People whose cited article describes them first as an inventor who also built a business around the invention, such as a safety razor, a telephone exchange, an engine, a calculator or a microprocessor company. A person belongs here when the article names both the invention or engineering work and the company. It excludes founders and executives the article does not call inventors. The group keeps together people whose engineering skill and commercial drive are described in the same article, so a visitor can compare how different inventors turned a working device into a lasting company.
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Wikipedia, Lars Magnus Ericsson
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Lars Magnus Ericsson (Swedish pronunciation: [lɑːʂ ˈmǎŋːnɵs ˈêːrɪkˌsɔn] ; 5 May 1846-17 December 1926) was a Swedish inventor, entrepreneur and founder of telephone equipment manufacturer Ericsson (incorporated as Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson).
Wikipedia, King C. Gillette
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King Camp Gillette (January 5, 1855, July 9, 1932) was an American businessman who invented a bestselling safety razor and was the founder of the Gillette razor company.
Wikipedia, William Emery Nickerson
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William Emery Nickerson (November 5, 1853, June 5, 1930) was an American engineer and inventor.
Wikipedia, Camille Dreyfus (chemist)
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He and his brother Henri Dreyfus invented Celanese, an acetate yarn.
Wikipedia, Clessie Cummins
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He was an entrepreneur who improved on existing diesel engines, created new diesel engine designs, was awarded 33 United States patents for his inventions, and set five world records for endurance and speed for trucks, buses and race cars.
Wikipedia, Homer Stryker
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Homer Hartman Stryker (November 4, 1894, May 5, 1980) was an American orthopedic surgeon, inventor, businessman, and the founder of Stryker Corporation.
Wikipedia: Edward G. Budd
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Edward Gowen Budd (December 28, 1870, November 30, 1946) was an American inventor and businessman.
Wikipedia: Clive Sinclair
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Sir Clive Marles Sinclair (30 July 1940-16 September 2021) was an English entrepreneur and inventor, best known for being a pioneer in the computing industry and also as the founder of several companies that developed consumer electronics in the 1970s and early 1980s.
Wikipedia: Sebastian Ziani de Ferranti
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Sebastian Pietro Innocenzo Adhemar Ziani de Ferranti (9 April 1864-13 January 1930) was a British electrical engineer and inventor who pioneered high-voltage AC power in the UK, patented the Ferranti dynamo and designed Deptford power station.
Wikipedia: Danny Hillis
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William Daniel Hillis (born September 25, 1956) is an American inventor, entrepreneur, and computer scientist, who pioneered parallel computers and their use in artificial intelligence.
Wikipedia: Federico Faggin
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Federico Faggin (Italian pronunciation: [fedeˈriːko fadˈdʒin], Venetian: [faˈdʒiŋ]; born 1 December 1941) is an Italian-American physicist, engineer, inventor and entrepreneur.
Wikipedia: Elmer Ambrose Sperry
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Elmer Ambrose Sperry Sr. (October 12, 1860, June 16, 1930) was an American inventor and entrepreneur, most famous for construction, two years after Hermann Anschütz-Kaempfe, of the gyrocompass and as founder of the Sperry Gyroscope Company.
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