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All categories Literature & Letters202 Natural Sciences96 Mathematics & Computing36 Medicine & Healing Traditions99 Engineering & Technology24 Society, Peace & Law42 Economics, Business & Politics52 Music & Visual Arts0

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All disciplines Engineering23 Agriculture1

Builders of machines, structures, networks and the food systems that feed us.

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Su Song

1020 – 1101

Built an astronomical clock tower with the first known escapement chain drive.

China·Engineering · Astronomy

Shen Kuo

1031 – 1095

Described the magnetic compass and deduced geological deep time.

China·Astronomy · Engineering · History

Sejong the Great

1397 – 1450

Commissioned Hangul, the alphabet that made Korea literate.

South Korea·Literature · Engineering