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Facts

Born September 13, 1755 • Delaware
Died April 15, 1819 (aged 63) • New York City • New York

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Oliver Evans.
Automatic gristmill patent
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Henry Ford
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Peter Cooper
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Edward Weston
British-born American engineer and industrialist
Baldwin, Matthias William
Matthias William Baldwin
American manufacturer
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James Watt
Scottish instrument maker and inventor
Richard Trevithick, detail of an oil painting by John Linnell, 1816; in the Science Museum, London.
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British engineer and inventor
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George Stephenson
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Sir Marc Isambard Brunel
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Arkwright, detail of an engraving by J. Jenkins after a portrait by Joseph Wright
Sir Richard Arkwright
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Samuel Cunliffe Lister, 1st Baron Masham
British inventor
William George Armstrong, c. 1870
William George Armstrong, Baron Armstrong
British industrialist and engineer
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Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot
French engineer
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Robert Bosch
German engineer
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William Cockerill
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Jesse Ramsden
British toolmaker
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Matthew Murray
English engineer
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Peter Dollond
British optician
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Orville Wright
American aviator

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