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Born c.1825 • Reading • England
Died February 23, 1892 • Atlantic City • New Jersey
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Wilbur Wright
American aviator
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Orville Wright
American aviator
Henry Ford
Henry Ford
American industrialist
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Elmer Ambrose Sperry
American inventor
American industrialist and inventor of the Pullman sleeping car George M. Pullman
George M. Pullman
American industrialist and inventor
A photograph of Igor Sikorsky holding a model aircraft.
Igor Sikorsky
American engineer
James B. Eads
James B. Eads
American engineer
Eli Whitney
Eli Whitney
American inventor and manufacturer
Oliver Evans.
Oliver Evans
American inventor
Cyrus McCormick
Cyrus McCormick
American industrialist 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
John A. Roebling
John Augustus Roebling
German-born American engineer
Peter Cooper
Peter Cooper
American inventor and manufacturer
Glenn Hammond Curtiss.
Glenn Hammond Curtiss
American engineer
Sir Marc Isambard Brunel
Sir Marc Isambard Brunel
French-born engineer and inventor
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William P. Lear
American engineer and industrialist
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Ellen Louise Curtis Demorest
American businesswoman
Samuel Colt, c. 1855.
Samuel Colt
American inventor and manufacturer
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Simon Willard
American clockmaker