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Born July 5, 1753 • England
Died February 23, 1815 (aged 61) • Penryn • England
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John Elder
British engineer
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Arthur Woolf
British engineer
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Alexander Stanley Elmore
English metallurgist
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Francis Edward Elmore
English metallurgist
Joseph Priestley
Joseph Priestley
English clergyman and scientist
John Herschel
Sir John Herschel, 1st Baronet
English astronomer
Henry Bessemer
Henry Bessemer
English inventor and engineer
Lovell, Sir Bernard
Sir Bernard Lovell
English radio astronomer
John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh
Lord Rayleigh
British scientist
Richard Trevithick, detail of an oil painting by John Linnell, 1816; in the Science Museum, London.
Richard Trevithick
British engineer and inventor
Bracket clock with oak case, ebony veneer, and gilt bronze mounts by Thomas Tompion, c. 1690; in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London.
Thomas Tompion
English clockmaker
Edward Gordon Craig, 1890.
Edward Gordon Craig
British actor and director
Josiah Wedgwood.
Josiah Wedgwood
English craftsman
George Stephenson
George Stephenson
English engineer and inventor
William Oughtred, watercolour by George Perfect Harding after an engraving by Wenceslaus Hollar, 1644; in the National Portrait Gallery, London.
William Oughtred
English mathematician
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Louis Essen
British physicist
Eadweard Muybridge
Eadweard Muybridge
British photographer
The discoverer of the principle of the aplanatic focus
Joseph Jackson Lister
British opticist
Starling
Ernest Henry Starling
British physiologist
Frank Whittle
Sir Frank Whittle
British inventor and aviator