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Also Known As compound steam engine

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Robert Fulton
Robert Fulton
American inventor
James Watt
James Watt
Scottish instrument maker and inventor
Oliver Evans.
Oliver Evans
American inventor
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
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
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Eugène Schneider
French industrialist
Matthew Boulton, detail of an engraving by William Sharp after a portrait by William Beachey, 18th century
Matthew Boulton
British engineer and manufacturer
Robert Stephenson
Robert Stephenson
British engineer
Nasmyth, James
James Nasmyth
British engineer
Thomas Savery's steam pump
Thomas Savery
British engineer and inventor
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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John Roebuck
British physician, chemist, and inventor
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Sir Daniel Gooch, 1st Baronet
British engineer
Baldwin, Matthias William
Matthias William Baldwin
American manufacturer
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Joshua Field
British civil engineer
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Nathan Read
American engineer and inventor
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Matthew Murray
English engineer

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