James Watt19 January 1736, Scottish
Inventor of Steam Engine
Eli Whitney08 December 1765, American
American inventor
Humphry Davy17 December 1778, British
Inventor of Davy Lamp
Samuel Morse27 April 1791, American
Painter
Joseph Priestley24 March 1733, British
Discoverer of Oxygen
George Stephenson09 June 1781, British
Father of Railways
Robert Fulton14 November 1765, American
American engineer & inventor
Nicéphore Niépce07 March 1765, French
Creator of World's First Permanent Photographic
Richard Arkwright23 December 1732, British
Inventor
Richard Trevithick13 April 1771, British
Pioneer of steam-powered road & rail transport
Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac06 December 1778, French
Chemist and Physicist
Augustin-Jean Fresnel10 May 1788, French
Physicist
Peter Cooper12 February 1791, American
Industrialist & Inventors
René Laennec17 February 1781, French
Inventor of Stethoscope
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
Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit24 May 1686, Polish
Physicist, Inventor
George Cayley27 December 1773, British
Aeronautical engineer, Engineer, Politician
Joseph-Ignace Guillotin28 May 1738, French
Physician, Politician, Inventor
Johann Wolfgang Döbereiner13 December 1780, German
Chemist
Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot26 February 1725, French
combat engineer
Claude Chappe25 December 1763, French
Inventor
James Hargreaves1720 AD, British
carpenter, inventor, engineer
Jacques Charles12 November 1746, French
Physicist, Chemist, Inventor, Balloonist,
David Brewster11 December 1781, British, Scottish
Botanist, Civil engineer, Physicist, Engineer,
David Rittenhouse08 April 1732, American
Astronomer
Joseph Marie Jacquard07 July 1752, French
Inventor, Weaver, Merchant
William Murdoch21 August 1754, British
Inventor, Engineer
Karl Drais29 April 1785, German
Inventor, Forester
Pierre Choderlos de Laclos18 October 1741, French
Writer, Inventor, Novelist, Officer
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Oliver Evans13 September 1755, American
Inventor
Jacques de Vaucanson24 February 1709, French
Inventor, Engineer
Samuel Crompton03 December 1753, British
Inventor
Joseph Bramah13 April 1748, British
Civil engineer, Engineer
Henry Maudslay22 August 1771, British
Innovator
Nicolas Appert17 November 1749, French
confectioner, inventor
Henry Shrapnel03 June 1761, British
Inventor
Rowland Hill03 December 1795, British
Educator
Charles Macintosh29 December 1766
Chemist, Inventor
Guillaume Amontons31 August 1663, French
Physicist
Wolfgang von Kempelen23 January 1734, Hungarian
Engineer, Writer, Painter, Playwright, Chess
Jean-Pierre Blanchard04 July 1753, French
Inventor, Balloonist
Philip Astley08 January 1742, British
Equestrian
William Sturgeon22 May 1783, British
Physicist, Inventor
André-Jacques Garnerin31 January 1769, French
Inventor, Balloonist
Alexander Gordon Laing27 December 1794, British
Explorer
John Kay23 June 1704, British
inventor
John Fitch21 January 1743, American
inventor, watchmaker, engineer, entrepreneur
Walter Hunt29 July 1796, American
inventor
Thomas Hancock08 May 1786, British
inventor, engineer
Friedrich Gottlob Koenig17 April 1774, German
Jean-Baptist-Point Du Sable1745 AD, Haitian, American
Pioneer