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Oliver Evans.
Oliver Evans
American inventor
Sir Marc Isambard Brunel
Sir Marc Isambard Brunel
French-British engineer
Elmer Ambrose Sperry
American inventor
Johann Georg Bodmer
Swiss inventor
Arkwright, detail of an engraving by J. Jenkins after a portrait by Joseph Wright
Sir Richard Arkwright
British industrialist and inventor
Henry Maudslay
British engineer and inventor
Edmund Cartwright, engraving by James Thomson
Edmund Cartwright
British inventor
Perkins, Jacob
Jacob Perkins
American inventor
Vincent Bendix
American inventor and industrialist
Jean-Charles de Borda
French naval officer and physicist
Matzeliger
Jan Ernst Matzeliger
Dutch inventor
Robert Bosch
German engineer
Edward Weston
Edward Weston
American engineer and industrialist
William Cockerill
British inventor
Jesse Ramsden
British tool maker
Wool-carding machine by Lewis Paul
Lewis Paul
English inventor
George Dollond
British optician
John Wyatt
English mechanic

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