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Oliver Evans.
Oliver Evans
American inventor
Sir Marc Isambard Brunel
Sir Marc Isambard Brunel
French-born engineer and inventor
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Elmer Ambrose Sperry
American inventor
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Johann Georg Bodmer
Swiss inventor
Arkwright, detail of an engraving by J. Jenkins after a portrait by Joseph Wright
Sir Richard Arkwright
British industrialist and inventor
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Henry Maudslay
British engineer and inventor
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Samuel Cunliffe Lister, 1st Baron Masham
British inventor
William George Armstrong, c. 1870
William George Armstrong, Baron Armstrong
British industrialist and engineer
Edmund Cartwright, engraving by James Thomson
Edmund Cartwright
British inventor
Perkins, Jacob
Jacob Perkins
American inventor
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Vincent Bendix
American inventor and industrialist
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Jean-Charles de Borda
French mathematician and nautical astronomer
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Robert Bosch
German engineer
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William Cockerill
British inventor
Edward Weston
Edward Weston
British-born American engineer and industrialist
Matzeliger
Jan Ernst Matzeliger
Dutch inventor
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George Dollond
British optician
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John Wyatt
English mechanic
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John Thorp
American inventor
Wool-carding machine by Lewis Paul
Lewis Paul
English inventor

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