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Obscure Innovators and Lost Discoveries
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Across
- 1. German horologist who revolutionized escapement design
- 2. Unheralded mind behind the early mechanized loom advances
- 4. Pioneer of pneumatic street cleaning, nearly scrubbed from memory
- 6. Advocate for alternating currents obscured by later giants
- 8. Improbable credited name blending science and philosophy in circuits
- 9. Icy innovation creator smoothing blades in winter arenas
- 11. Less-known originator of silk-winding machinery in France
- 12. Early reproductive telegraphy theorist whose fame slipped
- 15. Obscure inventor of arc welding techniques predating mass use
Down
- 3. Nikola’s resonant transformer shaping early wireless energy
- 5. Cryptic codebreaker who analogized encryption as a theft
- 7. Forgotten for galvanic experiments beyond famous frog limbs
- 10. Quantum pioneer designing apparatus before computing dawn
- 13. Medieval engineer who devised the earliest machine calculators
- 14. Inventor of variable pitch propellers granted little fanfare
- 16. Inventor of the first practical depth gauge for submarines
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