James Watt19 January 1736, Scottish
Inventor of Steam Engine
Samuel Morse27 April 1791, American
Painter
Humphry Davy17 December 1778, British
Inventor of Davy Lamp
Eli Whitney08 December 1765, American
American inventor
Joseph Priestley24 March 1733, British
Discoverer of Oxygen
Nicéphore Niépce07 March 1765, French
Creator of World's First Permanent Photographic
George Stephenson09 June 1781, British
Father of Railways
Robert Fulton14 November 1765, American
American engineer & inventor
Richard Arkwright23 December 1732, British
Inventor
Richard Trevithick13 April 1771, British
Pioneer of steam-powered road & rail transport
René Laennec17 February 1781, French
Inventor of Stethoscope
Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac06 December 1778, French
Chemist and Physicist
Augustin-Jean Fresnel10 May 1788, French
Physicist
Peter Cooper12 February 1791, American
Industrialist & Inventors
Edmund Cartwright24 April 1743, British
Inventor
Peter Mark Roget18 January 1779, British
Lexicographer
John Wilkinson1728 AD, British
Pioneer in cast iron manufacturing
Alessandro Volta18 February 1745, Italian
Physicist, Inventor, University teacher
Joseph-Ignace Guillotin28 May 1738, French
Physician, Politician, Inventor
Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit24 May 1686, Polish
Physicist, Inventor
John Herschel07 March 1792, British
Polymath
Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot26 February 1725, French
combat engineer
David Rittenhouse08 April 1732, American
Astronomer
George Cayley27 December 1773, British
Engineer
André-Jacques Garnerin31 January 1769, French
Inventor, Balloonist
Joseph Marie Jacquard07 July 1752, French
Inventor
Johann Wolfgang Döbereiner13 December 1780, German
Chemist
William Murdoch21 August 1754, Scottish
Engineer
Pierre Choderlos de Laclos18 October 1741, French
Writer, Inventor, Novelist, Officer
Nicolas Appert17 November 1749, French
confectioner, inventor
James Hargreaves1720 AD, British
carpenter, inventor, engineer
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David Brewster11 December 1781, British, Scottish
Botanist, Civil engineer, Physicist, Engineer,
Jacques Charles12 November 1746, French
Physicist, Chemist, Inventor, Balloonist,
Claude Chappe25 December 1763, French
Inventor
Hennig Brand1630 AD, German
Merchant
Karl Drais29 April 1785, German
Inventor, Forester
Matthias W. Baldwin10 December 1795, American
Inventor
Oliver Evans13 September 1755, American
Inventor
Jacques de Vaucanson24 February 1709, French
Inventor, Engineer
Ebenezer Kinnersley30 November 1711, British, American
Scientist
Henry Maudslay22 August 1771, British
Innovator
Joseph Bramah13 April 1748, British
Civil engineer, Engineer
William Thornton20 May 1759, British, American
Physician
Samuel Crompton03 December 1753, British
Inventor
Charles Macintosh29 December 1766
Chemist, Inventor
Jean-Pierre Blanchard04 July 1753, French
Inventor, Balloonist
Wolfgang von Kempelen23 January 1734, Hungarian
Engineer, Writer, Painter, Playwright, Chess
Guillaume Amontons31 August 1663, French
Physicist
Henry Shrapnel03 June 1761, British
Inventor
David Bushnell30 August 1740, American
Inventor
Henry Deringer26 October 1786, American
Gunsmith
Christian Friedrich Schönbein18 October 1799, Swiss, German
Chemist
William Sturgeon22 May 1783, British
Physicist, Inventor
Jacob Perkins09 July 1766, American
Inventor
Percivall Pott06 January 1714, British
Surgeon
Philip Astley08 January 1742, British
Equestrian
Bernard Courtois08 February 1777, French
Chemist
Ewald Georg von Kleist10 June 1700, Polish
Jurist
Alexander Gordon Laing27 December 1794, British
Explorer
Theobald Boehm09 April 1794, German
Inventor
Robert Stirling25 October 1790, Scottish
Clergyman
Thomas Earnshaw04 February 1749, British
Watchmaker
John Claudius Loudon08 April 1783, Scottish
Botanist
Benjamin Huntsman04 June 1704, British
Inventor
Samuel Morey23 October 1762, American
Inventor
Henry Miller Shreve21 October 1785, American
Inventor
Christopher Polhem18 December 1661, Swedish
Scientist
Henry Cort1740 AD, British
Ironmaster
Jan van der Heyden05 March 1637, Dutch
Painter
Goldsworthy Gurney14 February 1793, British
Surgeon
Louis-Sébastien Lenormand25 May 1757, French
Chemist
Charles Xavier Thomas05 May 1785, French
Inventor
John Byrom29 February 1692, British
Poet
Bryan Donkin22 March 1768, British
Developer
Anselme Payen06 January 1795, French
Chemist
Eleanor Coade03 June 1733, British
Businesswoman
Jesse Ramsden06 October 1735, British
Mathematician
Richard Lovell Edgeworth31 May 1744, Irish, British
Politician
Eli Terry13 April 1772, American
Inventor
Johann Christoph Denner13 August 1655, German
Musical Instrument maker
John Blenkinsop1783 AD, British
Engineer
John Roebuck1718 AD, British
Inventor
Johann Nicolaus von Dreyse20 November 1787, German
Inventor
Sir William Congreve, 2nd Baronet20 May 1772, British
Inventor
William Symington1764 AD, Scottish
Engineer
Jeanne Villepreux-Power24 September 1794, French
Biologist
Alexander John Forsyth28 December 1768, British
Inventor
Giovanni Battista Amici25 March 1786, Italian
Astronomer
Benjamin Waterhouse04 March 1754, American
Physician
Marc Seguin20 April 1786, French
Engineer
James Beaumont Neilson22 June 1792, Scottish
Inventor
Andrew Meikle05 May 1719, Scottish
Engineer
Chauncey Jerome10 June 1793, American
Clockmaker
Fausto Elhuyar11 October 1755, Spanish
Chemist