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Born England
Died 1759 • London • England

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Arkwright, detail of an engraving by J. Jenkins after a portrait by Joseph Wright
Sir Richard Arkwright
British industrialist and inventor
John Wyatt
English mechanic
Johann Georg Bodmer
Swiss inventor
Henry Maudslay
British engineer and inventor
Samuel Cunliffe Lister, 1st Baron Masham
British inventor
William George Armstrong, c. 1870
William George Armstrong, Baron Armstrong
British engineer
Edmund Cartwright, engraving by James Thomson
Edmund Cartwright
British inventor
William Cockerill
British inventor
Edward Weston
Edward Weston
American engineer and industrialist
George Dollond
British optician
Jesse Ramsden
British tool maker
Peter Dollond
British optician
Oliver Evans.
Oliver Evans
American inventor
Sir Marc Isambard Brunel
Sir Marc Isambard Brunel
French-British engineer
Elmer Ambrose Sperry
American inventor
Perkins, Jacob
Jacob Perkins
American inventor
Vincent Bendix
American inventor and industrialist
Jean-Charles de Borda
French naval officer and physicist
Robert Bosch
German engineer
Matzeliger
Jan Ernst Matzeliger
Dutch inventor