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Denk, Robert - http://www.benduhn.homepage.t-online.de/denk/summary.html The inventor of the tubeless radio used an unknown solid-state effect, which was never rediscovered.

Ephraimshay.com - http://www.ephraimshay.com/ Features transcriptions of diary entries that pertain to the making of his invention, the Shay locamotive engine. Page includes related resource links.

Gorrie's Fridge - http://www.phys.ufl.edu/~ihas/gorrie/fridge.htm An early pioneer in the invention of the artificial manufacture of ice.

Life of John Fitch - http://www.history.rochester.edu/steam/westcott/ The inventor of the steam boat. Full text of thus 1857 publication by Thompson Westcott.

Martin, Horace G. - http://www.telegraph-history.org/horace-g-martin/ Created a semi-automatic key to help prevent telegrapher paralysis, created by the daily abuse of manipulating a manual Morse telegraph key. Includes biography and the spread of this invention across the United States.

Nobel, Alfred - Man Behind the Prizes - http://nobelprize.org/alfred_nobel/ Information from the official Nobel Prize site.

structurae: Gustave Eiffel - http://www.structurae.de/en/people/data/des0009.html Images, biography, works, references and links.

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