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Born May 8, 1808 • Glasgow • Scotland
Died June 8, 1882 (aged 74) • Ventnor • England
Subjects Of Study naval architecture
Donald McKay
American naval architect
Isambard Kingdom Brunel
Isambard Kingdom Brunel
British engineer
William Symington
British engineer
Isherwood, B.F.
B. F. Isherwood
United States naval engineer
Robert Livingston Stevens
American engineer
William Fairbairn
British engineer
Sir John Isaac Thornycroft
British architect and engineer
John Stevens, oil on panel, attributed to John Trumbull; in the collection of the Stevens Institute of Technology
John Stevens
American inventor and lawyer
William Francis Gibbs
American architect and engineer
Henry J. Kaiser
American industrialist
Eugène Schneider
French industrialist
John Fitch
John Fitch
American industrialist
John Willis Griffiths
American naval architect
Joshua Humphreys
American ship designer
Claude-François-Dorothée, marquis de Jouffroy d’Abbans
French engineer and inventor
William Henry Webb
American naval architect
Henry Bell, detail of an oil painting by James Tannock, 1840; in the Science Museum, London
Henry Bell
Scottish engineer
Axel Ludvig Brostrom
Swedish ship owner
George Stephenson
George Stephenson
British inventor
Napier, Robert Napier, 1st Baron
Robert Napier, 1st Baron Napier
British field marshal