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Born April 3, 1753 • Massachusetts
Died August 30, 1848 (aged 95) • Roxbury • Massachusetts

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Chauncey Jerome clock
Chauncey Jerome
American inventor
Bracket clock with oak case, ebony veneer, and gilt bronze mounts by Thomas Tompion, c. 1690; in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London.
Thomas Tompion
English clockmaker
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Edmund Beckett, 1st Baron Grimthorpe
English lawyer and horologist
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Edward John Dent
British clockmaker
John Harrison
John Harrison
British horologist
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Ferdinand Berthoud
horologist and author
Quare, Daniel: Queen Ann clock
Daniel Quare
English clockmaker and inventor
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Wilbur Wright
American aviator
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Orville Wright
American aviator
Henry Ford
Henry Ford
American industrialist
American industrialist and inventor of the Pullman sleeping car George M. Pullman
George M. Pullman
American industrialist and inventor
A photograph of Igor Sikorsky holding a model aircraft.
Igor Sikorsky
American engineer
James B. Eads
James B. Eads
American engineer
Eli Whitney
Eli Whitney
American inventor and manufacturer
Oliver Evans.
Oliver Evans
American inventor
Cyrus McCormick
Cyrus McCormick
American industrialist and inventor
John A. Roebling
John Augustus Roebling
German-born American engineer
Peter Cooper
Peter Cooper
American inventor and manufacturer
Glenn Hammond Curtiss.
Glenn Hammond Curtiss
American engineer
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William P. Lear
American engineer and industrialist