Richard Lovell Edgeworth: Quick Facts


Facts

Born May 31, 1744 • Bath • England
Died June 13, 1817 (aged 73) • Ireland
Notable Works “Practical Education”
Notable Family Members daughter Maria Edgeworth
Subjects Of Study teaching

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Richard Trevithick, detail of an oil painting by John Linnell, 1816; in the Science Museum, London.
Richard Trevithick
British engineer and inventor
Charles Babbage
Charles Babbage
British inventor and mathematician
Spinning jenny
James Hargreaves
English 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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Thomas Newcomen
British engineer and inventor
Arkwright, detail of an engraving by J. Jenkins after a portrait by Joseph Wright
Sir Richard Arkwright
British industrialist and inventor
Samuel Crompton
Samuel Crompton
British inventor
Charles Wheatstone
Sir Charles Wheatstone
British physicist
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John Hadley
British mathematician
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Sir William Fothergill Cooke
British inventor
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Sir Henry Christopher Mance
British scientist
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Joseph Jenks
British-American inventor
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Gowin Knight
English scientist
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Micheál MacLiammóir
actor, scenic designer, and playwright
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Sir Christopher Cockerell
British inventor
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Robert Moog
American electrical engineer
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Marcel Schlumberger
German geophysicist
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Conrad Schlumberger
German geophysicist