List of Cornish engineers and inventors
Introduction This is a '''list of engineers and inventors from Cornwall''', England, United Kingdom. * John Arnold, watchmaker and pioneer of the marine chronometer* William Bickford, inventor of the safety fuse* Joseph Henry Collins, mining engineer, mineralogist and geologist * ''Sir'' John Coode, civil engineer* William Cookworthy, discoverer of china clay (kaolinite) in Cornwall * Sir Humphry Davy, scientist, inventor and President of the Royal Society* Sir Goldsworthy Gurney, inventor of limelight*Jonathan Hornblower, inventor of the compound engine and the steam valve * William Husband, civil and mechanical engineer* Thomas Brown Jordan, engineer* Michael Loam, inventor of the man engine*''Sir'' Thomas Matthews, civil engineer and builder of lighthouses* William Murdoch, engineer, inventor and sometime Cornish resident* Andrew Pears, inventor of transparent soap* William Westcott Rundell, inventor and engineer from Falmouth* Adrian Stephens, inventor of the steam whistle* Richard Tangye, engineer* John Taylor, inventor of the Cornish rolls*Joseph Thomas, architect and civil engineer* Joseph Treffry, engineer and industrialist* Henry Trengrouse, inventor of a rocket-powered maritime rescue system* Richard Trevithick, inventor, engineer and builder of the first steam locomotive*Robert Trewhella (1830-1909; :it:Robert Trewhella), railway engineer and contractor* Andrew Vivian, Trevithick's cousin and collaborator, and captain of Dolcoath Mine* Arthur Woolf, inventor of the high pressure compound steam engine
See also *List of Cornish scientists and inventors
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