Engineering & ArchitectureGerman-American aerospace engineer who led the development of the Saturn V rocket that took humans to the Moon.Robert Fulton 1765–1815Engineering & ArchitectureEngineer and inventor whose steamboat Clermont revolutionized American river transportation.Steve Wozniak b. 1950Technology & InventionCo-founder of Apple who designed the Apple I and Apple II computers, sparking the personal computer revolution.Herbert Hoover 1874–1964PresidentsEngineer and relief administrator whose presidency was consumed by the onset of the Great Depression.Claude Shannon 1916–2001Technology & InventionMathematician and engineer who founded information theory, the basis of all digital communication.Buckminster Fuller 1895–1983Engineering & ArchitecturePopularized the geodesic dome and promoted resource-efficient structural design.Robert H. Goddard 1882–1945Technology & InventionBuilt and launched the first liquid-fueled rocket and patented foundational rocket propulsion methods.Vannevar Bush 1890–1974Technology & InventionBuilt the differential analyzer and directed U.S. wartime research while proposing the Memex concept.Frederick Winslow Taylor 1856–1915Engineering & ArchitectureMechanical engineer who pioneered scientific management, reshaping industrial efficiency worldwide.Vint Cerf b. 1943Technology & InventionCo-designer of the TCP/IP protocols that form the foundation of the internet.Philo Farnsworth 1906–1971Technology & InventionDemonstrated the first fully electronic television system using his image dissector tube.John A. Roebling 1806–1869Engineering & ArchitectureDeveloped wire-rope suspension bridge design and planned the Brooklyn Bridge.Jack Kilby 1923–2005Technology & InventionCo-inventor of the integrated circuit, a foundational innovation that made modern electronics possible.Andrew Grove 1936–2016Business, Finance & IndustryLed Intel through its shift to microprocessors and shaped American technology management practice.Gene Kranz b. 1933Exploration, Aviation & SpaceNASA flight director who led Mission Control through the Apollo 11 landing and the Apollo 13 rescue.Douglas Engelbart 1925–2013Technology & InventionEngineer who invented the computer mouse and demonstrated interactive computing in 1968.Washington Roebling 1837–1926Engineering & ArchitectureEngineer who oversaw the construction of the Brooklyn Bridge after his father's death.John Ericsson 1803–1889Engineering & ArchitectureSwedish-American engineer who designed the ironclad USS Monitor, revolutionizing naval warfare.Willis Carrier 1876–1950Technology & InventionEngineer who invented modern air conditioning, transforming industry, architecture, and daily life.Margaret Hamilton b. 1936Technology & InventionDirected development of the Apollo onboard flight software and popularized the term software engineering.Granville Woods 1856–1910Technology & InventionPatented induction telegraph and electrical systems that improved railway communication and safety.Edwin Howard Armstrong 1890–1954Technology & InventionInvented the regenerative and superheterodyne circuits and frequency modulation radio.Lee de Forest 1873–1961Technology & InventionInvented the Audion triode tube that enabled electronic signal amplification and early radio broadcasting.Bob Kahn b. 1938Technology & InventionCo-inventor of the TCP/IP protocols alongside Vint Cerf, enabling modern digital communication.Hyman G. Rickover 1900–1986Military & National SecurityArchitect of the nuclear Navy who transformed submarine propulsion, naval engineering, and military management.John Mauchly 1907–1980Technology & InventionCo-inventor of ENIAC, the first general-purpose electronic digital computer.Charles Proteus Steinmetz 1865–1923Engineering & ArchitectureElectrical engineer whose work on alternating current systems powered the electrification of America.Kelly Johnson 1910–1990Engineering & ArchitectureLed Lockheed's Skunk Works and designed the U-2 and SR-71 reconnaissance aircraft.Lisa Su b. 1969Technology & InventionCEO of AMD who transformed the semiconductor company into a major competitor to Intel and NVIDIA.Frances Arnold b. 1956Science & MathematicsChemical engineer who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for directed evolution of enzymes.Dean Kamen b. 1951Technology & InventionInventor of the Segway, insulin pump, and water purification systems for the developing world.Lewis Howard Latimer 1848–1928Technology & InventionPatented a durable carbon filament process and drafted key electrical patents for Bell and Edison.Robert Metcalfe b. 1946Technology & InventionCo-invented Ethernet at Xerox PARC and founded 3Com to commercialize local area networking.Joseph Strauss 1870–1938Engineering & ArchitectureChief engineer of the Golden Gate Bridge, one of the most photographed structures in the world.William Le Baron Jenney 1832–1907Engineering & ArchitectureArchitect and engineer who designed the first skyscraper, the Home Insurance Building in Chicago.J. Presper Eckert 1919–1995Technology & InventionCo-inventor of ENIAC and pioneer of electronic computing alongside John Mauchly.Othmar Ammann 1879–1965Engineering & ArchitectureSwiss-American structural engineer who designed the George Washington Bridge and other major spans.Elmer Sperry 1860–1930Engineering & ArchitectureInventor and engineer who developed gyroscopic stabilizers for ships and aircraft.Howard Aiken 1900–1973Engineering & ArchitecturePhysicist and engineer who designed the Harvard Mark I, an early electromechanical computer.FRFazlur Rahman Khan 1929–1982Engineering & ArchitectureDeveloped tubular structural systems that made the Sears Tower and John Hancock Center possible.Federico Faggin b. 1941Technology & InventionLed design of the Intel 4004 microprocessor and later co-founded Zilog.Radia Perlman b. 1951Technology & InventionDesigned the spanning tree protocol that made large bridged Ethernet networks practical.Ralph Modjeski 1861–1940Engineering & ArchitecturePolish-American bridge engineer who designed major spans including the Bay Bridge and Benjamin Franklin Bridge.CBClifford Berry 1918–1963Technology & InventionCo-inventor of the Atanasoff-Berry Computer, the first electronic digital computing device.