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Engineers are concerned with developing economical and safe solutions to practical problems, by applying mathematics and scientific knowledge while considering technical constraints. The term is derived from the Latin root "ingenium," meaning "cleverness". The industrial revolution and continuing...
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Alfred Korzybski
Alfred Habdank Skarbek Korzybski ([kɔˈʐɨpski]) (July 3, 1879 – March 1, 1950) was a Polish-American philosopher and scientist. He is most remembered for developing the theory of general semantics.
He was born in Warsaw, Russian Empire. He came from...
Date of birth:
- Jul 3, 1879
Date of death:
- Mar 1, 1950 (age 70 years)
Alfred Nobel
Alfred Bernhard Nobel (help·info) (Stockholm, Sweden, 21 October 1833 – Sanremo, Italy, 10 December 1896) was a Swedish chemist, engineer, innovator, armaments manufacturer and the inventor of dynamite. He owned Bofors, a major armaments...
Date of birth:
- Oct 21, 1833
Date of death:
- Dec 10, 1896 (age 63 years)
Ada Lovelace
Augusta Ada King, Countess of Lovelace (10 December 1815, London – 27 November 1852, Marylebone, London), born Augusta Ada Byron, was the only legitimate child of poet Lord Byron. She is widely known in modern times simply as Ada Lovelace.
She is...
Date of birth:
- Dec 10, 1815
Date of death:
- Nov 27, 1852 (age 36 years)
Alexander Mackenzie
Alexander Mackenzie, PC (January 28, 1822 – April 17, 1892), a building contractor and newspaper editor, was the second Prime Minister of Canada from November 7, 1873 to October 9, 1878.
He was born in Logierait, Perthshire, Scotland to Alexander...
Date of birth:
- Jan 28, 1822
Date of death:
- Apr 17, 1892 (age 70 years)
Ibn al-Haitham
Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥasan ibn al-Ḥasan ibn al-Haytham (Arabic: ابو علي، الحسن بن الحسن بن الهيثم, Persian: ابن هیثم, Latinized: Alhacen or (deprecated) Alhazen) (965 in Basra - c. 1039 in Cairo) was a scientist and polymath from Basra, Iraq. He made...
Date of birth:
- 965 C.E.
Date of death:
- 1040 (age 75 years)
Archimedes
Archimedes of Syracuse (Greek: Ἀρχιμήδης; c. 287 BC – c. 212 BC) was a Greek mathematician, physicist, engineer, inventor, and astronomer. Although few details of his life are known, he is regarded as one of the leading scientists in classical...
Date of birth:
- 287 B.C.E.
Date of death:
- 212 B.C.E. (age 75 years)
August Horch
August Horch (12 October 1868 – 3 February 1951) was a German engineer and automobile pioneer, the founder of the manufacturing giant which would eventually become Audi.
Horch was born in Winningen, Moselle and was educated in Mittweida. August...
Date of birth:
- Oct 12, 1868
Date of death:
- Feb 3, 1951 (age 82 years)
Agner Krarup Erlang
Agner Krarup Erlang (January 1, 1878 – February 3, 1929) was a Danish mathematician, statistician and engineer, who invented the fields of traffic engineering and queueing theory.
Erlang was born at Lonborg (Lønborg), near Tarm, in Jutland. He was...
Date of birth:
- Jan 1, 1878
Date of death:
- Feb 3, 1929 (age 51 years)
Andrew S. Tanenbaum
Andrew Stuart "Andy" Tanenbaum (sometimes referred to by the handle ast) (born March 16, 1944) is a professor of computer science at the Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam in the Netherlands. He is best known as the author of MINIX, a free Unix-like...
Date of birth:
- Mar 16, 1944 (age 65 years)
Bjarne Stroustrup
Bjarne Stroustrup (Danish pronunciation: [ˈbjɑːnə ˈsdʁʌʊ̯ˀsdʁɔb]; born December 30, 1950 in Århus, Denmark) is a computer scientist most notable for developing the C++ programming language. He is currently Professor and holder of the College of...
