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James Hargreaves
James Hargreaves was the inventor of the spinning Jenny in 1764 at the age of 44. His death was in 1778 at the age of 57. -
James Watt
James Watt was the inventor of the steam engine in 1776. Watt died in 1819 at the age of 83 -
William Murdoch
Murdoch was the inventor of the oscillating cylinder steam engine, and gas lighting is attributed to him in the early 1790s, also the term "gasometer". WIlliam Murdoch lived until the age of 85 where he died in 1839. -
George Stephenson
George Stephenson was an English civil engineer and mechanical engineer who built the first public inter-city railway line in the world to use steam locomotives. George died in 1848 at the age of 67. -
Michael Faraday
Faraday was an English scientist who contributed to the fields of electromagnetism. His main discoveries include those of electromagnetic induction, diamagnetism and electrolysis. Faraday died at 76 in 1867 -
Karl Benz
Karl Benz invented petrol powered automobiles. He is the pioneering founder of the Mercedes Benz. KArl died at the age of 84 in 1929. -
Alexander Graham Bell
Graham bell was the inventor of the first ever telephone.He came up with the idea after trying to make a tool for the deaf. Graham bell died at the age of 75 in 1922. -
Henry Ford
Ford was an merican industrialist who created the Ford motor company. He was sponsor of the developing line in technique of massproduction. -
Wilbur Wright
WIlbur was the older brother of Orville Wright. Wilbur died at the age of 45 while his brother Orville died later on at the age of 77. -
Orville Wright
Orville and his brother WIlbur built the first ever successful Airplane and making the first controlled, powered and sustained heavier-than-air human flight.
