Robert William Thomson: Quick Facts


Facts

Born June 29, 1822 • Scotland
Died March 8, 1873 (aged 50) • Edinburgh • Scotland
Inventions pneumatic tire
Subjects Of Study tire

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Lionel Lukin
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Sir Christopher Cockerell
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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
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Thomas Newcomen
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Sir Henry Christopher Mance
British scientist
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William Fairbairn
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John Boyd Dunlop
British veterinary surgeon
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Robert Moog
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Self-portrait of Leonardo da Vinci drawn in red chalk, showing an elderly man with long hair and a flowing beard, with a serious, contemplative expression.
Leonardo da Vinci
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Alfred Nobel
Alfred Nobel
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Frederick W. Taylor
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Dean Kamen
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Shockley
William B. Shockley
American physicist
Diesel, 1883
Rudolf Diesel
German engineer
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
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Georges Claude
French engineer
Welsbach, Carl Auer, Freiherr von
Carl Auer, Freiherr von Welsbach
Austrian chemist and engineer
Gottlieb Daimler
Gottlieb Daimler
German engineer and inventor
Nikolaus Otto, c. 1868
Nikolaus Otto
German engineer
Ctesibius of Alexandria
Ctesibius Of Alexandria
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