Date of birth:
- Dec 30, 1950 (age 58 years)
Bill Joy
Bill Joy, longtime KP Limited Partner, joined KPCB as Partner in January 2005.At
KP he helps entrepreneurs advance the Internet, develop wireless
innovations, and find new ways of using large scale computing to solve
the most difficult problems. He...
Date of birth:
- Nov 8, 1954 (age 55 years)
Claude Elwood Shannon
Claude Elwood Shannon (April 30, 1916 – February 24, 2001), an American electronic engineer and mathematician, is known as "the father of information theory".
Shannon is famous for having founded information theory with one landmark paper published...
Date of birth:
- Apr 30, 1916
Date of death:
- Feb 24, 2001 (age 84 years)
Charles Babbage
Charles Babbage, FRS (26 December 1791 – 18 October 1871) was an English mathematician, philosopher, inventor and mechanical engineer who originated the concept of a programmable computer. Parts of his uncompleted mechanisms are on display in the...
Date of birth:
- Dec 26, 1791
Date of death:
- Oct 18, 1871 (age 79 years)
Charles Proteus Steinmetz
Charles Proteus Steinmetz (April 9, 1865 – October 26, 1923) was a German-American mathematician and electrical engineer. He fostered the development of alternating current that made possible the expansion of the electric power industry in the...
Date of birth:
- Apr 9, 1865
Date of death:
- Oct 26, 1923 (age 58 years)
Clarence Johnson
Clarence Leonard "Kelly" Johnson (February 27, 1910 – December 21, 1990) was an aircraft engineer and aeronautical innovator. As a member and first team leader of the Lockheed Skunk Works, Johnson worked for more than four decades and is said to...
Date of birth:
- Feb 27, 1910
Date of death:
- Dec 21, 1990 (age 80 years)
Douglas Engelbart
Dr. Douglas C. Engelbart (born January 30, 1925) is an American inventor and early computer pioneer. He is best known for inventing the computer mouse, as a pioneer of human-computer interaction whose team developed hypertext, networked computers,...
Date of birth:
- Jan 30, 1925 (age 84 years)
Dan Bricklin
Daniel S. Bricklin (born 16 July 1951) is the American co-creator, with Bob Frankston, of the VisiCalc spreadsheet program. He also founded Software Garden, Inc., of which he is currently president, and Trellix Corporation, which is currently owned...
Date of birth:
- Jul 16, 1951 (age 58 years)
Eli Whitney
Eli Whitney (December 8, 1765 – January 8, 1825) was an American inventor best known as the inventor of the cotton gin. This was one of the key inventions of the industrial revolution and shaped the economy of the antebellum South. Whitney's...
Date of birth:
- Dec 8, 1765
Date of death:
- Jan 8, 1825 (age 59 years)
Émile Baudot
Jean-Maurice-Émile Baudot (September 11, 1845 – March 28, 1903), French telegraph engineer and inventor of the first means of digital communication Baudot code, was one of the pioneers of telecommunications. He invented a multiplexed printing...
Date of birth:
- Sep 11, 1845
Date of death:
- Mar 28, 1903 (age 57 years)
Edwin Armstrong
Edwin Howard Armstrong (December 18, 1890 – January 31, 1954) was an American electrical engineer and inventor. Armstrong was the inventor of frequency modulation (FM) radio, regeneration, and the superheterodyne.
Edwin Howard Armstrong was born in...
Date of birth:
- Dec 18, 1890
Date of death:
- Jan 31, 1954 (age 63 years)
Felix Wankel
Felix Heinrich Wankel (August 13, 1902 – October 9, 1988) was a German mechanical engineer.
Wankel was born in Lahr, Germany, in the upper Rhine Valley. Since his mother was widowed in World War I, Wankel received no university education or even an...
Date of birth:
- Aug 13, 1902
Date of death:
- Oct 9, 1988 (age 86 years)
Francis Drake
Sir Francis Drake, Vice Admiral (1540 – 27 January 1596), was an English sea captain, privateer, navigator, slaver, a renowned pirate, and politician of the Elizabethan era. Queen Elizabeth I awarded Drake a knighthood in 1581. He was second-in...
