an English industrialist who pioneered the manufacture of cast iron and the use of cast-iron goods during the Industrial Revolution

a French physician and musician. His skill at carving his own wooden flutes led him to invent the stethoscope in 1816, while working at the Hôpital Necker.

a French sculptor in the Rococo style, especially noted for his works in marble, bronze, & terracotta.

a German pioneer of aviation who became known as the "flying man". He was the first person to make well-documented, repeated, successful flights with gliders,

a Cubist sculptor. He retained highly figurative and legible components in his work leading up to 1915–16, after which descriptive elements were muted, dominated by a synthetic style.

an English novelist and critic, best known for the satirical utopian novel Erewhon (1872) and the semi-autobiographical novel Ernest Pontifex or The Way of All Flesh,