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Also Known As Eduard Friedrich Maximilian von Eyth
Born May 6, 1836 • Germany
Died August 25, 1906 (aged 70) • Ulm • Germany
Diesel, 1883
Rudolf Diesel
French-German engineer
Gottlieb Daimler
Gottlieb Daimler
German engineer and inventor
Nikolaus Otto, c. 1868
Nikolaus Otto
German engineer
Paul Gottlieb Nipkow
German scientist
Robert Moog
American electrical engineer
Sir Christopher Cockerell
British inventor
Leonardo da Vinci: self-portrait
Leonardo da Vinci
Italian artist, engineer, and scientist
Sir Humphry Davy
Sir Humphry Davy
British chemist
Alfred Nobel
Alfred Nobel
Swedish inventor
Richard Trevithick, detail of an oil painting by John Linnell, 1816; in the Science Museum, London.
Richard Trevithick
English engineer
Frederick W. Taylor
American inventor and engineer
Dean Kamen
American inventor
Robert William Thomson, Scottish inventor; engraving after a photograph, 1873.
Robert William Thomson
Scottish engineer and entrepreneur
Shockley
William B. Shockley
American physicist
John Ericsson, detail of an oil painting by Charles Loring Elliott; in the Science Museum, London.
John Ericsson
Swedish-American engineer
Georges Claude
French engineer
Thomas Newcomen
British engineer and inventor
Welsbach, Carl Auer, Freiherr von
Carl Auer, Freiherr von Welsbach
Austrian chemist and engineer
Ctesibius of Alexandria
Ctesibius Of Alexandria
Greek physicist and inventor
Philippe Lebon
French scientist

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