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x Frank Newby        
Frank Newby (26 March 1926 – 10 May 2001) was one of the leading structural engineers of the 20th Century, working with such architects as Philip Powell and Hidalgo Moya, Eero Saarinen, Cedric Price, James Stirling, and the practice of Skidmore,...
x Alexander Binnie Binnie's Vauxhall Bridge      
Sir Alexander Richardson Binnie (1839-1917) was a civil engineer responsible for several major engineering projects, including several associated with crossings of the River Thames in London. As chief engineer for the London City Council, his design...
x Maurice Fitzmaurice Expression error: Unexpected < operatorpx      
Sir Maurice Fitzmaurice CMG (11 May 1861–17 November 1924) was an Irish civil engineer. He was apprenticed to Benjamin Baker and worked with him on the Forth Railway Bridge before going to Egypt to build the Aswan Dam for which he was appointed both...
x Isambard Kingdom Brunel IKBrunelChains      
Isambard Kingdom Brunel, FRS (9 April 1806 – 15 September 1859) (pronounced /ˈɪzəmbɑrd ˈkɪŋdəm bruːˈnɛl/), was a British engineer. He is best known for the creation of the Great Western Railway, a series of famous steamships, including the first...
x Michael Faraday Michael Faraday from a photograph by John Watkins, British Library      
Michael Faraday, FRS (22 September 1791 – 25 August 1867) was an English chemist and physicist (or natural philosopher, in the terminology of the time) who contributed to the fields of electromagnetism and electrochemistry. Faraday studied the...
x Anthony Hunt          
x Louis Gustave Mouchel          
x Robert Stephenson Statue of Robert Stephenson at Euston Station, London      
Robert Stephenson FRS (16 October 1803 – 12 October 1859) was an English civil engineer. He was the only son of George Stephenson, the famed locomotive builder and railway engineer; many of the achievements popularly credited to his father were...
x Thomas Telford ThomasTelford Institution of Civil Engineers    
Thomas Telford (9 August 1757 - 2 September 1834) was born in Glendinning, Scotland, UK. He was a stonemason, architect and civil engineer and a noted road, bridge and canal builder. Telford's father, a shepherd, died soon after Thomas was born....
x Owen Williams        
Sir Evan Owen Williams (20 March 1890 – 23 May 1969) was born in Tottenham, London, England, son of Owen Tudor Williams and Mary Roberts, and died in hospital in Hemel Hempstead. He studied engineering at the University of London, after which he was...
x John Burland          
x Henry J. Kaiser      
Henry John Kaiser (May 9, 1882—August 24, 1967) was an American industrialist who became known as the father of modern American shipbuilding. He established the Kaiser Shipyard which built Liberty ships during World War II, after which he formed...
x Frank Crowe Frank T. Crowe      
Francis Trenholm Crowe (1882–1946) was the chief engineer of the Hoover Dam. During that time, he was the superintendent of Six Companies, the construction company that oversaw the construction project. Born in Trenholmville, Quebec, Crowe graduated...
x George Leather          
x Benjamin Outram Wagonway      
Benjamin Outram (1 April 1764 – 22 May 1805) was an English civil engineer, surveyor and industrialist. Born at Alfreton in Derbyshire, he began his career assisting his father Joseph Outram, who described himself as an "agriculturalist", but was...
x William Jessop        
William Jessop (23 January 1745 – 18 November 1814) was a noted English civil engineer, particularly famed for his work on canals, harbours and early railways in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. Jessop was born in Devonport, Devon in 1745,...
x Edmund Cooper          
x Joseph Bazalgette Memorial to Sir Joseph Bazalgette on Victoria Embankment      
Sir Joseph William Bazalgette (28 March 1819 – 15 March 1891) was one of the great English civil engineers of the 19th century. As the chief engineer of London's Metropolitan Board of Works, his major achievement was the creation of a sewer network...
x Frederick Palmer Isle of dogs 1899 Institution of Civil Engineers    
Frederick Palmer (1860–19??) was a British civil engineer. Palmer was born in Carmarthenshire, Wales in 1860. Palmer undertook several projects at the West India Docks. The first was the construction of several sheds at the Import Dock between 1912...
x David Atholl Hislop          
x Robert Alfred Carr   Institution of Civil Engineers      
x Robert Carr   Institution of Civil Engineers      
x Harry Oswald Carr   Institution of Civil Engineers      
x Francis Webb LNWR No1881      
Francis William Webb (21 May 1836–4 June 1906) was a British engineer responsible for the design and manufacture of locomotives for the London and North Western Railway (LNWR). Webb was born in Tixall Rectory, near Stafford, Staffordshire, the...
x James Watt James Watt      
James Watt (19 January 1736 – 25 August 1819) was a Scottish inventor and mechanical engineer whose improvements to the steam engine were fundamental to the changes brought by the Industrial Revolution in both the Kingdom of Great Britain and the...
x William Dickson Dickson greeting      
William Kennedy Laurie Dickson (3 August 1860 – 28 September 1935) was an Anglo-Scottish inventor who devised an early motion picture camera under the employ of Thomas Edison (post-dating the work of Louis Le Prince). Dickson was born on 3 August...
x Robert Watson-Watt Sir Robert Alexander Watson-Watt, ca. 1944      
Sir Robert Alexander Watson-Watt, Order of the Bath, LLD, DSc, FRS, FRAeS (13 April 1892 – 5 December 1973) is considered by many to be the "inventor of radar". Radar development was first started elsewhere (see History of radar), but Watson-Watt...
x John Logie Baird Bust of John Logie Baird in Helensburgh.      