Date of birth:
- 1540
Date of death:
- Jan 27, 1596 (age 56 years)
Guglielmo Marconi
Marchese Guglielmo Marconi (Italian pronunciation: [ɡuʎˈʎɛːlmo marˈkoːni]; 25 April 1874 – 20 July 1937) was an Italian inventor, best known for his development of a radiotelegraph system, which served as the foundation for the establishment of...
Date of birth:
- Apr 25, 1874
Date of death:
- Jul 20, 1937 (age 63 years)
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...
Date of birth:
- Dec 15, 1832
Date of death:
- Dec 27, 1923 (age 91 years)
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 he is renowned as being the "Father of Railways". The...
Date of birth:
- Jun 9, 1781
Date of death:
- Aug 12, 1848 (age 67 years)
Gaspard-Gustave Coriolis
Gaspard-Gustave de Coriolis or Gustave Coriolis (21 May 1792 – 19 September 1843) was a French mathematician, mechanical engineer and scientist. He is best known for his work on the supplementary forces that are detected in a rotating frame of...
Date of birth:
- May 21, 1792
Date of death:
- Sep 19, 1843 (age 51 years)
Herbert Hoover
Herbert Clark Hoover (August 10, 1874 – October 20, 1964) was the 31st President of the United States (1929–1933). Hoover was a professional mining engineer and author. As the United States Secretary of Commerce in the 1920s under Presidents Warren...
Date of birth:
- Aug 10, 1874
Date of death:
- Oct 20, 1964 (age 90 years)
Howard Hughes
Howard Robard Hughes, Jr. (December 24, 1905 – April 5, 1976) was an American aviator, engineer, industrialist, film producer, film director, philanthropist, and one of the wealthiest people in the world. He gained fame in the late 1920s as a...
Date of birth:
- Dec 24, 1905
Date of death:
- Apr 5, 1976 (age 70 years)
Henry Moseley
Henry Gwyn Jeffreys Moseley (23 November 1887–10 August 1915) was an English physicist. His main contributions to science were the quantitative justification of the previously empirical concept of atomic number, and Moseley's law. This law advanced...
Date of birth:
- Nov 23, 1887
Date of death:
- Aug 10, 1915 (age 27 years)
Imhotep
Imhotep (sometimes spelled Immutef, Im-hotep, or Ii-em-Hotep; called Imuthes (Ιμυθες) by the Greeks), fl. 27th century BC (2650-2600 BC) (Egyptian ii-m-ḥtp *jā-im-ḥatāp meaning "the one who comes in, with peace") was an Egyptian polymath, who served...
John Bardeen
John Bardeen, Ph.D. (May 23, 1908 – January 30, 1991) was an American physicist and electrical engineer, who won the Nobel Prize in Physics twice: first in 1956 with William Shockley and Walter Brattain for the invention of the transistor; and again...
Date of birth:
- May 23, 1908
Date of death:
- Jan 30, 1991 (age 82 years)
James Clerk Maxwell
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...
Date of birth:
- Jun 13, 1831
Date of death:
- Nov 5, 1879 (age 48 years)
James Watt
James Watt FRS (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 the Kingdom of Great...
Date of birth:
- Jan 19, 1736
Date of death:
- Aug 25, 1819 (age 83 years)
John Ambrose Fleming
Sir John Ambrose Fleming (29 November 1849 – 18 April 1945) was an English electrical engineer and physicist. He is known for inventing the first thermionic valve or vacuum tube, the diode, then called the kenotron in 1904. He also invented the...
Date of birth:
- Nov 29, 1849
Date of death:
- Apr 18, 1945 (age 95 years)
K. Eric Drexler
Kim Eric Drexler (born April 25, 1955 in Almeda, California) is an American engineer best known for popularizing the potential of molecular nanotechnology (MNT), from the 1970s and 1980s. His 1991 doctoral thesis at MIT was revised and published as...
Date of birth:
- Apr 25, 1955 (age 54 years)
Konrad Zuse
Konrad Zuse (pronounced [ˈkɔnʁat ˈtsuːzə]; 22 June 1910 Berlin - 18 December 1995 Hünfeld) was a German engineer and computer pioneer. His greatest achievement was the world's first functional program-controlled Turing-complete computer, the Z3, in...
