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    Col. John Stevens, III (June 26, 1749 – March 6, 1838) was an American lawyer, engineer, and inventor who constructed the first U.S. steam locomotive,...
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  • John Stevens may refer to: John Stevens (inventor, born 1749) (1749–1838), American engineer who developed the multitubular boiler engine and the screw...
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  • Phillip Stevens (1861–1941), Australian wireless experimenter and public servant John Stevens (inventor, born 1749) (1749–1838), U.S. inventor, recipient...
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    establish the Stevens Institute of Technology. Stevens was born at Castle Point, Hoboken, New Jersey, the son of Colonel John Stevens III (1749–1838) and...
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  • This is a list of notable inventors. Contents:  A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z See also References Vitaly Abalakov (1906–1986), Russia...
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  • Inventors Hall of Fame (NIHF) inductees includes over 600 inventors spanning three centuries of lifetimes. John Fitch was the earliest born inventor inducted...
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    (1800–1874), naturalist Alec Jeffreys (born 1950), geneticist Edward Jenner (1749–1823), pioneer immunologist John Gwyn Jeffreys (1809–1885), conchologist...
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  • the treatment of neurological disease Federico Faggin (born 1941) - physicist, engineer, inventor and entrepreneur; best known for designing the first commercial...
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    antiquary and Jacobite Sir John D'Oyly, 4th Baronet (1702–1773), 4th baronet of Chislehampton William Horton (c.1708–1749), leading military aide and...
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    daughter Elizabeth, she was the grandmother of John Stevens III (1749–1838), a lawyer, engineer, and inventor who constructed the first U.S. steam locomotive...
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  • Augustus Stevens (1795–1868), engineer, inventor and entrepreneur Colonel John Stevens (1749–1838), inventor; founder of Hoboken John Cox Stevens (1785–1857)...
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    daughter of Continental Congressman John Stevens and sister of the inventor John Stevens III. Following their marriage, he built a home south of Clermont...
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  • Congress from South Carolina (born 1749) September 9 – John Singleton Copley, painter (born 1738; died in London) September 24 – John Sevier, soldier, frontiersman...
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    daughter Elizabeth, he was the grandfather of John Stevens III (1749–1838), a lawyer, engineer, and inventor who constructed the first U.S. steam locomotive...
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    1038/nphoton.2012.332. ISSN 1749-4885. A Handbook of determinative methods in clay mineralogy Michael Jeffrey Wilson, Michael John Wilson Blackie, 1987 "Trees...
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  • microbiologist who won Nobel prize for work on typhus Ian Olver (born 1953) Gary Onik (born 1952) — inventor and pioneer of ultrasound guided cryosurgery for both...
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  • painter, sculptor, architect, musician, scientist, mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, geologist, cartographer, botanist, and writer. Described as...
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    Whitney – inventor Kenneth G. Wilson – theoretical physicist John Winthrop – mathematician, physicist, astronomer Robert Wood – physicist, inventor Sewall...
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    1947), inventor James Hargreaves (1720–1778), weaver and inventor Sir John Harington (1561–1612), poet and inventor of the first water closet John Harrison...
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    public. In 1792, Benjamin Waddington (1749-1828), the third son of the Rev. Joshua (Waddington (1711-1780), who was born in Walkeringham, Nottinghamshire bought...
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    and built the Union Canal John Logie Baird (1888–1946), television Nicol Hugh Baird (1796–1849), surveyor, engineer and inventor who emigrated to Canada...
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  • presenter William Jones (1675-1749), mathematician Brian David Josephson (born 1940), physicist, Nobel Laureate, inventor of the Josephson junction Edward...
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    Benjamin Franklin (category 18th-century American inventors)
    April 17, 1790) was an American polymath, a leading writer, scientist, inventor, statesman, diplomat, printer, publisher, and political philosopher. Among...
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  • William Bacon Stevens (1815–1887), American bishop William Bacon Wright (1830–1895), Confederate politician Abra Bacon, character in John Steinbeck's East...
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    adventurer (b. 1741) April 30 – John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich, English statesman (b. 1718) May 10 – John Stevens, American delegate to the Continental...
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  • (1910-1995) Hubert Chanson – Australian engineering academic (born 1961) Jacques Charles – French inventor, scientist and mathematician (1746–1823) Jean-Yves Chemin –...
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    Edwin Howard Armstrong (category 20th-century American inventors)
    (December 18, 1890 – February 1, 1954) was an American electrical engineer and inventor, who developed FM (frequency modulation) radio and the superheterodyne...
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  • never advanced further. Steven D. Foster, American politician Benjamin Franklin, American inventor and statesman. St. John's Lodge, Philadelphia, February...
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  • glaciologist John Paulitious (died 1645), Edinburgh's first plague doctor Marion Ross (1903–1994), physicist Daniel Rutherford (1749–1819), physician...
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    Colonial Period to the Gilded Age, which were achieved by inventors who were either native-born or naturalized citizens of the United States. Copyright...
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