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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,...
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x Jaime Ohm  
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x Rick Gregory     Person  
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x Isambard Kingdom Brunel IKBrunelChains
Isambard Kingdom Brunel, FRS (/ˈɪzəmbɑrd bruːˈnɛl/; 9 April 1806 – 15 September 1859), was an English civil engineer who built bridges and dockyards including the construction of the first major British railway, the Great Western Railway; a series...
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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 County Council, his...
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x Maurice Fitzmaurice  
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...
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x Michael Faraday Michael Faraday from a photograph by John Watkins, British Library
Michael Faraday, FRS (22 September 1791 – 25 August 1867) was a British scientist, chemist, physicist and philosopher who greatly contributed to the fields of electromagnetism and electrochemistry. His main discoveries include that of the Magnetic...
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x Anthony Hunt     Award Winner  
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x Louis Gustave Mouchel     Engineering Person  
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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...
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x Thomas Telford ThomasTelford
Thomas Telford FRS, FRSE (1757–1834) was a Scottish civil engineer, architect and stonemason, and a noted road, bridge and canal builder. Telford was born on 9 August 1757 at Glendinning, a hill farm 3 miles west of Eskdalemuir Kirk, in the rural...
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x Owen Williams  
Sir Evan Owen Williams (20 March 1890 – 23 May 1969) was born in Tottenham, London, England, son of Evan Owen Williams and Mary Roberts, and died in hospital in Hemel Hempstead. He studied engineering at the University of London, after which he was...
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x John Burland     Award Winner  
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x Henry J. Kaiser 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...
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x Frank Crowe Frank Crowe
Francis Trenholm Crowe (October 12, 1882(1882-10-12) – February 26, 1946(1946-02-26)) 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...
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x Benjamin Outram Wagonway
Benjamin Outram (1 April 1764 – 22 May 1805) was an English civil engineer, surveyor and industrialist. He was a pioneer in the building of canals and tramways. Born at Alfreton in Derbyshire, he began his career assisting his father Joseph Outram,...
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x George Leather     Engineering Person  
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x John Hadley John Hadley
John Hadley (16 April 1682 – 14 February 1744) was an English mathematician, inventor of the octant, a precursor to the sextant, around 1730. He was born in Bloomsbury, London, to Katherine FitzJames and George Hadley. In 1717 he became a member ...
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x William Jessop Grand Canal Dublin 2006 Kaihsu Tai
William Jessop (23 January 1745 – 18 November 1814) was an English civil engineer, best known for his work on canals, harbours and early railways in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. Jessop was born in Devonport, Devon, the son of Josias...
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x Thomas Brown  
Thomas Brown (1772 – 30 January 1850) was an English surveyor, civil engineer, businessman and landowner. Born at Disley in Cheshire, he had interests in coal-mining, particularly in the Haughton and Hyde areas of Greater Manchester, as well as lime...
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x John Rennie Portrait of John Rennie, 1810, by Sir Henry Raeburn
John Rennie FRSE FRS (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...
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x Edward Leader Williams  
Sir Edward Leader Williams (28 April 1828 – 1 January 1910) was an English civil engineer, chiefly remembered as the designer of the Manchester Ship Canal, but also heavily involved in other canal projects in north Cheshire. Williams was born in...
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x Edmund Cooper     Engineering Person  
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x Joseph Bazalgette Memorial to Sir Joseph Bazalgette on Victoria Embankment
Sir Joseph William Bazalgette, CB (28 March 1819 – 15 March 1891) was an English civil engineer of the 19th century. As chief engineer of London's Metropolitan Board of Works his major achievement was the creation (in response to the "Great Stink"...
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x Frederick Palmer Isle of dogs 1899
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...
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x David Atholl Hislop     Name source  
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x Robert Alfred Carr     Name source  
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x Robert Carr     Person  
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x Harry Oswald Carr     Person  
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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...
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x James Watt James Watt
James Watt, FRS, FRSE (19 January 1736 – 25 August 1819) was a Scottish inventor and mechanical engineer whose improvements to the Newcomen steam engine were fundamental to the changes brought by the Industrial Revolution in both his native Great...
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x William Dickson Dickson greeting
William Kennedy Laurie Dickson (3 August 1860 – 28 September 1935) was a French-born Scot inventor who devised an early motion picture camera under the employment of Thomas Edison (post-dating the work of Louis Le Prince). Dickson was born on 3...
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x Robert Watson-Watt Sir Robert Alexander Watson-Watt, ca. 1944
Sir Robert Alexander Watson-Watt, KCB, FRS, FRAeS (13 April 1892 – 5 December 1973) is considered by many to be the "inventor of radar". (The hyphenated name is used herein for consistency, although this was not adopted until he was knighted in 1942...
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x John Logie Baird Bust of John Logie Baird in Helensburgh.
John Logie Baird FRSE (13 August 1888 – 14 June 1946) was a Scottish engineer and inventor of the world's first practical, publicly demonstrated television system, and also the world's first fully electronic colour television tube. Although Baird's...
