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Who is credited with inventing the modern telephone in 1876?
Who developed the first commercially practical incandescent light bulb in 1879?
Who invented the first successful motor-operated airplane, achieving flight at Kitty Hawk in December 1903?
Who is celebrated as the 'Father of Computer Science' for designing the theoretical Universal Turing Machine in 1936?
Who is regarded as the 'Father of the Computer' for designing the Analytical Engine in the 1830s?
Who discovered X-rays in 1895, winning the inaugural Nobel Prize in Physics in 1901?
Who discovered the universal law of gravitation and formulated the three laws of motion in 'Principia Mathematica' (1687)?
Who is celebrated as the world's first computer programmer for writing an algorithm to compute Bernoulli numbers for Babbage's Analytical Engine?
Who invented the World Wide Web (WWW) while working at CERN in 1989?
Who is credited with inventing dynamite in 1867 and subsequently established the Nobel Prizes?