John Logie Baird (August 13, 1888 – June 14, 1946) was a Scottish engineer and inventor of the world's first working television system, also the world's first ever colour broadcast. Although Baird's electromechanical system was eventually displaced...
x William Murdoch William Murdoch      
William Murdoch (sometimes spelled Murdock) (21 August 1754 - 15 November 1839) was a Scottish engineer and inventor. It is believed he Anglicised his name to Murdock when he moved to England. Murdoch was employed by the firm of Boulton and Watt and...
x James Nasmyth James Nasmyth      
James Hall Nasmyth (sometimes spelled Naesmyth, Nasmith, or Nesmyth) (August 19, 1808 – May 7, 1890) was a Scottish engineer and inventor famous for his development of the steam hammer. His father Alexander Nasmyth was a landscape and portrait...
x John Reith, 1st Baron Reith 6 Barton St,S.W.1 Reith's home 1924-30      
John Charles Walsham Reith, 1st Baron Reith, KT, GCVO, GBE, CB, TD, PC (20 July 1889 – 16 June 1971) was a Scottish broadcasting executive who established the tradition of independent public service broadcasting in the United Kingdom. In 1922 he was...
x John Muir John Muir Cane      
John Muir (21 April 1838 – 24 December 1914) was a Scottish-born American naturalist, author, and early advocate of preservation of U.S. wilderness. His letters, essays, and books telling of his adventures in nature, especially in the Sierra Nevada...
x James Harrison James harrison      
James Harrison (April 1816 - 3 September 1893) was a Scottish newspaper printer, journalist, politician and pioneer in the field of mechanical refrigeration. Harrison was born at Bonhill(near Renton), Dunbartonshire, Scotland, the son of a fisherman...
x William Symington William Symington      
William Symington (1764–1831) was a Scottish engineer and inventor, and the builder of the first practical steamboat. Symington was born in Leadhills, South Lanarkshire, Scotland to a family he described as being "respectable but not wealthy." His...
x James Alfred Ewing      
Sir James Alfred Ewing KCB (27 March 1855 - 7 January 1935) was a Scottish physicist and engineer, best known for his work on the magnetic properties of metals and, in particular, for his discovery of, and coinage of the word, hysteresis. (Note:...
x Colin Mackenzie Colin Mackenzie      
Colonel Colin Mackenzie (1754 – 1821) was Surveyor General of India, and an art collector and orientalist. Mackenzie was born in Stornoway, Outer Hebrides, Scotland. He produced many of the first accurate maps of India, and his research and...
x Alexander Bain        
Alexander Bain (October 1811 – January 2, 1877), was a Scottish instrument inventor, technician, and clockmaker. He invented the electric clock, the electric printing telegraph, and the first facsimile machine (fax machine). Bain installed the...
x Robert Stirling Newall Robert Stirling Newall      
Robert Stirling Newall (1812 – 1889) was a Scottish engineer and astronomer. Born in Dundee, he patented a new type of wire rope in 1840 and established a factory in Gateshead, England for its manufacture in partnership with Messrs. Liddell and...
x Henry Bell        
Henry Bell (b. April 7, 1767 - d. March 14, 1830) was a Scottish engineer who is famed for introducing the first successful passenger steamboat service in Europe. Bell was born at Torphichen, Linlithgowshire and pioneered the development of the...
x William Arrol TayRailBridgeCloseup      
Sir William Arrol (1839–1913) was a Scottish civil engineer, bridge builder, and Liberal Party politician. The son of a spinner, he was born in Houston, Renfrewshire, and started work in a cotton mill at only 9 years of age. He started training as a...
x John Loudon McAdam Expression error: Unexpected < operatorpx      
John Loudon McAdam (September 21, 1756 – November 26, 1836) was a Scottish engineer and road-builder. He invented a new process, "macadamisation", for building roads with a smooth hard surface that would be more durable and less muddy than soil...
x James Clerk Maxwell James Clerk Maxwell (1831–1879)      
James Clerk Maxwell (13 June 1831 – 5 November 1879) was a Scottish theoretical physicist and mathematician. His most significant achievement was the development of the classical electromagnetic theory, synthesizing all previous unrelated...
x Sir Robert McAlpine, 1st Baronet        
Sir Robert McAlpine, 1st Baronet (13 February 1847 in Forth, Lanarkshire - 3 November 1934), known as "Concrete Bob", founded the British construction firm now known as Sir Robert McAlpine Ltd. McAlpine was born in Newarthill, North Lanarkshire,...
