Johann Georg Bodmer (6 December 1786 – 29 May 1864) was a prolific Swiss inventor, making contributions to areas ranging from weaponry to steam engines, textile manufacture (machinery for wool spinning), and railroad construction. See also Benjamin Hick Benet Woodcroft List of early locomotives of the London Brighton and South Coast Railway References External links Polly Model Engineering Ltd, Anthony Mount Models, Bodmer’s Sliding Cylinder Engine 1841 1786 births 19th-century Swiss inventors Swiss railway mechanical engineers Swiss railway pioneers Swiss military engineers Steam engine engineers Machine tool builders People from Zürich People of the Industrial Revolution 19th-century Swiss engineers 1864 deaths 19th-century Swiss military personnel