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Born March 8, 1824 • Glasgow • Scotland
Died September 17, 1869 (aged 45) • London • England
Henry Bell, detail of an oil painting by James Tannock, 1840; in the Science Museum, London
Henry Bell
Scottish engineer
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Robert Livingston Stevens
American engineer
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Claude-François-Dorothée, marquis de Jouffroy d’Abbans
French engineer and inventor
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Arthur Woolf
British engineer
Kelvin, William Thomson, Baron
William Thomson, Baron Kelvin
Scottish engineer, mathematician, and physicist
William Murdock, bust by an unknown artist; in the Science Museum, London
William Murdock
Scottish inventor
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British engineer
Television pioneer
John Logie Baird
Scottish engineer
Sir Dugald Clerk
Sir Dugald Clerk
Scottish engineer
James B. Eads
James B. Eads
American engineer
R. Buckminster Fuller shown with a geodesic dome constructed as the U.S. pavilion at the American Exchange Exhibit, Moscow, 1959
R. Buckminster Fuller
American engineer, architect, and futurist
Henry Bessemer
Henry Bessemer
English inventor and engineer
Auguste Piccard, 1961
Auguste Piccard
Swiss-Belgian physicist
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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Jack Kilby
American engineer
Noyce, Robert
Robert Noyce
American engineer
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
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Harold Rosen
American engineer
Portrait of Dr. Felix Wankel, wearing glasses, a suit, and a tie, looking at the camera.
Felix Wankel
German inventor