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Sir Daniel Gooch, 1st Baronet
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Born August 24, 1816 • Bedlington • England
Died October 15, 1889 (aged 73) • near Windsor • England
Richard Trevithick, detail of an oil painting by John Linnell, 1816; in the Science Museum, London.
Richard Trevithick
English engineer
George Stephenson
George Stephenson
British inventor
Matthew Murray
English engineer
Robert Stephenson
Robert Stephenson
British engineer
Thomas Savery's steam pump
Thomas Savery
British engineer and inventor
William Hedley
British inventor
Frank Whittle
Sir Frank Whittle
British inventor and aviator
Henry Maudslay
British engineer and inventor
Sir John Isaac Thornycroft
British architect and engineer
Sir Samuel Bentham
British 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
William Murdock, bust by an unknown artist; in the Science Museum, London
William Murdock
Scottish inventor
Gottlieb Daimler
Gottlieb Daimler
German engineer and inventor
Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot
French engineer
Karl Benz
Karl Benz
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Baldwin, Matthias William
Matthias William Baldwin
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Nathan Read
American engineer and inventor
Henry Bessemer
Henry Bessemer
English inventor and engineer
Sir William Siemens, engraving after a portrait by Rudolf Lehmann
Sir William Siemens
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