Inventors who devised a specific machine or mechanical part and then built a manufacturing business or patent around it, such as ball bearings, conveyors, shearing machines, pumps, ice resurfacers, hovercraft and balancing vehicles. The group is made up of people remembered for one named machine rather than for a field of theory. Engine builders, clockmakers, automotive engineers and the inventors of weapons are grouped separately.
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Philip Vaughan (Wikipedia)
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Philip Vaughan was a Welsh inventor and ironmaster who patented the first design for a ball bearing in 1794.
Thomas Robins (inventor) (Wikipedia)
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Thomas Robins Jr. (September 1, 1868, November 4, 1957) was an American inventor and manufacturer.
Frederick Wolseley (Wikipedia)
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Frederick York Wolseley (16 March 1837-8 January 1899) was an Irish-born New South Wales inventor and woolgrower who invented and developed the first commercially successful sheep shearing machinery after extensive experimentation.
Wikipedia: Frank Zamboni
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Frank Joseph Zamboni Jr. (, Italian: [dzamˈboːni]; January 16, 1901, July 27, 1988) was an American businessman and inventor whose most famous invention is the modern ice resurfacer, with his surname being registered as a trademark for these devices.
Wikipedia: Dean Kamen
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Dean Lawrence Kamen (; born April 5, 1951) is an American engineer, inventor, and businessman.
Christopher Cockerell (Wikipedia)
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Sir Christopher Sydney Cockerell (4 June 1910-1 June 1999) was an English engineer, best known as the inventor of the hovercraft.
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