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Born 1678? • near Dudley • England
Died March 8, 1717 • England
Dud Dudley
English ironmaster
William Fairbairn
British engineer
John Wilkinson, oil painting by an unknown artist; in the Science Museum, London
John Wilkinson
English ironmaster
Amelia zur Helle Thyssen
German industrialist and philanthropist
August Thyssen
German industrialist
A photo of Jamsetji Tata.
Jamsetji Tata
Indian industrialist
Kelly, William
William Kelly
American inventor
Gayley, James
James Gayley
American metallurgist
Thyssen, Fritz
Fritz Thyssen
German industrialist
Christian Lundeberg
Swedish politician
Réaumur, detail of an engraving by J. Blanchon
René-Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur
French entomologist
John Roebuck
British physician, chemist, and inventor
John Chipman
American chemist and metallurgist
William Hyde Wollaston, detail of a pencil drawing by J. Jackson; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
William Hyde Wollaston
British scientist
Georgius Agricola.
Georgius Agricola
German scholar and scientist
Wöhler, detail of a lithograph by R. Hoffmann, 1856
Friedrich Wöhler
German chemist
Schwab, Charles M.
Charles M. Schwab
American manufacturer
Georgina Hope Rinehart
Australian business executive
Daniel Cowan Jackling.
Daniel Cowan Jackling
American engineer
Henry J. Kaiser
American industrialist

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James Watt as a young man, c1769. Scottish engineer and instrument maker. Invented the modern steam engine which became the main source of power in Britain's textile mills. His engine had a separate condenser in which steam from the cylinder; (see notes)
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