Inventors / Engineers
- Sir Timothy Berners-Lee (born 1955), inventor of the World Wide Web
- Hubert Cecil Booth (1871–1955), inventor of the vacuum cleaner
- Joseph Bramah (1748–1814), inventor of the hydraulic press (beer pump)
- Christopher Cockerell (1910–1999), inventor of the hovercraft
- William Congreve (1772–1828), rocketry pioneer
- Abraham Darby (c. 1678 – 1717), ironmaster
- James Dyson (born 1947), inventor
- James Hargreaves (1720–1778), weaver and inventor
- Sir John Harington (1561–1612), poet and inventor of the first water closet
- John Harrison (1693–1776), clockmaker
- Rowland Hill (1795–1879), inventor of the modern postal service
- Archibald Low (1888–1956), radio guidance
- Thomas Newcomen (1664–1729), inventor
- Sir Isaac Newton (1642–1727), founder of modern physics, inventor of the reflector telescope
- James Starley (1831–1881), bicycle pioneer
- George Stephenson (1781–1848), engineer
- Joseph Wilson Swan (1823–1914), inventor of the light bulb
- Charles Wheatstone (1802–1875), inventor
- Sir Frank Whittle (1907–1996), inventor of the jet engine
- Sir Henry Cavendish (1731–1810), discoverer of hydrogen
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“A striking feature of moral and political argument in the modern world is the extent to which it is innovators, radicals, and revolutionaries who revive old doctrines, while their conservative and reactionary opponents are the inventors of new ones.”
—Alasdair Chalmers MacIntyre (b. 1929)