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Watch a silent short of Thomas Edison, who invented the phonograph and incandescent electric light
Thomas Edison
American inventor
Kelvin, William Thomson, Baron
William Thomson, Baron Kelvin
Scottish engineer, mathematician, and physicist
Alexander Graham Bell
Alexander Graham Bell
American inventor
Guglielmo Marconi
Guglielmo Marconi
Italian physicist
Samuel F.B. Morse
Samuel F.B. Morse
American artist and inventor
Frederick Bee
American attorney, entrepreneur, and diplomat
Sir William Siemens, engraving after a portrait by Rudolf Lehmann
Sir William Siemens
British inventor
Joseph Henry
Joseph Henry
American physicist
Werner von Siemens, drawing by Ismael Gentz, 1887
Werner von Siemens
German electrical engineer
Russell Sage
American financier
William Wheelwright
American businessman and promoter
David Hughes, engraving by Delzers after a photograph
David Hughes
British-American inventor
Wilhelm Eduard Weber
German physicist
Charles Wheatstone.
Sir Charles Wheatstone
British physicist
Alfred Lewis Vail
American scientist and businessman
Hiram Sibley
American businessman
Sir William Fothergill Cooke
British inventor
Edward Davy
British inventor
Harry Nyquist
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