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Samuel C. Phillips

Samuel C. Phillips was a US Air Force general who directed NASA's Apollo lunar landing program from 1964 to 1969 and later led the National Security Agency.

Samuel Collins (cryogenic engineer)

Samuel Cornette Collins (1898–1984) was an American cryogenic engineer at MIT, known as the father of practical helium liquefiers; his 1946 Collins Helium Cryostat spread helium research worldwide.

Samuel Colt

Samuel Colt (1814–1862) was an American inventor and industrialist from Hartford, Connecticut, who patented the revolving-cylinder revolver in 1836 and built the world's largest private armament factory.

Samuel D. Stranks

Samuel D. Stranks is a physicist and Professor of Energy Materials and Optoelectronics at the University of Cambridge, known for his 2013 perovskite solar cell work.

Samuel De Champlain Bridge

The Samuel De Champlain Bridge is a 3.4-kilometer cable-stayed bridge carrying Highway 15 across the St. Lawrence River between Montreal and Brossard, opened in 2019.

Samuel Esson Jonah

Samuel Esson Jonah is a Ghanaian mining engineer who led Ashanti Goldfields and AngloGold Ashanti, and was elected to the US National Academy of Engineering in 2019.

Samuel Gershman

Samuel J. Gershman is a cognitive scientist and Professor of Psychology and Brain Science at Harvard University, known for computational models of reinforcement learning, dopamine, and memory.

Samuel L. Braunstein

Samuel L. Braunstein is a quantum information scientist and Professor of Quantum Computing at the University of York since 2003, known for continuous-variable quantum teleportation and the no-deleting theorem.

Samuel L. Zelinka

Samuel L. Zelinka is an American materials research engineer at the U.S. Forest Products Laboratory in Madison, Wisconsin, who studies wood-water interactions and received a PECASE award in 2011.

Samuel Morse

Samuel Morse, full name Samuel Finley Breese Morse, was an American painter and inventor who developed the electromagnetic telegraph and sent the first message "What hath God wrought" in 1844.

Samuel Rea

Samuel Rea (1855–1929) was an American civil engineer and railroad executive who rose from chainman to president of the Pennsylvania Railroad, serving from 1913 to 1925.

Samuel Silver

Samuel Silver (1915–1976) was an American electrical engineer and Berkeley professor known for microwave antenna theory and as first director of Berkeley's Space Sciences Laboratory.

Samuel-De Champlain Bridge

The Samuel-De Champlain Bridge (French: pont Samuel-De Champlain) is a cable-stayed bridge opened in 2019 across the St. Lawrence River between Montreal and Brossard, Quebec.

San Agustin Church (Manila)

San Agustin Church is a Roman Catholic church in Intramuros, Manila, completed in 1607 and the oldest stone church in the Philippines, a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1993.

San Alberto Gas Field

San Alberto is a giant onshore natural gas field in the Gran Chaco, Tarija, southern Bolivia, operated by Petrobras Bolivia since commercial production began in 2001.

San Antonio International Airport

San Antonio International Airport (SAT) is a medium-hub commercial airport eight miles north of downtown San Antonio, Texas, owned by the city and serving about 10.7 million passengers in 2025.

San Antonio Water System

The San Antonio Water System (SAWS) is the city-owned utility serving about 2 million people in San Antonio, Texas, and surrounding Bexar County. It was created in 1992.

San Antonio-class amphibious transport dock

The San Antonio-class amphibious transport dock, or LPD-17 class, is a United States Navy ship class that lands Marines and equipment ashore by landing craft, amphibious vehicles, and helicopters.

San Bernardino Line

The San Bernardino Line is a Metrolink commuter rail line from Los Angeles Union Station to San Bernardino, opened in 1992 and the busiest in the system.

San Carlos hydroelectric plant

The San Carlos hydroelectric plant (Central Hidroeléctrica San Carlos) is a 1,240 MW hydroelectric plant in Antioquia, Colombia, owned by ISAGEN and described as the country's largest power plant.

San Diego County Water Authority

The San Diego County Water Authority is a public wholesale water agency created by California in 1944, selling water to 22 member agencies serving 3.3 million people.

San Diego Gas & Electric

San Diego Gas & Electric (SDG&E) is a regulated utility providing electricity and natural gas to 3.7 million people in San Diego and southern Orange County, California.

San Diego International Airport

San Diego International Airport, historically known as Lindbergh Field, is the primary airport serving San Diego, California, and the busiest single-runway airport in the United States.

San Diego Supercomputer Center

The San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) is a national supercomputing center at UC San Diego, founded in 1985 with National Science Foundation funding for academic researchers.

San Diego Trolley

The San Diego Trolley is a light rail system in San Diego, California, opened in 1981 as the first modern light rail system in the United States.

San Fernando Gas Pipeline

The San Fernando Gas Pipeline (Gasoducto San Fernando), also known as Gasoducto de Tamaulipas, is a 114-kilometer natural gas pipeline in Tamaulipas, Mexico, opened in 2003.

San Fernando PV solar farm

The San Fernando PV solar farm is a 125 MW photovoltaic power plant in Benjamín Hill, Sonora, Mexico, developed by Fisterra Energy and operating since 2020.

San Francisco Armory

The San Francisco Armory, also known as the Mission Armory, is a fortress-like 1914 National Guard armory in San Francisco's Mission District, later the headquarters of Kink.com.

San Francisco cable car system

The San Francisco cable car system, invented by Andrew Smith Hallidie, opened in 1873 and is the last manually operated cable car system in the world.

San Francisco Fire Department Auxiliary Water Supply System

The San Francisco Fire Department Auxiliary Water Supply System (AWSS) is a dedicated high-pressure firefighting water network, built from 1908 to 1913 after the 1906 earthquake and fire.