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Born May 21, 1838 • Sweden
Died September 21, 1905 (aged 67) • Gothenburg • Sweden
John Stevens, oil on panel, attributed to John Trumbull; in the collection of the Stevens Institute of Technology
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American inventor and lawyer
Eugène Schneider
French industrialist
Isherwood, B.F.
B. F. Isherwood
United States naval engineer
John Fitch
John Fitch
American industrialist
Robert Livingston Stevens
American engineer
William Symington
British engineer
Claude-François-Dorothée, marquis de Jouffroy d’Abbans
French engineer and inventor
John Scott Russell
British engineer
Henry Bell, detail of an oil painting by James Tannock, 1840; in the Science Museum, London
Henry Bell
Scottish engineer
William Adams
English navigator
Isambard Kingdom Brunel
Isambard Kingdom Brunel
British engineer
Thomas Andrews
Thomas Andrews
Irish ship designer
William Francis Gibbs
American architect and engineer
J. Bruce Ismay
J. Bruce Ismay
British businessman
Watson, Thomas Augustus
Thomas Augustus Watson
American industrialist
William James Pirrie, Viscount Pirrie
William James Pirrie, Viscount Pirrie
Canadian shipwright
Henry J. Kaiser
American industrialist
István, Count Széchenyi
Hungarian political reformer and writer
The “Millionaire's Captain”
Edward J. Smith
British captain
Henry Miller Shreve
American river captain and engineer