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Born July 13, 1779 • Newburn • England
Died January 9, 1843 (aged 63) • England
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
Robert Stephenson
Robert Stephenson
British engineer
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Sir Daniel Gooch, 1st Baronet
British engineer
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Matthew Murray
English engineer
Peter Cooper
Peter Cooper
American inventor and manufacturer
John Stevens, oil on panel, attributed to John Trumbull; in the collection of the Stevens Institute of Technology
John Stevens
American inventor and lawyer
Baldwin, Matthias William
Matthias William Baldwin
American manufacturer
Thomas Savery's steam pump
Thomas Savery
British engineer and inventor
Robert Fulton
Robert Fulton
American inventor
James Watt
James Watt
Scottish instrument maker and inventor
Oliver Evans.
Oliver Evans
American inventor
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Eugène Schneider
French industrialist
Denis Papin
Denis Papin
British physicist
Nasmyth, James
James Nasmyth
British engineer
William Murdock, bust by an unknown artist; in the Science Museum, London
William Murdock
Scottish inventor
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William Symington
British engineer
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Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot
French engineer
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Nathan Read
American engineer and inventor
Corliss steam engine
George Henry Corliss
American inventor