Ask the Chatbot Games & Quizzes History & Society Science & Tech Biographies Animals & Nature Geography & Travel Arts & Culture ProCon Money Videos

Nathan Read: Quick Facts

Written and fact-checked by
The Information Architects of Encyclopaedia Britannica

The Information Architects maintain a master list of the topics included in the corpus of  Encyclopædia Britannica, and create and manage the relationships between them.
The Information Architects of Encyclopaedia Britannica

Facts

Born July 2, 1759 • Massachusetts
Died January 20, 1849 (aged 89) • near Belfast • Maine
Richard Trevithick, detail of an oil painting by John Linnell, 1816; in the Science Museum, London.
Richard Trevithick
British engineer and inventor
Robert Fulton
Robert Fulton
American inventor
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
default image
Elisha King Root
American inventor, engineer, and manufacturer
Corliss steam engine
George Henry Corliss
American inventor
default image
Samuel Morey
American inventor
James Watt
James Watt
Scottish instrument maker and inventor
George Stephenson
George Stephenson
English engineer and inventor
Thomas Savery's steam pump
Thomas Savery
British engineer and inventor
William Murdock, bust by an unknown artist; in the Science Museum, London
William Murdock
Scottish inventor
Gottlieb Daimler
Gottlieb Daimler
German engineer and inventor
default image
William Symington
British engineer
default image
Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot
French engineer
Nikolaus Otto, c. 1868
Nikolaus Otto
German engineer
Ctesibius of Alexandria
Ctesibius Of Alexandria
Greek physicist and inventor
default image
Sir Daniel Gooch, 1st Baronet
British engineer
default image
Matthew Murray
English engineer
default image
Paul Gottlieb Nipkow
German scientist
default image
Robert Moog
American electrical engineer
Watch a silent short of Thomas Edison, who invented the phonograph and incandescent electric light
Thomas Edison
American inventor

Related Quizzes

ball bearing. Disassembled ball bearing. rotational friction Automobile Industry, Engineering, Industry, Machine Part, Metal Industry, Sphere, Steel, Wheel
Inventors and Inventions