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Nationality groups engineers by the country or countries they held citizenship in. Wikipedia describes Tesla as "a Serbian-American engineer," born in the Austro-Hungarian Empire before he "migrated to the United States, where he became a naturalized citizen" in 1884. This dimension shows which countries produced the engineers behind a given technology.

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Chemical Engineering 1
Field Founding Era
1951 2
United States
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1. Wikipedia: Engineering
WikipediaIntroduction, traditional disciplines
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The traditional disciplines of engineering are civil, mechanical, electrical, and chemical.
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2. Wikipedia: Nuclear engineering
WikipediaHistory, 1951 first electricity-generating reactor
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The first nuclear reactor to generate electricity was Experimental Breeder Reactor I (EBR-I), which did so near Arco, Idaho, in 1951 on December 20.
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