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Born 1718 • Sheffield • England
Died July 17, 1794 (aged 76) • Scotland
Subjects Of Study iron • chamber process • process metallurgy
Jamsetji Tata
Indian industrialist
Eugène Schneider
French industrialist
Matthew Boulton, detail of an engraving by William Sharp after a portrait by William Beachey, 18th century
Matthew Boulton
British engineer and manufacturer
August Thyssen
German industrialist
Amelia zur Helle Thyssen
German industrialist and philanthropist
Antoine Lavoisier
Antoine Lavoisier
French chemist
Alfred Nobel
Alfred Nobel
Swedish inventor
James Watt
James Watt
Scottish inventor
Wöhler, detail of a lithograph by R. Hoffmann, 1856
Friedrich Wöhler
German chemist
William Hyde Wollaston, detail of a pencil drawing by J. Jackson; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
William Hyde Wollaston
British scientist
Oliver Evans.
Oliver Evans
American inventor
George Stephenson
George Stephenson
British inventor
Kelly, William
William Kelly
American inventor
Peter Cooper
Peter Cooper
American inventor and manufacturer
Henry J. Kaiser
American industrialist
Hazel Bishop
American chemist and businesswoman
Herbert H. Dow
American chemist
Frank Harold Spedding
American chemist
Nasmyth, James
James Nasmyth
Scottish engineer
Abraham Darby
British ironmaster

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Michael Faraday (L) English physicist and chemist (electromagnetism) and John Frederic Daniell (R) British chemist and meteorologist who invented the Daniell cell.
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