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Harry Houdini
Patent holder (diving suit); founder of Houdini
Pictures Corporation; pilot
Howard Thurston
Patent holder (anti-snoring device)
Chung Ling Soo
Owner, toy airplane factory
John Neville Maskelyne
Patent holder (pay toilet)
George Melies
Inventor of many early motion
picture special effects and techniques
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