Math, Science and Technology
- Mary Anderson, inventor of windshield wipers
- Andrew Jackson Beard, inventor of automatic railcar coupling
- Lawrence J. DeLucas, biophysical engineer; Space Shuttle Columbia astronaut.
- E. O. Wilson, entomologist and noted author
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“The present war having so long cut off all communication with Great-Britain, we are not able to make a fair estimate of the state of science in that country. The spirit in which she wages war is the only sample before our eyes, and that does not seem the legitimate offspring either of science or of civilization.”
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