Engineers and Inventors of the Industrial Revolution

The atlas holds 5 people and 79 moments here, from 1761 to 1833. The most recorded lives are George Washington, Thomas Jefferson and Michael Faraday.

George Washington
from 1775 to 1799
37 moments here
George Washington was a Virginia surveyor, planter, military commander, revolutionary leader, constitutional statesman, and the first president of…
Thomas Jefferson
from 1761 to 1826
25 moments here
Thomas Jefferson was an American lawyer, Virginia political leader, diplomat, secretary of state, vice president, and third president of the United…
Michael Faraday
from 1791 to 1831
13 moments here
English chemist and physicist whose experimental work transformed the study of electromagnetism and electrochemistry.…
Leonhard Euler
from 1766 to 1783
3 moments here
Swiss mathematician, physicist, astronomer, engineer, and polymath. Euler’s documented life moved from Basel and nearby Riehen to Saint Petersburg,…
Alfred Nobel
in 1833
1 moment here
Swedish chemist, engineer, inventor, and industrialist Alfred Bernhard Nobel (1833–1896) developed dynamite and other explosives, built businesses…