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Born October 6, 1809 • New York City • New York
Died March 30, 1882 (aged 72)
Subjects Of Study naval architecture
Donald McKay
American naval architect
William Francis Gibbs
American architect and engineer
Isherwood, B.F.
B. F. Isherwood
United States naval engineer
Robert Livingston Stevens
American engineer
Joshua Humphreys
American ship designer
William Henry Webb
American naval architect
Sir John Isaac Thornycroft
British architect and engineer
John Scott Russell
British engineer
John Stevens, oil on panel, attributed to John Trumbull; in the collection of the Stevens Institute of Technology
John Stevens
American inventor and lawyer
Watson, Thomas Augustus
Thomas Augustus Watson
American industrialist
Henry J. Kaiser
American industrialist
John Ericsson, detail of an oil painting by Charles Loring Elliott; in the Science Museum, London.
John Ericsson
Swedish-American engineer
John Fitch
John Fitch
American industrialist
David Watson Taylor
David Watson Taylor
American naval architect
Olin James Stephens II
American architect
Howard Leroy Vickery
United States admiral
William Adams
English navigator
Isambard Kingdom Brunel
Isambard Kingdom Brunel
British engineer
Thomas Andrews
Thomas Andrews
Irish ship designer
William James Pirrie, Viscount Pirrie
William James Pirrie, Viscount Pirrie
Canadian shipwright