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Born June 1, 1907 • Coventry • England
Died August 8, 1996 (aged 89) • Columbia • Maryland

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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
Sir Alliott Verdon Roe
British aircraft designer
Henry Maudslay
British engineer and inventor
Sir Daniel Gooch, 1st Baronet
British engineer
Sir John Isaac Thornycroft
British architect and engineer
Sir Samuel Bentham
British engineer
Ohain, Hans Joachim Pabst von
Hans Joachim Pabst von Ohain
German designer
R.E.P. No. 2
Robert Esnault-Pelterie
French aviation pioneer
Henry Bessemer
Henry Bessemer
English inventor and engineer
Sir William Siemens, engraving after a portrait by Rudolf Lehmann
Sir William Siemens
British inventor
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
William Froude
British engineer
William George Armstrong, c. 1870
William George Armstrong, Baron Armstrong
British engineer
Sir Arthur Percy Morris Fleming
British engineer
Bailey bridge
Sir Donald Coleman Bailey
British engineer

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