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Born October 1763 • Scotland
Died March 22, 1831 (aged 67) • London • England
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Robert Fulton
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John Stevens, oil on panel, attributed to John Trumbull; in the collection of the Stevens Institute of Technology
John Stevens
American inventor and lawyer
George Stephenson
George Stephenson
British inventor
Robert Stephenson
Robert Stephenson
British engineer
John Scott Russell
British engineer
Henry Bell, detail of an oil painting by James Tannock, 1840; in the Science Museum, London
Henry Bell
Scottish engineer
William Fairbairn
British engineer
Eugène Schneider
French industrialist
Robert Livingston Stevens
American engineer
Claude-François-Dorothée, marquis de Jouffroy d’Abbans
French engineer and inventor
Nathan Read
American engineer and inventor
James Watt
James Watt
Scottish inventor
Richard Trevithick, detail of an oil painting by John Linnell, 1816; in the Science Museum, London.
Richard Trevithick
English engineer
Isambard Kingdom Brunel
Isambard Kingdom Brunel
British engineer
Sir Marc Isambard Brunel
Sir Marc Isambard Brunel
French-British engineer
Denis Papin
Denis Papin
British physicist
McAdam, engraving by Charles Turner
John Loudon McAdam
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William Murdock, bust by an unknown artist; in the Science Museum, London
William Murdock
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James Henry Greathead
James Henry Greathead
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