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19th-century English engineers

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Charles Babbage
English mathematician, philosopher, and engineer (1791–1871)
George Stephenson
English civil and mechanical engineer and the "Father of Railways" (1781-1848)
Richard Trevithick
British inventor and mining engineer (1771-1833)
Isambard Kingdom Brunel
British mechanical and civil engineer (1806-1859)
Charles Wheatstone
British scientist and inventor (1802–1875)
Hertha Ayrton
English engineer, mathematician and inventor (1854-1923)
Robert Stephenson
British railway engineer and locomotive designer (1803-1859)
William Smith
geologist credited with the first nationwide map (1769-1839)
William Armstrong, 1st Baron Armstrong
English inventor, scientist, engineer, industrialist (1810-1900)
William Edward Ayrton
English physicist and electrical engineer (1847-1908)
John Hopkinson
British physicist and electrical engineer (1849–1898)
Willoughby Smith
British engineer (1828–1891)
Daniel Gooch
British railway engineer (1816-1889)
Sarah Guppy
English inventor
William Jessop
British civil engineer (1745-1814)
Horace Darwin
British engineer (1851-1928)
Edmund Sharpe
English architect and engineer (1809-1877)
Charles Tilston Bright
British engineer and politician (1832-1888)
Joseph Locke
English civil engineer (1805-1860)
John Wolfe-Barry
English civil engineer (1836–1918)
Timothy Hackworth
British steam locomotive engineer (1786-1850)
Edward Harland
British politician (1831–1895)
Arthur Cotton
General and engineer (1803-1899)
Edwin Beard Budding
inventor of the lawnmower and adjustable spanner (1795–1846)
Samuel Clegg
English civil engineer
George Jackson Churchward
English railway engineer and locomotive designer
Thomas Harrison
English architect; (1744-1829)
William Adams
locomotive superintendent of several railways (1823–1904)
Sir John Aird, 1st Baronet
British politician (1833–1911)
Benjamin Outram
British civil engineer, surveyor and industrialist (1764-1805)
George Parker Bidder
British engineer and calculating prodigy
John Fowler
agricultural engineer (born 1826)
R. E. B. Crompton
British engineer (1845-1940)
John Rennie the Younger
British civil engineer (1794-1874)
James Malcolm Rymer
British nineteenth century writer of penny dreadfuls (1814–1884)
George Rennie
British engineer (1791-1866)
John Watkins Brett
British electrical engineer
Thomas Fowler
British inventor
Edward Bury
British engineer (1794–1858)
Henry Marc Brunel
British engineer (1842-1903)
Claude W. Kinder
British engineer
William Cubitt
British civil engineer
Thomas Parker
English electrical engineer and inventor