![[In eighteenth-century Britain] engineers for the most began as simple workmen, skilful and ambitious but usually illiterate and self-taught. They were either millwrights like Bramah, mechanics like Murdoch and George Stephenson, or smiths like Newcomen and Maudslay.](/assets/img/quote-photos/in-eighteenth-century-britain-engineers-for-the-most-began-as-simple-workmen-s.jpg)
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