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Born 1699 • England
Died 1758 (aged 59) • London • England

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John Stevens, oil on panel, attributed to John Trumbull; in the collection of the Stevens Institute of Technology
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British engineer
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Claude-François-Dorothée, marquis de Jouffroy d’Abbans
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John Elder
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Henry Bell, detail of an oil painting by James Tannock, 1840; in the Science Museum, London
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English metallurgist
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Francis Edward Elmore
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Joseph Priestley
Joseph Priestley
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Sir John Herschel, 1st Baronet
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Henry Bessemer
Henry Bessemer
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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
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Louis Essen
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