CONTENTS Benjamin Franklin John Fitch Nathan Read Oliver Evans Robert Fulton John Stevens Robert L. Stevens Eli Whitney Thomas Blanchard Elias Howe John Ericsson Peter Cooper George H. Corliss Alexander L. Holley William R. Jones James B. Eads Richard Arkwright Thomas Newcomen James Watt Matthew Boulton William Murdock William Symington Richard Trevithick Henry Maudsley George Stephenson I. K. Brunel James Nasmyth Alfried Krupp Charles Babbage Sir Joseph Whitworth Sir Henry Bessemer Sir William Siemens