| NAME |
OCCUPATION |
SUMMARY |
BORN |
DIED |
|
| Gene Amdahl
|
Engineer |
Parallel computing pioneer |
16-Nov-1922 |
TBD |
|
Ove Arup
|
Engineer |
Danish civil engineer |
16-Apr-1895 |
1988 |
DEAD
|
Sir Benjamin Baker
|
Engineer |
Bridged the Firth of Forth |
31-Mar-1840 |
19-May-1907 |
DEAD
|
| Cecil Balmond
|
Engineer |
Deputy Chairman, Ove Arup |
1943 |
TBD |
|
Nils Bohlin
|
Engineer |
Three-point safety belt |
17-Jul-1920 |
26-Sep-2002 |
DEAD
|
Paul Boucherot
|
Engineer |
Ocean thermal energy conversion |
03-Oct-1869 |
07-Aug-1943 |
DEAD
|
Isambard Kingdom Brunel
|
Engineer |
Chief engineer of the Great Western Railway |
09-Apr-1806 |
15-Sep-1859 |
DEAD
|
David Buick
|
Engineer |
Designed the first Buick motorcars |
17-Sep-1854 |
06-Mar-1929 |
DEAD
|
André Citroën
|
Engineer |
Europe's Henry Ford |
05-Feb-1878 |
03-Jul-1935 |
DEAD
|
Sir William Cubitt
|
Engineer |
British civil engineer |
1785 |
13-Oct-1861 |
DEAD
|
Gottlieb Daimler
|
Engineer |
Invented the motorcycle |
17-Mar-1834 |
06-Mar-1900 |
DEAD
|
| Mark Dean
|
Engineer |
Computer architecture |
02-Mar-1957 |
TBD |
|
| Dave Ditzel
|
Engineer |
Founder of Transmeta |
1956 |
TBD |
|
Lloyd H. Donnell
|
Engineer |
Donnell's thin shell theory |
20-May-1895 |
07-Nov-1997 |
DEAD
|
Daniel C. Drucker
|
Engineer |
Drucker's stability postulate |
1918 |
25-Aug-2001 |
DEAD
|
William F. Durand
|
Engineer |
National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics |
05-Mar-1859 |
09-Aug-1958 |
DEAD
|
William L. Emmet
|
Engineer |
All-electric warships |
10-Jul-1859 |
26-Sep-1941 |
DEAD
|
George Ferris
|
Engineer |
Ferris Wheel |
14-Feb-1859 |
22-Nov-1896 |
DEAD
|
John Ambrose Fleming
|
Engineer |
Invented the vacuum tube |
29-Nov-1849 |
19-Apr-1945 |
DEAD
|
John R. Freeman
|
Engineer |
Charles River Dam |
27-Jul-1855 |
06-Oct-1932 |
DEAD
|
Richard H. Gallagher
|
Engineer |
Finite element method |
17-Nov-1927 |
30-Sep-1997 |
DEAD
|
Henry Gantt
|
Engineer |
Gantt chart |
1861 |
23-Nov-1919 |
DEAD
|
Robert R. Gilruth
|
Engineer |
NASA scientist |
18-Oct-1913 |
17-Aug-2000 |
DEAD
|
| Richard J. Goldstein
|
Engineer |
Fluid mechanics |
1936 |
TBD |
|
Frederick A. Halsey
|
Engineer |
Kept America safe from the metric system |
12-Jul-1856 |
20-Oct-1935 |
DEAD
|
Oliver Heaviside
|
Engineer |
Kennelly-Heaviside layer |
18-May-1850 |
03-Feb-1925 |
DEAD
|
Mayo D. Hersey
|
Engineer |
Tribology |
30-Aug-1886 |
05-Sep-1978 |
DEAD
|
Nicholas J. Hoff
|
Engineer |
Aluminum in aircraft design |
03-Jan-1906 |
04-Aug-1997 |
DEAD
|
Alexander Lyman Holley
|
Engineer |
Designed steel foundries |
20-Jul-1832 |
29-Jan-1882 |
DEAD
|
| Tomlinson Holman
|
Engineer |
THX sound system |
07-Jun-1946 |
TBD |
|
Gottlob Honold
|
Engineer |
Invented the spark plug |
26-Aug-1876 |
17-Mar-1923 |
DEAD
|
John Hopkinson
|
Engineer |
English electrical engineer |
27-Jul-1849 |
27-Aug-1898 |
DEAD
|
August Horch
|
Engineer |
Founder of Audi |
12-Oct-1868 |
03-Feb-1951 |
DEAD
|
Godfrey N. Hounsfield
|
Engineer |
Computerized axial tomography (CAT scans) |
28-Aug-1919 |
12-Aug-2004 |
DEAD
|
Alec Issigonis
|
Engineer |
Designer of the Mini Cooper |
18-Nov-1906 |
02-Oct-1988 |
DEAD
|
| Caldwell Johnson
|
Engineer |
Designer, early NASA space program |
1919 |
TBD |
|
Kelly Johnson
|
Engineer |
Lockheed Skunk Works plane designer |
27-Feb-1910 |
21-Dec-1990 |
DEAD
|
Theodore D. Judah
|
Engineer |
American Transcontinental Railroad |
