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Born December 3, 1753 • England
Died June 26, 1827 (aged 73) • Bolton • England
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Richard Roberts
British inventor
Richard Trevithick, detail of an oil painting by John Linnell, 1816; in the Science Museum, London.
Richard Trevithick
English engineer
Charles Babbage
Charles Babbage
British inventor and mathematician
Robert Moog
American electrical engineer
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
Richard Edgeworth, engraving by A. Cardon, 1812
Richard Lovell Edgeworth
Irish inventor
Thomas Newcomen
British engineer and inventor
Arkwright, detail of an engraving by J. Jenkins after a portrait by Joseph Wright
Sir Richard Arkwright
British industrialist and inventor
spinning jenny
James Hargreaves
English inventor
Charles Wheatstone.
Sir Charles Wheatstone
British physicist
John Hadley
British mathematician
Sir William Fothergill Cooke
British inventor
Sir Henry Christopher Mance
British scientist
Sir William Chandler Roberts-Austen
British metallurgist
Joseph Jenks
British-American inventor
Gowin Knight
English scientist
Thaddeus Fairbanks
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Conrad Schlumberger
German geophysicist
Johannes von Mikulicz-Radecki
Polish surgeon
Marcel Schlumberger
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