| |  | Thomas Newcomen (born 28 February 1663; died 5 August 1729) was an ironmonger by trade and a Baptist lay preacher by calling. He was born in... |  | Elijah J. McCoy(May 2 1843 - October 10, 1929) was a Afro-Canadian inventor. McCoy had wanted to work as an engineer but was repeatedly frustrated... |  | Norbert Rillieux (March 17,1806 - October 8, 1894), inventor and engineer, is most noted for invention multiple-effect evaporator, an... |  | Thomas Savery (c. 1650 - 1715) was an English inventor, born at Shilstone, a manor house near Modbury, Devon, England. Initially interested in... |  | John Froelich was born on August 9th 1849 and died in 1933 from a heart attack. He was an inventor who lived in the U.S. state of Iowa, and... |  | Richard Steinheimer (1929) is considered to be one of the greatest American railroad photographers, often called the "Ansel Adams of railroad... |  | Richard Trevithick was a British inventor, engineer and builder of the first working railway steam locomotive. He was born at Tregajorran (in the... |  | Alfred Ely Beach was an inventor, publisher and patent lawyer. Beach was born in Springfield, Massachusetts and was the son of a prominent... |  | Hagen von Ortloff is a German TV presenter. He is most famous for "Eisenbahn-Romantik", a television programme about historical rail travel... | |
