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
 * 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