| |  | James Watt (19 January 1736 - 19 August 1819) was a Scottish inventor and engineer whose improvements to the steam engine were fundamental to the... |  | George Stephenson was an English mechanical engineer who designed the famous and historically important steam locomotive named "Rocket" and is... |  | David Jones (25 October 1834 - 2 December 1906) was locomotive superintendent for the Highland Railway in Scotland. He was credited with the design... |  | 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... |  | Thomas Savery (c. 1650 - 1715) was an English inventor, born at Shilstone, a manor house near Modbury, Devon, England. Initially interested in... |  | Matthew Murray was a steam engine and machine tool manufacturer, who designed and built the first commercially viable steam locomotive, the twin... |  | Hero (or Heron) of Alexandria was a Hellenistic engineer and geometer who flourished in Alexandria, Roman Egypt. Among his most famous inventions... |  | Dionysius Lardner (April 3, 1793 - April 29, 1859), Irish scientific writer, was born at Dublin. His father, a solicitor, wished his son to follow... |  | William Symington (1764-1831) was a Scottish engineer and inventor, and the builder of the first practical steamboat. Symington was born in... |  | Robert Henry Thurston was the first professor of mechanical engineering at Stevens Institute of Technology (in 1871). There he established... | |
