List of Cornish engineers and inventors

This is a list of engineers and inventors from Cornwall, England, United Kingdom.

John Arnold, watchmaker and pioneer of the marine chronometer^[1]
William Bickford, inventor of the safety fuse^[2]
Joseph Henry Collins, mining engineer, mineralogist and geologist ^[3]
Sir John Coode, civil engineer^[4]
William Cookworthy, discoverer of china clay (kaolinite) in Cornwall ^[5]
Sir Humphry Davy, scientist, inventor and President of the Royal Society^[6]
Sir Goldsworthy Gurney, inventor of limelight^[7]
Jonathan Hornblower, inventor of the compound engine and the steam valve^[8]
William Husband, civil and mechanical engineer^[9]
Thomas Brown Jordan, engineer^[10]
Michael Loam, inventor of the man engine^[11]
Sir Thomas Matthews, civil engineer and builder of lighthouses
William Murdoch, engineer, inventor and sometime Cornish resident^[12]
Andrew Pears, inventor of transparent soap^{[citation needed]}
William Westcott Rundell, inventor and engineer from Falmouth
Adrian Stephens, inventor of the steam whistle^[13]
Richard Tangye, engineer^[14]
John Taylor, inventor of the Cornish rolls^[15]
Joseph Thomas, architect and civil engineer
Joseph Treffry, engineer and industrialist^[16]
Henry Trengrouse, inventor of a rocket-powered maritime rescue system^[17]
Richard Trevithick, inventor, engineer and builder of the first steam locomotive^[18]
Robert Trewhella (1830-1909; it:Robert Trewhella), railway engineer and contractor^[19]
Andrew Vivian, Trevithick's cousin and collaborator, and captain of Dolcoath Mine^[20]
Arthur Woolf, inventor of the high pressure compound steam engine^[21]

See also