- male, deceased (1819)
- James Watt (19 January 1736 - 19 August 1819) was a Scottish inventor and engineer whose improvements to the steam engine were fundamental to the...
- male, deceased (1848)
- George Stephenson was an English mechanical engineer who designed the famous and historically important steam locomotive named "Rocket" and is...
- male, deceased (1715)
- Thomas Savery (c. 1650 - 1715) was an English inventor, born at Shilstone, a manor house near Modbury, Devon, England. Initially interested in...
- male, deceased (1819)
- Oliver Evans (13 September, 1755 - 15 April, 1819) was a United States inventor. Evans was born in Newport, Delaware. At the age of 14 he was...
- female, deceased (70)
- Hero (or Heron) of Alexandria was a Hellenistic engineer and geometer who flourished in Alexandria, Roman Egypt. Among his most famous inventions...
- male, 362 years old
- Denis Papin (22 August 1647 - c. 1712) was a French physicist, mathematician and inventor, best known for his pioneering invention of the steam...
- male, deceased (1839)
- William Murdoch (sometimes spelled Murdock) (August 21, 1754 - November 15, 1839) was a Scottish engineer and inventor. It is believed that his...
- male, deceased (1831)
- William Symington (1764-1831) was a Scottish engineer and inventor, and the builder of the first practical steamboat. Symington was born in...
- male, deceased (1804)
- Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot (26 February, 1725 - 2 October, 1804) was a French inventor believed to have built the first self-propelled mechanical...
- male
- Sir Samuel Brown was an English engineer who developed an internal combustion engine. In patents dated 1823 and 1826, Brown proposed to fill a...
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