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Born July 9, 1766 • Newburyport • Massachusetts
Died July 30, 1849 (aged 83) • London • England

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Asher B. Durand
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American inventor and industrialist
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Edward Weston
American engineer and industrialist
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Dutch inventor
John Thorp
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Sir Marc Isambard Brunel
French-British engineer
Johann Georg Bodmer
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Sir Richard Arkwright
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Samuel Cunliffe Lister, 1st Baron Masham
British inventor
William George Armstrong, c. 1870
William George Armstrong, Baron Armstrong
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Edmund Cartwright
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George Baxter
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