Find out more about the greatest 18th Century British Inventors & Discoverers, including Humphry Davy, Joseph Priestley, George Stephenson, Richard Arkwright and Richard Trevithick

Famous 18th Century British Inventors & Discoverers

Humphry DavyHumphry Davy
17 December 1778
Inventor of Davy Lamp
Joseph PriestleyJoseph Priestley
24 March 1733
Discoverer of Oxygen

George StephensonGeorge Stephenson
09 June 1781
Father of Railways

Richard ArkwrightRichard Arkwright
23 December 1732
Inventor

Richard TrevithickRichard Trevithick
13 April 1771
Pioneer of steam-powered road & rail transport

Peter Mark RogetPeter Mark Roget
18 January 1779
Lexicographer
Edmund CartwrightEdmund Cartwright
24 April 1743
Inventor

John WilkinsonJohn Wilkinson
1728 AD
Pioneer in cast iron manufacturing

William MurdochWilliam Murdoch
21 August 1754
Inventor, Engineer

George CayleyGeorge Cayley
27 December 1773
Aeronautical engineer, Engineer, Politician
James HargreavesJames Hargreaves
1720 AD
carpenter, inventor, engineer

David BrewsterDavid Brewster
11 December 1781
Botanist, Civil engineer, Physicist, Engineer,
Joseph BramahJoseph Bramah
13 April 1748
Civil engineer, Engineer

William SturgeonWilliam Sturgeon
22 May 1783
Physicist, Inventor

John KayJohn Kay
23 June 1704
inventor
Thomas HancockThomas Hancock
08 May 1786
inventor, engineer