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Born July 31, 1803 • Sweden
Died March 8, 1889 (aged 85) • New York CityNew York
Inventions “Monitor”monitor

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Sir Samuel Bentham
British engineer
Robert Livingston Stevens
American engineer
Nathan Read
American engineer and inventor
Elisha King Root
American inventor, engineer, and manufacturer
Richard Trevithick, detail of an oil painting by John Linnell, 1816; in the Science Museum, London.
Richard Trevithick
English engineer
William Froude
British engineer
Gottlieb Daimler
Gottlieb Daimler
German engineer and inventor
Nikolaus Otto, c. 1868
Nikolaus Otto
German engineer
Ctesibius of Alexandria
Ctesibius Of Alexandria
Greek physicist and inventor
Sir John Isaac Thornycroft
British architect and engineer
Paul Gottlieb Nipkow
German scientist
Robert Moog
American electrical engineer
Watch a silent short of Thomas Edison, who invented the phonograph and incandescent electric light
Thomas Edison
American inventor
Alexander Graham Bell
Alexander Graham Bell
American inventor
Robert Fulton
Robert Fulton
American inventor
Alfred Nobel
Alfred Nobel
Swedish inventor
James B. Eads
James B. Eads
American engineer
R. Buckminster Fuller shown with a geodesic dome constructed as the U.S. pavilion at the American Exchange Exhibit, Moscow, 1959
R. Buckminster Fuller
American engineer, architect, and futurist
Jack Kilby
American engineer
Noyce, Robert
Robert Noyce
American engineer

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