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Born June 17, 1751 • Pennsylvania
Died January 12, 1838 (aged 86) • Pennsylvania
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American architect and engineer
Isherwood, B.F.
B. F. Isherwood
United States naval engineer
Robert Livingston Stevens
American engineer
Donald McKay
American naval architect
John Willis Griffiths
American naval architect
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
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Oliver Wendell Holmes
American physician and writer
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
Isaac Hull, detail from a pencil sketch by L. Pellegrin, 1841.
Isaac Hull
United States naval officer
David Watson Taylor
David Watson Taylor
American naval architect
Olin James Stephens II
American architect
William Bainbridge, engraving
William Bainbridge
United States naval officer
Howard Leroy Vickery
United States admiral
William Adams
English navigator