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Technology and Engineering Atlas is a cross-referenced encyclopedia of invention and the built world, from machines, materials, and methods to bridges, circuits, and beyond. Search any invention and follow its threads through everything it made possible.

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Inventions

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Movable Type Printing
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Radar
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Radio
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Television
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The Airplane
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The Analytical Engine
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The Automobile
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The Computer
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The Dialysis Machine
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The Electric Motor
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The Integrated Circuit
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The Internal Combustion Engine
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The Internet
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The Jacquard Loom
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The Laser
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The Lithium-Ion Battery
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The Magnetic Compass
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The Mechanical Clock
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The Microprocessor
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The Optical Fiber
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The Printing Press
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The Steam Engine
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The Telegraph
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The Telephone
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The Transistor
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The Wheel
4 links
The World Wide Web
4 links

Engineers

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Ada Lovelace
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Akira Yoshino
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Alan Turing
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Alexander Graham Bell
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Alexander Hrennikoff
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Alexander Popov
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Alphonse Beau de Rochas
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Antonio Meucci
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Archimedes
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Bi Sheng
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Bill Smith
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Bob Kahn
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Charles Babbage
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Charles Goodyear
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Charles K. Kao
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Charles Wheatstone
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Christian Hulsmeyer
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Chuck Hull
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Clifford Berry
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Elisha Gray
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Fazlur Rahman Khan
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Federico Faggin
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Frank Whittle
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Frederick Winslow Taylor
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Friedrich Wohler
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Gordon Gould
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Gottlieb Daimler
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Grace Hopper
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Guglielmo Marconi
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Hans Christian Orsted
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Hans von Ohain
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Hedy Lamarr
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Imhotep
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Isambard Kingdom Brunel
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Ivan Sutherland
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J. Presper Eckert
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Jack Kilby
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James Watt
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Johannes Gutenberg
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John Atanasoff
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John Bardeen
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John Goodenough
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John H. Hall
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John Krafcik
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John Logie Baird
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John Mauchly
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John von Neumann
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Joseph Marie Jacquard
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Karl Benz
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Konrad Zuse
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M. Stanley Whittingham
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Moritz von Jacobi
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Nikola Tesla
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Nikolaus Otto
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Orville Wright
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Philo Farnsworth
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Ray Holt
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Ray W. Clough
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Richard Courant
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Robert Fulton
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Robert Noyce
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Robert Watson-Watt
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Samuel Morse
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Simeon North
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Stephanie Kwolek
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Taiichi Ohno
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Theodore Maiman
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Thomas Davenport
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Thomas Hancock
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Thomas Newcomen
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Thomas Savery
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Tim Berners-Lee
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Vint Cerf
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Vladimir Zworykin
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W. Edwards Deming
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Walter A. Shewhart
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Walter Brattain
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Wilbur Wright
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Willem Kolff
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William Fothergill Cooke
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William Shockley
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Winston W. Royce
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Materials

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Aluminum
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Borosilicate Glass
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Brass
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Bronze
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Carbon Fiber
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Cast Iron
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Cement
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Ceramics
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Concrete
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Copper
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Duralumin
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Fiberglass
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Gallium Arsenide
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Glass
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Graphene
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Invar
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Kevlar
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Lithium Cobalt Oxide
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Nickel
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Nylon
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Plastics
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Polycarbonate
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Polyethylene
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Portland Cement
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Rare Earth Elements
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Rubber
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Silicon
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Silicon Carbide
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Stainless Steel
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Steel
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Titanium
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Tungsten Carbide
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Wrought Iron
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Methods

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Additive Manufacturing
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Agile Software Development
3 links
Annealing
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Anodizing
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Canal Irrigation
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Canal Lock Engineering
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Casting
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CNC Machining
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Computer-Aided Design
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Containerization
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Continuous Integration
4 links
Electroplating
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Finite Element Analysis
6 links
Forging
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Galvanizing
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Industrial Fermentation
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Injection Molding
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Interchangeable Parts
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Lean Manufacturing
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Mass Production
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Photolithography
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Quality Control
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Reverse Engineering
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Scientific Management
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Semiconductor Doping
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Sintering
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Six Sigma
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Smelting
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The Assembly Line
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The Blast Furnace
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Vulcanization
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Waterfall Model
3 links
Welding
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History of technology

Who should be credited as radar's inventor: Christian Hulsmeyer's 1904 patent, Robert Watson-Watt's 1935 Daventry Experiment, or one of the other near-simultaneous 1930s national radar programs in Germany, France, the United States or the Soviet Union?

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