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Technology: biographical and genealogical

'The computer is incredibly fast, accurate, and stupid. Man is unbelievably slow, inaccurate, and brilliant.'
Leo Cherne

'Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.'
– Arthur C. Clarke

'A tool is but the extension of a man's hand, and a machine is but a complex tool. He that invents a machine augments the power of a man and the well-being of mankind.'
Henry Ward Beecher


other technology topics
notable persons index
 

    
Name
Type
Birth/Death
Revolvers
1814–62
Colt (1751.1)
Hemingway, Clarence
Spinal forceps
1871–1928
Hemingway (1884)
Gouffe, Jules
Chef
1807–77
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Coca wine
1838–1914
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Cat breeding
†1923
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