[{"n": "Sakichi Toyoda", "u": "/e/inventors-and-engineers/sakichi-toyoda/", "s": "Japanese inventor and industrialist who revolutionized textile machinery."}, {"n": "Seymour Cray", "u": "/e/inventors-and-engineers/seymour-cray/", "s": "Father of supercomputing; designed the fastest computers for decades."}, {"n": "Shuji Nakamura", "u": "/e/inventors-and-engineers/shuji-nakamura/", "s": "Co-inventor of the blue LED and Nobel laureate in physics."}, {"n": "Stephanie Kwolek", "u": "/e/inventors-and-engineers/stephanie-kwolek/", "s": "Chemist who invented Kevlar, a fiber five times stronger than steel."}, {"n": "Steve Wozniak", "u": "/e/inventors-and-engineers/steve-wozniak/", "s": "Co-founder of Apple Inc. and personal computer pioneer."}, {"n": "Sylvester H. Roper", "u": "/e/inventors-and-engineers/sylvester-h-roper/", "s": "American inventor of early automobiles and motorcycles."}, {"n": "Tanaka Hisashige", "u": "/e/inventors-and-engineers/tanaka-hisashige/", "s": "Inventor and founder of Toshiba, known as Japan's Thomas Edison."}, {"n": "Thomas Newcomen", "u": "/e/inventors-and-engineers/thomas-newcomen/", "s": "English inventor of the atmospheric steam engine, 1712."}, {"n": "Thomas Telford", "u": "/e/inventors-and-engineers/thomas-telford/", "s": "Scottish civil engineer dubbed the 'Colossus of Roads'."}, {"n": "Vladimir Shukhov", "u": "/e/inventors-and-engineers/vladimir-shukhov/", "s": "Russian engineer-polymath who pioneered hyperboloid structures and cracking methods."}, {"n": "Wallace Carothers", "u": "/e/inventors-and-engineers/wallace-carothers/", "s": "American chemist who invented nylon and advanced polymer science."}, {"n": "Werner von Siemens", "u": "/e/inventors-and-engineers/werner-von-siemens/", "s": "German engineer who founded Siemens and pioneered electric transport."}, {"n": "Wilhelm Maybach", "u": "/e/inventors-and-engineers/wilhelm-maybach/", "s": "German engine designer hailed as 'King of Designers'."}, {"n": "William Kennedy Dickson", "u": "/e/inventors-and-engineers/william-kennedy-dickson/", "s": "British-American inventor who created early motion picture technology for Edison."}, {"n": "Willis Carrier", "u": "/e/inventors-and-engineers/willis-carrier/", "s": "American engineer who invented modern air conditioning."}, {"n": "Yukihiro Matsumoto", "u": "/e/inventors-and-engineers/yukihiro-matsumoto/", "s": "Japanese computer scientist who designed the Ruby programming language."}]