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Born May 10, 1808 • Ludlow • Massachusetts
Died August 31, 1865 (aged 57) • Hartford • Connecticut
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J. Presper Eckert
American engineer
Gottlieb Daimler
Gottlieb Daimler
German engineer and inventor
James B. Eads
James B. Eads
American engineer
John Ericsson, detail of an oil painting by Charles Loring Elliott; in the Science Museum, London.
John Ericsson
Swedish-born American naval engineer and inventor
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Eliphalet Remington II
American manufacturer and inventor
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William Greener
gunmaker and inventor
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Henry Deringer
American gunsmith
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Nathan Read
American engineer and inventor
Willis Carrier
Willis Carrier
American inventor
Alfred Nobel
Alfred Nobel
Swedish chemist, engineer, and industrialist
James Watt
James Watt
Scottish instrument maker and inventor
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
Werner von Siemens, drawing by Ismael Gentz, 1887
Werner von Siemens
German electrical engineer
Karl Benz
Karl Benz
German engineer
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Sir Charles Algernon Parsons
British engineer
Nasmyth, James
James Nasmyth
British engineer
Arkwright, detail of an engraving by J. Jenkins after a portrait by Joseph Wright
Sir Richard Arkwright
British industrialist and inventor
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Joseph Bramah
British inventor

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