Humphry Davy17 December 1778
Inventor of Davy Lamp
Joseph Priestley24 March 1733
Discoverer of Oxygen
George Stephenson09 June 1781
Father of Railways
Richard Arkwright23 December 1732
Inventor
Richard Trevithick13 April 1771
Pioneer of steam-powered road & rail transport
Edmund Cartwright24 April 1743
Inventor
Peter Mark Roget18 January 1779
Lexicographer
John Wilkinson1728 AD
Pioneer in cast iron manufacturing
John Herschel07 March 1792
Polymath
George Cayley27 December 1773
Engineer
David Brewster11 December 1781
Botanist, Civil engineer, Physicist, Engineer,
James Hargreaves1720 AD
carpenter, inventor, engineer
Henry Maudslay22 August 1771
Innovator
Ebenezer Kinnersley30 November 1711
Scientist
Joseph Bramah13 April 1748
Civil engineer, Engineer
William Thornton20 May 1759
Physician
Samuel Crompton03 December 1753
Inventor
Henry Shrapnel03 June 1761
Inventor
Percivall Pott06 January 1714
Surgeon
Philip Astley08 January 1742
Equestrian
William Sturgeon22 May 1783
Physicist, Inventor
Thomas Earnshaw04 February 1749
Watchmaker
Alexander Gordon Laing27 December 1794
Explorer
Benjamin Huntsman04 June 1704
Inventor
Goldsworthy Gurney14 February 1793
Surgeon
John Byrom29 February 1692
Poet
Henry Cort1740 AD
Ironmaster
Jesse Ramsden06 October 1735
Mathematician
Richard Lovell Edgeworth31 May 1744
Politician
Bryan Donkin22 March 1768
Developer
Eleanor Coade03 June 1733
Businesswoman
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John Blenkinsop1783 AD
Engineer
Sir William Congreve, 2nd Baronet20 May 1772
Inventor
John Roebuck1718 AD
Inventor
Alexander John Forsyth28 December 1768
Inventor
William Hedley13 July 1779
Engineer
William Cockerill1759 AD
Inventor
Arthur Woolf31 October 1766
Engineer
John Heathcoat07 August 1783
Inventor
Jonathan Hornblower05 July 1753
Pioneer
Daniel Quare1648 AD
Clockmaker
William Radcliffe1761 AD
Inventor
Chester Moore Hall09 December 1703
Lawyer
Thomas Boulsover1705 AD
Inventor
Gowin Knight10 September 1713
Scientist
Lionel Lukin18 May 1742
Inventor
William Nicholson13 December 1753
Chemist and inventor
Jonathan Hulls1699 AD
Inventor
Robert Hoe29 October 1784
Machinist
John Wyatt31 March 1700
Inventor
Samuel Hall1781 AD
Engineer
Thomas Hancock08 May 1786
inventor, engineer
Charles Chubb1779 AD
Businessman
Thomas Mudge1715 AD
Watchmaker
Johann Christoph Zumpe14 June 1726
Piano maker
David Hartley, the Younger1732 AD
Politician and inventor