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Born September 13, 1755 • Delaware
Died April 15, 1819 (aged 63) • New York City • New York

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English engineer
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Henry Ford
American industrialist
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Peter Cooper
American inventor and manufacturer
Elmer Ambrose Sperry
American inventor
Vincent Bendix
American inventor and industrialist
Edward Weston
Edward Weston
American engineer and industrialist
Baldwin, Matthias William
Matthias William Baldwin
American manufacturer
James Watt
James Watt
Scottish inventor
Richard Trevithick, detail of an oil painting by John Linnell, 1816; in the Science Museum, London.
Richard Trevithick
English engineer
George Stephenson
George Stephenson
British inventor
Sir Marc Isambard Brunel
Sir Marc Isambard Brunel
French-British engineer
Arkwright, detail of an engraving by J. Jenkins after a portrait by Joseph Wright
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British industrialist and inventor
Samuel Cunliffe Lister, 1st Baron Masham
British inventor
William George Armstrong, c. 1870
William George Armstrong, Baron Armstrong
British engineer
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Robert Bosch
German engineer
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