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Born February 1, 1843 • Rome • Italy
Died June 28, 1928 (aged 85) • England
Notable Family Members brother Sir Hamo Thornycroft
Sir Samuel Bentham
British engineer
Robert Livingston Stevens
American engineer
William Froude
British engineer
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
Frank Whittle
Sir Frank Whittle
British inventor and aviator
Henry Maudslay
British engineer and inventor
Sir Daniel Gooch, 1st Baronet
British engineer
William Francis Gibbs
American architect and engineer
John Ericsson, detail of an oil painting by Charles Loring Elliott; in the Science Museum, London.
John Ericsson
Swedish-American engineer
Claude-François-Dorothée, marquis de Jouffroy d’Abbans
French engineer and inventor
Henry Bell, detail of an oil painting by James Tannock, 1840; in the Science Museum, London
Henry Bell
Scottish engineer
Henry Bessemer
Henry Bessemer
English inventor and engineer
Sir William Siemens, engraving after a portrait by Rudolf Lehmann
Sir William Siemens
British inventor
Isambard Kingdom Brunel
Isambard Kingdom Brunel
British engineer
Sir Charles Algernon Parsons
British engineer
Difference Engine
Joseph Clement
British engineer
John Kay, detail of a lithograph by Madeley
John Kay
British engineer and inventor
Thomas Savery's steam pump
Thomas Savery
British engineer and inventor
Joseph Bramah
British inventor