Sir Richard Arkwright: Quick Facts


Facts

Born December 23, 1732 • Preston • England
Died August 3, 1792 (aged 59) • England
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Sir William Fothergill Cooke
British inventor
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Peter Dollond
British optician
Sir Marc Isambard Brunel
Sir Marc Isambard Brunel
French-born engineer and inventor
William George Armstrong, c. 1870
William George Armstrong, Baron Armstrong
British industrialist and engineer
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Charles Chubb
British inventor
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William Cockerill
British inventor
Edward Weston
Edward Weston
British-born American engineer and industrialist
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John Wyatt
English mechanic
Wool-carding machine by Lewis Paul
Lewis Paul
English inventor
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Jesse Ramsden
British toolmaker
Richard Trevithick, detail of an oil painting by John Linnell, 1816; in the Science Museum, London.
Richard Trevithick
British engineer and inventor
George Stephenson
George Stephenson
English engineer and inventor
George Cayley, detail of an oil painting by Henry Perronet Briggs, 1840; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
Sir George Cayley
British inventor and scientist
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Sir Alliott Verdon Roe
British aircraft designer
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Henry Maudslay
British engineer and inventor
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Sir Goldsworthy Gurney
English inventor
Edmund Cartwright, engraving by James Thomson
Edmund Cartwright
British inventor
Charles Wheatstone
Sir Charles Wheatstone
British physicist
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John Hadley
British mathematician