x John C. Walton Jack C. Walton      
John Calloway “Jack” Walton (March 6, 1881 – November 25, 1949) was an American politician and the fifth Governor of Oklahoma. Walton would serve the shortest term of any Governor of Oklahoma, being the first Governor in the state’s history to be...
x Gustave Eiffel Gustave Eiffel      
Alexandre Gustave Eiffel (December 15, 1832 – December 27, 1923; French pronunciation: [efɛl], English: /ˈaɪfəl/), was a French structural engineer and entrepreneur and a specialist of metallic structures. He is famous for designing the Eiffel Tower...
x George Stephenson George Stephenson      
George Stephenson (9 June 1781 – 12 August 1848) was an English civil engineer and mechanical engineer who built the first public railway line in the world to use steam locomotives and is known as the "Father of Railways". The Victorians considered...
x Konrad Zuse Konrad Zuse in 1992      
Konrad Zuse (German pronunciation: [ˈkɔnʁat ˈtsuːzə]; June 22, 1910 Berlin - December 18, 1995 Hünfeld) was a German civil engineer and computer pioneer. His greatest achievement was the world's first functional program-controlled Turing-complete...
x Leonardo da Vinci Leonardo self      
    Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci, April 15, 1452 – May 2, 1519) was an Italian polymath, being a scientist, mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, painter, sculptor, architect, botanist, musician and writer. Leonardo...
x Osama bin Laden DN-SD-04-12769      
Osama bin Laden (Arabic: أسامة بن محمد بن عوض بن لادن‎ Usāmah bin Muḥammad bin `Awaḍ bin Lādin; with numerous variations) (born 10 March 1957) is a member of the prominent Saudi bin Laden family and the founder of the terrorist organization al-Qaeda...
x Othmar Ammann Othmarbust      
Othmar Hermann Ammann (March 26, 1879 – September 22, 1965) was a Swiss-born American structural engineer whose designs include the George Washington Bridge, Verrazano-Narrows Bridge, and Bayonne Bridge. A residential building is named after him on...
x Fulgence Bienvenüe Bienvenue      
Fulgence Bienvenüe (27 January 1852–3 August 1936) was a French civil engineer, best known for his role in the construction of the Paris Métro. A native of Uzel in Brittany, he graduated as a civil engineer in 1872. His first assignment was the...
x Abida Dr. Joseph P. Colaco in a conference      
Dr. Joseph Philip Colaco, USA, is a well known American structural engineer and author. Dr. Colaco, known as Joe, is noted for his contributions to the supertall skyscrapers in the United States and in Middle East. He received his PhD. in civil...
x Simon Stevin Simon Stevin      
Simon Stevin (1548/49 – 1620) was a Flemish mathematician and engineer. He was active in a great many areas of science and engineering, both theoretical and practical. He also translated various mathematical terms into Dutch, making it one of the...
x Marc Isambard Brunel Marc isambard brunel      
Sir Marc Isambard Brunel, FRS (25 April 1769 – 12 December 1849) was a French-born engineer who settled in the United Kingdom. He preferred the name Isambard, but is generally known to history as Marc to avoid confusion with his more famous son...
x William Barclay Parsons William Barclay Parsons      
William Barclay Parsons (April 15, 1859 - May 9, 1932) was an American civil engineer. He founded the firm that became Parsons Brinckerhoff, one of the largest American civil engineering firms. Parsons received a bachelor's degree from Columbia...
x Benjamin Baker BBaker      
Sir Benjamin Baker, KCB, KCMG, FRS (31 March 1840 - 19 May 1907) was an eminent British civil engineer who worked in mid to late Victorian era. He helped develop the early underground railways in London with Sir John Fowler, but he is best known for...
x Thomas Bouch Thomas Bouch ILN      
Sir Thomas Bouch (pronounced /ˈbaʊtʃ/) (25 February 1822 - 30 October 1880) was a railway engineer in Victorian Britain. He was born in Thursby, Cumberland, England and lived in Edinburgh. He helped develop the caisson and the roll-on/roll-off train...
x David Stevenson        
David Stevenson (1815–1886) was a lighthouse designer, who designed over thirty lighthouses in and around Scotland, and helped found a great dynasty of lighthouse engineering. The son of engineer Robert Stevenson, and brother of the lighthouse...
x John Rennie Portrait of John Rennie, 1810, by Sir Henry Raeburn      
John Rennie (7 June 1761 - 4 October 1821) was a Scottish civil engineer who designed many bridges, canals, and docks. Rennie, a farmer's younger son, was born at Phantassie, near East Linton, East Lothian, Scotland, and showed a taste for mechanics...
x John Smeaton John Smeaton      
John Smeaton, FRS, (June 8, 1724 – October 28, 1792) was a civil engineer – often regarded as the "father of civil engineering" – responsible for the design of bridges, canals, harbours and lighthouses. He was also a more than capable mechanical...