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Born 1730 • London • England
Died July 2, 1820 (aged 90) • London • England
John Dollond
British optician
George Dollond
British optician
Arkwright, detail of an engraving by J. Jenkins after a portrait by Joseph Wright
Sir Richard Arkwright
British industrialist and inventor
Sir Marc Isambard Brunel
Sir Marc Isambard Brunel
French-British engineer
Samuel Cunliffe Lister, 1st Baron Masham
British inventor
William George Armstrong, c. 1870
William George Armstrong, Baron Armstrong
British engineer
Chester Moor Hall
British jurist and mathematician
Edward Weston
Edward Weston
American engineer and industrialist
Jesse Ramsden
British tool maker
Lord Rayleigh, engraving by R. Cottot.
Lord Rayleigh
British scientist
George Stephenson
George Stephenson
British inventor
George Cayley, detail of an oil painting by Henry Perronet Briggs, 1840; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
Sir George Cayley
British inventor and scientist
Sir Alliott Verdon Roe
British aircraft designer
Henry Maudslay
British engineer and inventor
Sir Goldsworthy Gurney
British inventor
Edmund Cartwright, engraving by James Thomson
Edmund Cartwright
British inventor
Oliver Evans.
Oliver Evans
American inventor
William P. Lear
American engineer and industrialist
Elmer Ambrose Sperry
American inventor
Bernhard Voldemar Schmidt
German optician