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Born June 17, 1751 • Pennsylvania
Died January 12, 1838 (aged 86) • Pennsylvania
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William Francis Gibbs
American architect and engineer
Isherwood, B.F.
B. F. Isherwood
United States naval engineer
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Robert Livingston Stevens
American engineer
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Donald McKay
American naval architect
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John Willis Griffiths
American naval architect
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William Henry Webb
American naval architect
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Sir John Isaac Thornycroft
British architect and engineer
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John Scott Russell
British 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
Thomas Augustus Watson, 1902
Thomas Augustus Watson
American industrialist
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Henry J. Kaiser
American industrialist
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
American physician and writer
John Ericsson, detail of an oil painting by Charles Loring Elliott; in the Science Museum, London.
John Ericsson
Swedish-born American naval engineer and inventor
John Fitch
John Fitch
American industrialist
Isaac Hull, detail from a pencil sketch by L. Pellegrin, 1841.
Isaac Hull
United States naval officer
David Watson Taylor
David Watson Taylor
American naval architect
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Olin James Stephens II
American architect
William Bainbridge, engraving
William Bainbridge
United States naval officer
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Howard Leroy Vickery
United States admiral
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William Adams
English navigator