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16 of history's most brilliant inventors. The minds behind electricity, aviation, and the internet. Ideas that reshaped civilization.

Howard Hughes

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Howard Hughes

United States

In 1938 Howard Hughes flew around the world in 3 days, 19 hours, and 17 minutes, earning a ticker-tape parade in New York. He produced landmark films like Scarface 1932 and Hell's Angels 1930. Later in life he became a reclusive billionaire, dying of kidney failure in 1976.

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1740 1980