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1 Ada Lovelace

Dec 10, 1815
Piccadilly
English mathematician, considered the first computer programmer

2 Arthur C. Clarke

Dec 16, 1917
Minehead
British science fiction writer, science writer, inventor, undersea explorer, and television series host

3 Humphry Davy

Dec 17, 1778
Penzance
English chemist

4 Richard Arkwright

Dec 23, 1732
Preston
textile entrepreneur; developer of the cotton mill

5 George Cayley

Dec 27, 1773
Scarborough
British aeronautics engineer

6 James Hargreaves

Dec 13, 1720
Blackburn
Inventor of the spinning jenny

7 Alexander Parkes

Dec 29, 1813
Birmingham
metallurgist and inventor of the early plastic Parkesine

8 Joseph Whitworth

Dec 21, 1803
Stockport
English engineer, entrepreneur

9 Samuel Crompton

Dec 03, 1753
Bolton
Inventor, pioneer of the spinning industry

10 Charles Macintosh

Dec 29, 1766
Glasgow
British chemist

11 Eliza Lucas

Dec 28, 1722
British Leeward Islands
Developed indigo as a cash crop in in colonial South Carolina.

12 David Brewster

Dec 11, 1781
Jedburgh
British astronomer and mathematician

13 Rowland Hill

Dec 03, 1795
Kidderminster
English educational, social and postal reformer

14 Jock Lewes

Dec 21, 1913
Kolkata
British Army officer

15 John Kemp Starley

Dec 14, 1854
Walthamstow
British businessman

16 John Nevil Maskelyne

Dec 22, 1839
Cheltenham
English magician and inventor of the pay toilet

17 John Milne

Dec 30, 1850
Liverpool
British geologist

18 Alexander Wood (physician)

Dec 10, 1817
Cupar
Scottish physician

19 Norman Selfe

Dec 09, 1839
Teddington
Australian engineer and technical education advocate

20 John Bennet Lawes

Dec 28, 1814
Hertfordshire
English scientist who invented synthetic fertilizer
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