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Born December 23, 1732 • Preston • England
Died August 3, 1792 (aged 59) • England
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British optician
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French-British engineer
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William George Armstrong, c. 1870
William George Armstrong, Baron Armstrong
British engineer
Charles Chubb
British inventor
William Cockerill
British inventor
Edward Weston
Edward Weston
American engineer and industrialist
John Wyatt
English mechanic
Wool-carding machine by Lewis Paul
Lewis Paul
English inventor
Jesse Ramsden
British tool maker
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
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
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Edmund Cartwright, engraving by James Thomson
Edmund Cartwright
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Charles Wheatstone.
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