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