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Born May 8, 1808 • Glasgow • Scotland
Died June 8, 1882 (aged 74) • Ventnor • England
Subjects Of Study naval architecture
Isambard Kingdom Brunel
Isambard Kingdom Brunel
British engineer
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William Symington
British engineer
Isherwood, B.F.
B. F. Isherwood
United States naval engineer
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Robert Livingston Stevens
American engineer
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William Fairbairn
Scottish civil engineer and inventor
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Sir John Isaac Thornycroft
British architect and engineer
John Stevens, oil on panel, attributed to John Trumbull; in the collection of the Stevens Institute of Technology
John Stevens
American inventor and lawyer
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William Francis Gibbs
American architect and engineer
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Henry J. Kaiser
American industrialist
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Eugène Schneider
French industrialist
John Fitch
John Fitch
American industrialist
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Donald McKay
American naval architect
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John Willis Griffiths
American naval architect
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Joshua Humphreys
American ship designer
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Claude-François-Dorothée, marquis de Jouffroy d’Abbans
French engineer and inventor
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William Henry Webb
American naval architect
Henry Bell, detail of an oil painting by James Tannock, 1840; in the Science Museum, London
Henry Bell
Scottish engineer
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Axel Ludvig Brostrom
Swedish ship owner
George Stephenson
George Stephenson
English engineer and inventor
Napier, Robert Napier, 1st Baron
Robert Napier, 1st Baron Napier
British field marshal