James Watt19 January 1736, Scottish
Inventor of Steam Engine
Samuel Morse27 April 1791, American
Painter
Joseph Priestley24 March 1733, British
Discoverer of Oxygen
Humphry Davy17 December 1778, British
Inventor of Davy Lamp
Eli Whitney08 December 1765, American
American inventor
George Stephenson09 June 1781, British
Father of Railways
Robert Fulton14 November 1765, American
American engineer & inventor
Richard Arkwright23 December 1732, British
Inventor
Nicéphore Niépce07 March 1765, French
Creator of World's First Permanent Photographic
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
Peter Mark Roget18 January 1779, British
Lexicographer
Edmund Cartwright24 April 1743, British
Inventor
John Wilkinson1728 AD, British
Pioneer in cast iron manufacturing
William Murdoch21 August 1754, British
Inventor, Engineer
Alessandro Volta18 February 1745, Italian
Physicist, Inventor, University teacher
Victor of Aveyron1785 AD, French
Discoverer
Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit24 May 1686, Polish
Physicist, Inventor
Louis Daguerre18 November 1787, French
Artist
George Cayley27 December 1773, British
Aeronautical engineer, Engineer, Politician
Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot26 February 1725, French
combat engineer
Joseph-Ignace Guillotin28 May 1738, French
Physician, Politician, Inventor
Claude Chappe25 December 1763, French
Inventor
James Hargreaves1720 AD, British
carpenter, inventor, engineer
Joseph Marie Jacquard07 July 1752, French
Inventor, Weaver, Merchant
David Brewster11 December 1781, British, Scottish
Botanist, Civil engineer, Physicist, Engineer,
Jacques Charles12 November 1746, French
Physicist, Chemist, Inventor, Balloonist,
Pierre Choderlos de Laclos18 October 1741, French
Writer, Inventor, Novelist, Officer
Karl Drais29 April 1785, German
Inventor, Forester
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Oliver Evans13 September 1755, American
Inventor
Joseph Bramah13 April 1748, British
Civil engineer, Engineer
Jacques de Vaucanson24 February 1709, French
Inventor, Engineer
Nicolas Appert17 November 1749, French
confectioner, inventor
Charles Macintosh29 December 1766
Chemist, Inventor
Wolfgang von Kempelen23 January 1734, Hungarian
Engineer, Writer, Painter, Playwright, Chess
Jean-Pierre Blanchard04 July 1753, French
Inventor, Balloonist
William Sturgeon22 May 1783, British
Physicist, Inventor
André-Jacques Garnerin31 January 1769, French
Inventor, Balloonist
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