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- This is a list of engineers and inventors from Cornwall, England, United Kingdom.
* John Arnold, watchmaker and pioneer of the marine chronometer
* William Bickford, inventor of the safety fuse
* Joseph Henry Collins, mining engineer, mineralogist and geologist
* Sir John Coode, civil engineer
* William Cookworthy, discoverer of china clay (kaolinite) in Cornwall
* Sir Humphry Davy, scientist, inventor and President of the Royal Society
* Sir Goldsworthy Gurney, inventor of limelight
* Jonathan Hornblower, inventor of the compound engine and the steam valve
* William Husband, civil and mechanical engineer
* Thomas Brown Jordan, engineer
* Michael Loam, inventor of the man engine
* Sir Thomas Matthews, civil engineer and builder of lighthouses
* William Murdoch, engineer, inventor and sometime Cornish resident
* Andrew Pears, inventor of transparent soap
* William Westcott Rundell, inventor and engineer from Falmouth
* Adrian Stephens, inventor of the steam whistle
* Richard Tangye, engineer
* John Taylor, inventor of the Cornish rolls
* Joseph Thomas, architect and civil engineer
* Joseph Treffry, engineer and industrialist
* Henry Trengrouse, inventor of a rocket-powered maritime rescue system
* Richard Trevithick, inventor, engineer and builder of the first steam locomotive
* Robert Trewhella (1830-1909; it:Robert Trewhella), railway engineer and contractor
* Andrew Vivian, Trevithick's cousin and collaborator, and captain of Dolcoath Mine
* Arthur Woolf, inventor of the high pressure compound steam engine (en)
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- This is a list of engineers and inventors from Cornwall, England, United Kingdom.
* John Arnold, watchmaker and pioneer of the marine chronometer
* William Bickford, inventor of the safety fuse
* Joseph Henry Collins, mining engineer, mineralogist and geologist
* Sir John Coode, civil engineer
* William Cookworthy, discoverer of china clay (kaolinite) in Cornwall
* Sir Humphry Davy, scientist, inventor and President of the Royal Society
* Sir Goldsworthy Gurney, inventor of limelight
* Jonathan Hornblower, inventor of the compound engine and the steam valve
* William Husband, civil and mechanical engineer
* Thomas Brown Jordan, engineer
* Michael Loam, inventor of the man engine
* Sir Thomas Matthews, civil engineer and builder of lighthouses
* William Murdoch, engineer, inv (en)
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