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Born 1765 • near Newcastle upon Tyne • England
Died February 20, 1826 (aged 61) • Leeds • England
George Stephenson
George Stephenson
English engineer and inventor
Richard Trevithick, detail of an oil painting by John Linnell, 1816; in the Science Museum, London.
Richard Trevithick
British engineer and inventor
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Sir Daniel Gooch, 1st Baronet
British engineer
Peter Cooper
Peter Cooper
American inventor and manufacturer
Baldwin, Matthias William
Matthias William Baldwin
American manufacturer
Matthew Boulton, detail of an engraving by William Sharp after a portrait by William Beachey, 18th century
Matthew Boulton
British engineer and manufacturer
Robert Stephenson
Robert Stephenson
British engineer
Thomas Savery's steam pump
Thomas Savery
British engineer and inventor
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Joseph Bramah
British inventor
William George Armstrong, c. 1870
William George Armstrong, Baron Armstrong
British industrialist and engineer
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John Fowler
English engineer
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William Hedley
British inventor
James Watt
James Watt
Scottish instrument maker and inventor
James B. Eads
James B. Eads
American engineer
Oliver Evans.
Oliver Evans
American inventor
Sir William Siemens, engraving after a portrait by Rudolf Lehmann
Sir William Siemens
German-born English engineer and inventor
John Stevens, oil on panel, attributed to John Trumbull; in the collection of the Stevens Institute of Technology
John Stevens
American inventor and lawyer
Karl Benz
Karl Benz
German engineer
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Eugène Schneider
French industrialist
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Sir Charles Algernon Parsons
British engineer