Sir Goldsworthy Gurney: Quick Facts

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Born	February 14, 1793 • England
Died	February 28, 1875 (aged 82) • England

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

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Sir Alliott Verdon Roe

British aircraft designer

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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Peter Dollond

British optician

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

Sir William Siemens, engraving after a portrait by Rudolf Lehmann

Sir William Siemens

German-born English engineer and inventor

Sir Marc Isambard Brunel

Sir Marc Isambard Brunel

French-born engineer and inventor

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Edmund Beckett, 1st Baron Grimthorpe

English lawyer and horologist

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Sir Charles Algernon Parsons

British engineer

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Bryan Donkin

British industrialist

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Edward John Dent

British clockmaker

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William Greener

gunmaker and inventor

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James Starley

British inventor

Whitworth, detail of an oil painting by an unknown artist

Sir Joseph Whitworth, Baronet

British engineer

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Hugh Burgess

British-born American inventor

John Harrison

John Harrison

British horologist

Mudge, Thomas

Thomas Mudge

British watchmaker

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Rookes Evelyn Bell Crompton

British inventor

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Joseph Bramah

British inventor