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Sir John Bennet Lawes, 1st Baronet
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Born December 28, 1814 • England
Died August 31, 1900 (aged 85) • England
Founder Rothamsted Experimental Station
Inventions superphosphate
Subjects Of Study agronomy • crop production • fertilizer
Sir Henry Gilbert
British chemist
Arkwright, detail of an engraving by J. Jenkins after a portrait by Joseph Wright
Sir Richard Arkwright
British industrialist and inventor
Charles Chubb
British inventor
Seth Boyden
American inventor
Thaddeus Fairbanks
American inventor
Alfred Nobel
Alfred Nobel
Swedish inventor
James Watt
James Watt
Scottish inventor
Werner von Siemens, drawing by Ismael Gentz, 1887
Werner von Siemens
German electrical engineer
George Eastman, 1926.
George Eastman
American inventor, entrepreneur, and manufacturer
Edward Murray East
American scientist
Jokichi Takamine
Japanese-American biochemist
Herman Hollerith
American inventor
Jethro Tull, detail of an oil painting by an unknown artist; in the collection of the Royal Society for Agriculture, London
Jethro Tull
British agronomist and inventor
Nasmyth, James
James Nasmyth
Scottish engineer
Leo Fender
American inventor and manufacturer
spinning jenny
James Hargreaves
English inventor
Hoe, Richard March
Richard March Hoe
American inventor and manufacturer
Gottlieb Daimler
Gottlieb Daimler
German engineer and inventor
Leo Baekeland
Leo Baekeland
American chemist
internal-combustion engine
Étienne Lenoir
Belgian inventor

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