Date of birth:
- Jun 22, 1910
Date of death:
- Dec 18, 1995 (age 85 years)
Karl Benz
Karl Friedrich Benz, sometimes spelled as Carl, (25 November 1844 – 4 April 1929) was a German engine designer and automobile engineer, generally regarded as the inventor of the petrol-powered automobile and pioneering founder of the automobile...
Date of birth:
- Nov 25, 1844
Date of death:
- Apr 4, 1929 (age 84 years)
Konstantin Tsiolkovsky
Konstantin Eduardovich Tsiolkovsky (Russian: Константи́н Эдуа́рдович Циолко́вский; Polish: Konstanty Ciołkowski) (September 17 [O.S. September 5] 1857 – September 19, 1935) was an Imperial Russian and Soviet rocket scientist and pioneer of the...
Date of birth:
- 1857
Date of death:
- Sep 19, 1935 (age 78 years)
Kevin Warwick
Kevin Warwick (born 9 February 1954 Coventry, UK) is a British scientist and professor of cybernetics at the University of Reading, Reading, Berkshire, United Kingdom. He is best known for his studies on direct interfaces between computer systems...
Date of birth:
- Feb 9, 1954 (age 55 years)
Leonardo da Vinci
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...
Date of birth:
- Apr 15, 1452
Date of death:
- May 2, 1519 (age 67 years)
Mikhail Kalashnikov
Lieutenant General Mikhail Timofeyevich Kalashnikov (Russian: Михаи́л Тимофе́евич Кала́шников, Mihail Timofeevič Kalašnikov) (born November 10, 1919 in Russia's southern Altai region) is a famous Russian small arms designer, most famous for...
Date of birth:
- Nov 10, 1919 (age 90 years)
Neil Armstrong
Neil Alden Armstrong (born August 5, 1930) is an American aviator and a former astronaut, test pilot, university professor, and United States Naval Aviator. He was the first person to set foot on the Moon. His first spaceflight was aboard Gemini 8...
Date of birth:
- Aug 5, 1930 (age 79 years)
Nikola Tesla
Nikola Tesla (10 July 1856 – 7 January 1943) was an inventor and a mechanical and electrical engineer. He is frequently cited as one of the most important contributors to the birth of commercial electricity and is best known for his many...
Date of birth:
- Jul 10, 1856
Date of death:
- Jan 7, 1943 (age 86 years)
Niklaus Wirth
Niklaus Emil Wirth (born February 15, 1934) is a Swiss computer scientist, best known for designing several programming languages, including Pascal, and for pioneering several classic topics in software engineering. In 1984 he won the Turing Award...
Date of birth:
- Feb 15, 1934 (age 75 years)
Niccolò Fontana Tartaglia
Niccolò Fontana Tartaglia (1499/1500, Brescia, Italy – December 13, 1557, Venice, Italy) was a mathematician, an engineer (designing fortifications), a surveyor (of topography, seeking the best means of defense or offense) and a bookkeeper from the...
Date of birth:
- 1499
Date of death:
- Dec 13, 1557 (age 58 years)
Osama bin Laden
Osama bin Mohammed bin Awad bin Laden (with numerous variations; Arabic: أسامة بن محمد بن عوض بن لادن, Usāmah bin Muḥammad bin ʾAwaḍ bin Lādin) (born 10 March 1957) is a member of the prominent Saudi bin Laden family and the founding leader of al...
Date of birth:
- Mar 10, 1957 (age 52 years)
Oliver Heaviside
Oliver Heaviside (18 May 1850 – 3 February 1925) was a self-taught English electrical engineer, mathematician, and physicist who adapted complex numbers to the study of electrical circuits, invented mathematical techniques to the solution of...
Date of birth:
- May 18, 1850
Date of death:
- Feb 3, 1925 (age 74 years)
Rube Goldberg
Reuben Lucius Goldberg (July 4, 1883 – December 7, 1970) was an American cartoonist, sculptor, author, engineer and inventor. Goldberg is best known for a series of popular cartoons he created depicting complex devices that perform simple tasks in...
