Sir Henry Christopher Mance: Quick Facts

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Born	1840 • London • England
Died	April 21, 1926 (aged 86) • Oxford • England
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Richard Trevithick, detail of an oil painting by John Linnell, 1816; in the Science Museum, London.

Richard Trevithick

British engineer and inventor

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Thomas Newcomen

British engineer and inventor

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Sir Christopher Cockerell

British inventor

Robert William Thomson, Scottish inventor; engraving after a photograph, 1873.

Robert William Thomson

Scottish engineer and entrepreneur

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Lionel Lukin

British engineer

George Stephenson

George Stephenson

English engineer and inventor

Charles Babbage

Charles Babbage

British inventor and mathematician

Frank Whittle

Sir Frank Whittle

British inventor and aviator

George Cayley, detail of an oil painting by Henry Perronet Briggs, 1840; in the National Portrait Gallery, London

Sir George Cayley

British inventor and scientist

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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Henry Maudslay

British engineer and inventor

Charles Wheatstone

Sir Charles Wheatstone

British physicist

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John Hadley

British mathematician

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Sir William Fothergill Cooke

British inventor

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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 William Chandler Roberts-Austen

British metallurgist

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Thomas Tredgold

English engineer and writer

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Gowin Knight

English scientist

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Sir Samuel Bentham

British engineer

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