04-Mar-1826 |
02-Nov-1863 |
DEAD
|
Albert Kingsbury
|
Engineer |
Kingsbury thrust bearing |
23-Dec-1863 |
28-Jul-1943 |
DEAD
|
| Chris Kraft
|
Engineer |
Long-time voice of NASA's Mission Control |
28-Feb-1924 |
TBD |
|
Glenn L. Martin
|
Engineer |
Martin Aircraft Co. |
17-Jan-1886 |
05-Dec-1955 |
DEAD
|
Wilhelm Maybach
|
Engineer |
Designed the Mercedes |
09-Feb-1846 |
29-Dec-1929 |
DEAD
|
| Carver A. Mead
|
Engineer |
Microelectronics |
01-May-1934 |
TBD |
|
| William D. Mensch
|
Engineer |
Co-Designer, 6502 microprocessor |
09-Feb-1945 |
TBD |
|
Willy Messerschmitt
|
Engineer |
Designer of Nazi fighter planes |
26-Jun-1898 |
17-Sep-1978 |
DEAD
|
Raymond D. Mindlin
|
Engineer |
Mindlin's problem |
17-Sep-1906 |
22-Nov-1987 |
DEAD
|
Jay Miner
|
Engineer |
Father of the Amiga Computer |
31-May-1932 |
20-Jun-1994 |
DEAD
|
Samuel S. Montague
|
Engineer |
American Transcontinental Railroad |
06-Jul-1830 |
24-Sep-1883 |
DEAD
|
William Mulholland
|
Engineer |
Los Angeles Aqueduct |
11-Sep-1855 |
22-Jul-1935 |
DEAD
|
Burt Munro
|
Engineer |
Subject of biopic The World's Fastest Indian |
25-Mar-1899 |
06-Jan-1978 |
DEAD
|
Nikolaus Otto
|
Engineer |
Four-stroke internal-combustion engine |
14-Jun-1832 |
26-Jan-1891 |
DEAD
|
| Bradford W. Parkinson
|
Engineer |
Global Positioning System |
16-Feb-1935 |
TBD |
|
Thomas H. Pigford
|
Engineer |
Nuclear chemical engineer |
21-Apr-1922 |
27-Feb-2010 |
DEAD
|
Ferdinand Porsche
|
Engineer |
Designer of the Volkswagen Beetle |
03-Sep-1875 |
30-Jan-1951 |
DEAD
|
Ferry Porsche
|
Engineer |
Designed the Porsche 356 |
19-Sep-1909 |
27-Mar-1998 |
DEAD
|
Louis Renault
|
Engineer |
Founder of Renault |
15-Feb-1877 |
24-Oct-1944 |
DEAD
|
John Roebling
|
Engineer |
Began construction of Brooklyn Bridge |
12-Jun-1806 |
22-Jul-1869 |
DEAD
|
Henry Royce
|
Engineer |
Designed the first Rolls-Royce |
27-Mar-1863 |
22-Apr-1933 |
DEAD
|
William R. Sears
|
Engineer |
Airfoil engineer |
01-Mar-1913 |
12-Oct-2002 |
DEAD
|
Isaac Shoenberg
|
Engineer |
405-line format television |
01-Mar-1880 |
25-Jan-1963 |
DEAD
|
Philip Sporn
|
Engineer |
American Electric Power Company |
25-Nov-1896 |
23-Jan-1978 |
DEAD
|
George Stephenson
|
Engineer |
Early railroad builder |
09-Jun-1781 |
12-Aug-1848 |
DEAD
|
Robert Stephenson
|
Engineer |
Builder of railroad bridges |
16-Oct-1803 |
12-Oct-1859 |
DEAD
|
John Frank Stevens
|
Engineer |
Chief engineer of the Panama Canal |
25-Apr-1853 |
02-Jun-1943 |
DEAD
|
Robert Stevenson
|
Engineer |
Scottish lighthouse designer |
08-Jun-1772 |
12-Jul-1850 |
DEAD
|
| Bert Sutherland
|
Engineer |
Scientist at Sun Microsystems |
1936 |
TBD |
|
| Ivan Sutherland
|
Engineer |
Father of computer graphics |
16-May-1938 |
TBD |
|
Thomas Telford
|
Engineer |
Scottish canal, bridge, and road builder |
09-Aug-1757 |
02-Sep-1834 |
DEAD
|
Stephen Timoshenko
|
Engineer |
Mechanical engineering professor at Stanford |
23-Dec-1878 |
29-May-1972 |
DEAD
|
Sébastien de Vauban
|
Engineer |
Mastermind of the siege |
15-May-1633 |
30-Mar-1707 |
DEAD
|
Fausto Veranzio
|
Engineer |
Tested Da Vinci's parachute |
1551 |
27-Jan-1617 |
DEAD
|
Thomas A. Watson
|
Engineer |
Assistant to Alexander Graham Bell |
18-Jan-1854 |
13-Dec-1934 |
DEAD
|
| Robert Zubrin
|
Engineer |
Mars Direct |
1952 |
TBD |
|
Konrad Zuse
|
Engineer |
Built first Turing-complete computer |
22-Jun-1910 |
18-Dec-1995 |
DEAD
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