Date of birth:
- Jul 4, 1883
Date of death:
- Dec 7, 1970 (age 87 years)
Rudolf Diesel
Rudolf Christian Karl Diesel (German pronunciation: [ˈʁuːdɔlf ˈkʁɪstjan ˈkaʁl ˈdiːzəl]; March 18, 1858 – last seen alive September 29, 1913) was a European inventor and mechanical engineer, famous for the invention of the diesel engine.
Diesel was...
Date of birth:
- Mar 18, 1858
Date of death:
- Sep 29, 1913 (age 55 years)
Robert Fulton
Robert Fulton (November 14, 1765 – February 24, 1815) was an American engineer and inventor who is widely credited with developing the first commercially successful steamboat. He also designed a new type of steam warship. In 1800 he was commissioned...
Date of birth:
- Nov 14, 1765
Date of death:
- Feb 24, 1815 (age 49 years)
Steve Wozniak
Stephen Gary "Woz" Wozniak (born August 11, 1950 in San Jose, California) is an American computer engineer who founded Apple Computer, Inc. (now Apple Inc.) with Steve Jobs and Ronald Wayne. His inventions and machines are credited with contributing...
Date of birth:
- Aug 11, 1950 (age 59 years)
Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot
Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot (1 June 1796 – 24 August 1832) was a French physicist and military engineer who, in his 1824 Reflections on the Motive Power of Fire, gave the first successful theoretical account of heat engines, now known as the Carnot...
Date of birth:
- Jun 1, 1796
Date of death:
- Aug 24, 1832 (age 36 years)
Sultan Bashiruddin Mahmood
Sultan Bashiruddin Mahmood (or Sultan Bashir-ud-Din Mehmood), (Urdu: سلطان بشیر الدین محمود), born 1938 , is a Pakistani nuclear engineer and Islamic scholar educated in Lahore, Pakistan and the Manchester, United Kingdom. Sultan Bashiruddin Mahmood...
Seymour Cray
Seymour Roger Cray (September 28, 1925 – October 5, 1996) was a U.S. electrical engineer and supercomputer architect who designed a series of computers that were the fastest in the world for decades, and founded the company Cray Research which would...
Date of birth:
- Sep 28, 1925
Date of death:
- Oct 5, 1996 (age 71 years)
Theodore Judah
Theodore Dehone Judah (March 4, 1826–November 2, 1863) was an American railroad engineer who dreamed of the First Transcontinental Railroad and launching it over the Central Pacific Railroad. He performed much of the land survey work to determine...
Date of birth:
- Mar 4, 1826
Date of death:
- Nov 2, 1863 (age 37 years)
Vint Cerf
Vinton G. Cerf is vice president and
Chief Internet Evangelist for Google.
He is responsible for identifying
new...
Date of birth:
- Jun 23, 1943 (age 66 years)
Villard de Honnecourt
Villard de Honnecourt lived in 13th century France and may have been an itinerant master-builder of Picardy in northern France. His fame rests entirely on his surviving portfolio of 33 sheets of parchment (animal skin) containing about 250 drawings...
Vannevar Bush
Vannevar Bush (March 11, 1890 – June 28, 1974; pronounced /væˈniːvɑr/ van-NEE-var) was an American engineer and science administrator known for his work on analog computing, his political role in the development of the atomic bomb as a primary...
Date of birth:
- Mar 11, 1890
Date of death:
- Jun 28, 1974 (age 84 years)
Marcus Vitruvius Pollio
Marcus Vitruvius Pollio (born c. 80–70 BC, died after c. 15 BC) was a Roman writer, architect and engineer (possibly praefectus fabrum during military service or praefect architectus armamentarius of the apparitor status group), active in the 1st...
William Dickson
William Kennedy Laurie Dickson (3 August 1860 – 28 September 1935) was a French-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...
Date of birth:
- Aug 3, 1860
Date of death:
- Sep 28, 1935 (age 75 years)
