EWeek – Who are Some of the Great Engineers?

EWeek – As we are in the middle of Engineers Week, perhaps we should consider just who some of the great engineers are. Here is just a brief list:

1. Archimedes – greatest classical engineer
2. Leonardo da Vinci – inventions include flying machines, armored vehicles, the adding machine, the double hull and solar power concentration
3. George Stephenson – father of the railway
4. Steve Wozniak – development of Apple I and II
5. Robert Stephenson – expanded on father’s (George) railway development
6. Elon Musk – SpaceX, Tesla Motors and Solar City
7. Burt Rutan – aircraft design
8. Fazlur Rahman Khan – father of the modern ‘sky scraper’
9. Nikola Tesla – AC electrical power
10. Henry Ford – assembly line, mass production
11. Nikolaus Otto – internal combustion engine
12. Charles Babbage – programmable computer
13. George Westinghouse Jr. – railway brake and electrical power
14. Alan Turing – modern computer architecture
15. Thomas Edison – inventor, lasting electric light bulb
16. Gottlieb Daimler – internal combustion engines and automobiles
17. Orville and Wilbur Wright – first successful airplane
18. Lee de Forest – Father of radio, sound recording for movies
19. Frank Whittle – turbojet engine
20. Tommy Flowers – designed Colossus, first programmable electronic computer
21. Gustave Eiffel – french railway, Statue of Liberty, Eiffel Tower
22. Michael Faraday – electromagnetic induction
23. Alexander Graham Bell – telephone, communication for the deaf
24. James Watt – steam engine

 

References:

1. The 20 Greatest Engineers of All Time
2. Top 10 Greatest Engineers of all time
3. The 5 greatest engineers of all time
4. 5 Engineers That Have Changed the World
5. Top 10 remarkable engineers of all time
6. 5 GREATEST ENGINEERS OF ALL TIME
7. Top 10 engineers of all times