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Born April 1700 • England
Died November 29, 1766 (aged 66) • Birmingham • England
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Sir Richard Arkwright
British industrialist and inventor
Henry Maudslay
British engineer and inventor
William George Armstrong, c. 1870
William George Armstrong, Baron Armstrong
British engineer
Wool-carding machine by Lewis Paul
Lewis Paul
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Robert Bosch
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Édouard Belin
French engineer
Henry Bessemer
Henry Bessemer
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Richard Trevithick, detail of an oil painting by John Linnell, 1816; in the Science Museum, London.
Richard Trevithick
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George Stephenson
George Stephenson
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Frank Whittle
Sir Frank Whittle
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John Kay, detail of a lithograph by Madeley
John Kay
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Thomas Savery's steam pump
Thomas Savery
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Joseph Bramah
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Samuel Cunliffe Lister, 1st Baron Masham
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William Froude
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Sir Arthur Percy Morris Fleming
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Edmund Cartwright, engraving by James Thomson
Edmund Cartwright
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Samuel Hall
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Sir Daniel Gooch, 1st Baronet
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