John Thorp: Quick Facts


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Born 1784 • Massachusetts
Died November 15, 1848 (aged 64) • Providence • Rhode Island • (Anniversary in 2 days)

Oliver Evans.
Oliver Evans
American inventor
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Elmer Ambrose Sperry
American inventor
Perkins, Jacob
Jacob Perkins
American inventor
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Vincent Bendix
American inventor and industrialist
Edward Weston
Edward Weston
British-born American engineer and industrialist
Matzeliger
Jan Ernst Matzeliger
Dutch 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
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George Dollond
British optician
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John Wyatt
English mechanic
Wool-carding machine by Lewis Paul
Lewis Paul
English inventor
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Jesse Ramsden
British toolmaker
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Édouard Belin
French engineer