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Born 1751 • Newburyport • Massachusetts
Died 1821 (aged 70)
Rialto Bridge, Venice
Antonio da Ponte
Italian architect and engineer
Latrobe, Benjamin
Benjamin Latrobe
American architect
Meigs, Montgomery C.
Montgomery C. Meigs
American engineer and architect
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Albert Fink
American engineer
Mackinac Bridge
David Barnard Steinman
American engineer
Huey P. Long Bridge
Ralph Modjeski
American engineer
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Squire Whipple
American engineer
Gustav Lindenthal.
Gustav Lindenthal
American engineer
Renzo Piano and Richard Rogers: Centre Georges Pompidou
Renzo Piano
Italian architect
Gustave Eiffel
Gustave Eiffel
French engineer
Isambard Kingdom Brunel
Isambard Kingdom Brunel
British engineer
Delorme, Philibert
Philibert Delorme
French architect
“Doris,” detail from the “Fountain of Neptune,” executed from Bartolommeo Ammannati's model by Andrea Calamech, 1563–75; in Piazza della Signoria, Florence
Bartolommeo Ammannati
Italian sculptor and architect
Thomas Telford
Thomas Telford
Scottish engineer
Smeaton, detail of an engraving by W. Bromley, 1798, after a portrait by J. Brown
John Smeaton
British engineer
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John Rennie
Scottish civil engineer
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Sir Hubert Shirley-Smith
British civil engineer
Robert Stephenson
Robert Stephenson
British engineer
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Fra Giovanni Giocondo
Italian architect
Bullant, Jean: Êcouen château
Jean Bullant
French architect

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