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.
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Benjamin Hick
Benjamin Hick (1 August 1790 – 9 September 1842) was an English civil and mechanical engineer, art collector and patron; his improvements to the steam engine and invention of scientific tools were held in high esteem by the engineering p ...
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Benet Woodcroft
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List of early locomotives of the London Brighton and South Coast Railway
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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
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