1846 - George Westinghouse
This inventor was Thomas Edison's main competition. He invented the rotary steam engine and railroad air brake, but is best known for his work making alternating current (AC) the electrical system used in America.


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1848 - Gustave Caillebotte
One of my favorite French Impressionist painters, probably because so much of his work has the feeling of a photograph (though that technology was just beginning).


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