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Johann Georg Bodmer (6 December 1786 – 29 May 1864) was a prolific Swiss inventor, making contributions to areas ranging from weaponry to
steam engines A steam engine is a heat engine that performs mechanical work using steam as its working fluid. The steam engine uses the force produced by steam pressure to push a piston back and forth inside a cylinder. This pushing force can be tr ...
, 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 pr ...
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List of early locomotives of the London Brighton and South Coast Railway The following table gives details of locomotives owned by the London, Brighton and South Coast Railway from its creation in July 1846 until the end of 1849. The locomotives acquired by the London Brighton and South Coast Railway at its creatio ...


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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 {{switzerland-bio-stub