Inventors
- David Alter – inventor, physicist and doctor
- Ottmar Mergenthaler – linotype inventor
- Thomas Nast – German-born American caricaturist; considered to be the "Father of the American Cartoon".
- Gustave Whitehead – aviation pioneer, built first motorized plane
- Dietrich Gruen – timepiece or wristwatch maker. Founded the Gruen Watch Company in Ohio
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“In America the geography is sublime, but the men are not; the inventions are excellent, but the inventors one is sometimes ashamed of.”
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