Jacob Perkins: Quick Facts


Facts

Born July 9, 1766 • Newburyport • Massachusetts
Died July 30, 1849 (aged 83) • London • England

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Oliver Evans.
Oliver Evans
American inventor
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Elmer Ambrose Sperry
American inventor
Durand, Asher B.: The First Harvest in the Wilderness
Asher B. Durand
American artist
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Vincent Bendix
American inventor and industrialist
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Joseph Dixon
American inventor
Edward Weston
Edward Weston
British-born American engineer and industrialist
Matzeliger
Jan Ernst Matzeliger
Dutch inventor
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John Thorp
American inventor
Richard Trevithick, detail of an oil painting by John Linnell, 1816; in the Science Museum, London.
Richard Trevithick
British engineer and inventor
Sir Marc Isambard Brunel
Sir Marc Isambard Brunel
French-born engineer and inventor
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Johann Georg Bodmer
Swiss inventor
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
William George Armstrong, c. 1870
William George Armstrong, Baron Armstrong
British industrialist and engineer
Edmund Cartwright, engraving by James Thomson
Edmund Cartwright
British inventor
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Jean-Charles de Borda
French mathematician and nautical astronomer
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Robert Bosch
German engineer
George Baxter, detail of a pencil drawing by an unknown artist
George Baxter
English engraver and printer
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George Dollond
British optician