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Born 1839 • Paris • France
Died September 14, 1882 (aged 43)
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Pierre-Émile Martin.
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Kelvin, William Thomson, Baron
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James B. Eads
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Henry Bessemer
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Auguste Piccard, 1961
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Richard Trevithick, detail of an oil painting by John Linnell, 1816; in the Science Museum, London.
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