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x William Murdoch William Murdoch
William Murdoch (sometimes spelled Murdock) (21 August 1754 – 15 November 1839) was a Scottish engineer and long-term inventor. Murdoch was employed by the firm of Boulton and Watt and worked for them in Cornwall, as a steam engine erector for ten...
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x James Nasmyth James Nasmyth
James Hall Nasmyth (sometimes spelled Naesmyth, Nasmith, or Nesmyth) (19 August 1808 –7 May 1890) was a Scottish engineer and inventor famous for his development of the steam hammer. He was the co-founder of Nasmyth, Gaskell and Company...
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x John Reith, 1st Baron Reith P1081LrdRth
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...
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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 wilderness in the United States. His letters, essays, and books telling of his adventures in nature, especially in...
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x James Harrison James harrison
James Harrison (April 1816 - 3 September 1893) was an Australian newspaper printer, journalist, politician, and pioneer in the field of mechanical refrigeration. James Harrison was born at St Johns (near Renton), Dunbartonshire, Scotland, the son of...
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x William Symington William Symington
William Symington (1764–1831) was a Scottish engineer and inventor, and the builder of the first practical steamboat, the Charlotte Dundas. Symington was born in Leadhills, South Lanarkshire, Scotland to a family he described as being "respectable...
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x James Alfred Ewing James Alfred Ewing
Sir James Alfred Ewing KCB FRS FRSE MInstitCE (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,...
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x Colin Mackenzie Colinmackenzie
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...
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x Alexander Bain Alexander Bain
Alexander Bain (October 1811 – 2 January 1877) was a Scottish inventor and engineer who was first to invent and patent the electric clock. Bain installed the railway telegraph lines between Edinburgh and Glasgow. Bain was born in Watten, Caithness,...
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x Robert Stirling Newall Robert Stirling Newall
Robert Stirling Newall FRS (27 May 1812 – 21 April 1889) was a Scottish engineer and astronomer. Born in Dundee, he was befriended by civil engineer L.D.B. Gordon. In 1838, whilst studying at the Freiburg School of Mines, Germany, Gordon visited the...
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x Henry Bell  
Henry Bell (7 April, 1767 – 14 March, 1830) was a Scottish engineer who is famed for introducing the first successful passenger steamboat service in Europe. Bell was born at Torphichen, near Bathgate, West Lothian in 1767 and pioneered the...
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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...
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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...
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x James Clerk Maxwell James Clerk Maxwell
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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,...
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x John C. Walton Jack 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...
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x Gustave Eiffel Gustave Eiffel
Alexandre Gustave Eiffel ( /ˈaɪfəl/ French pronunciation: [efɛl]) (December 15, 1832 – December 27, 1923) was a French civil engineer and architect. A graduate of the École Centrale des Arts et Manufactures, he made his name with various bridges for...
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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. Renowned as being the "Father of Railways", the Victorians...
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x Konrad Zuse Konrad Zuse in 1992
Konrad Zuse (German pronunciation: [ˈkɔnʁat ˈtsuːzə]; 1910–1995) was a German civil engineer and computer pioneer. His greatest achievement was the world's first functional program-controlled Turing-complete computer, the Z3, which became...
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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 has often been...
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x Osama bin Laden DN-SD-04-12769
Osama bin Mohammed bin Awad bin Laden ( /oʊˈsɑːmə bɪn moʊˈhɑːmɨd bɪn əˈwɑːd bɪn ˈlɑːdən/; Arabic: أسامة بن محمد بن عوض بن لادن‎, ʾUsāmah bin Muḥammad bin ʿAwaḍ bin Lādin; March 10, 1957 – May 2, 2011), was the founder of Al-Qaeda, the jihadist...
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x Othmar Ammann Othmarbust
Othmar Hermann Ammann (March 26, 1879 – September 22, 1965) was a American structural engineer whose designs include the George Washington Bridge, Verrazano-Narrows Bridge, and Bayonne Bridge. Othmar Ammann was born in Schaffhausen, Switzerland in...
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x Fulgence Bienvenüe Bienvenue
Fulgence Bienvenüe (27 January 1852 – 3 August 1936) was a noted French civil engineer. He is best known for his role in the construction of the Paris Métro, and had been called "Le Pere du Metro" (Father of the Metro). A native of Uzel in Brittany...
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x Abida Dr. Joseph P. Colaco in a conference
Dr. Joseph Philip Colaco, USA, is a well known Indian 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...
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x Simon Stevin Simon Stevin
Simon Stevin (1548/49 – 1620) was a Flemish mathematician and military 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...
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x Marc Isambard Brunel Marc isambard brunel
Sir Marc Isambard Brunel, FRS FRSE (25 April 1769 – 12 December 1849) was a French-born engineer who settled in England. He preferred the name Isambard, but is generally known to history as Marc to avoid confusion with his more famous son Isambard...
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