Frederick Scott Archer: Quick Facts

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Born	1813 • Bishop’s Stortford • England
Died	May 2, 1857 (aged 44) • London • England

John Herschel

Sir John Herschel, 1st Baronet

English astronomer

Eadweard Muybridge

Eadweard Muybridge

British photographer

Abney

Sir William de Wiveleslie Abney

British chemist and photographer

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Leopold Godowsky, Jr.

American musician and photography technician

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Harold Edgerton

American electrical engineer and photographer

Gill, Sir David

Sir David Gill

Scottish astronomer

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Frederic Eugene Ives

American photographer and inventor

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Francis Edward Elmore

English metallurgist

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Alexander Stanley Elmore

English metallurgist

Joseph Priestley

Joseph Priestley

English clergyman and scientist

Henry Bessemer

Henry Bessemer

English inventor and engineer

Lovell, Sir Bernard

Sir Bernard Lovell

English radio astronomer

John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh

Lord Rayleigh

British scientist

Richard Trevithick, detail of an oil painting by John Linnell, 1816; in the Science Museum, London.

Richard Trevithick

British engineer and inventor

Bracket clock with oak case, ebony veneer, and gilt bronze mounts by Thomas Tompion, c. 1690; in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London.

Thomas Tompion

English clockmaker

Edward Gordon Craig, 1890.

Edward Gordon Craig

British actor and director

Josiah Wedgwood.

Josiah Wedgwood

English craftsman

George Stephenson

George Stephenson

English engineer and inventor

William Oughtred, watercolour by George Perfect Harding after an engraving by Wenceslaus Hollar, 1644; in the National Portrait Gallery, London.

William Oughtred

English mathematician

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Louis Essen

British physicist