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Baptized November 4, 1766
Died October 26, 1837 • Guernsey • United Kingdom
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John Elder
British engineer
Richard Trevithick, detail of an oil painting by John Linnell, 1816; in the Science Museum, London.
Richard Trevithick
British engineer and inventor
George Stephenson
George Stephenson
English engineer and inventor
Sir William Siemens, engraving after a portrait by Rudolf Lehmann
Sir William Siemens
German-born English engineer and inventor
Frank Whittle
Sir Frank Whittle
British inventor and aviator
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Sir Charles Algernon Parsons
British engineer
Difference Engine
Joseph Clement
British engineer
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Henry Maudslay
British engineer and inventor
Bailey bridge
Sir Donald Coleman Bailey
British engineer
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Sir Daniel Gooch, 1st Baronet
British engineer
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Sir John Isaac Thornycroft
British architect and engineer
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Sir Samuel Bentham
British engineer
Kelvin, William Thomson, Baron
William Thomson, Baron Kelvin
Scottish engineer, mathematician, and physicist
James B. Eads
James B. Eads
American engineer
R. Buckminster Fuller shown with a geodesic dome constructed as the U.S. pavilion at the American Exchange Exhibit, Moscow, 1959
R. Buckminster Fuller
American engineer, architect, and futurist
Henry Bessemer
Henry Bessemer
English inventor and engineer
Auguste Piccard, 1961
Auguste Piccard
Swiss-Belgian physicist
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Jack Kilby
American engineer
Noyce, Robert
Robert Noyce
American engineer
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Harold Rosen
American engineer