Engineers? 🤨🤔

[Lucky13]

Since this virus is keeping us at home, what would the Top 10 list of engineers throughout history look like?

 

[rednev]

Since this virus is keeping us at home, what would the Top 10 list of engineers throughout history look like?

Isambard kingdom brunel would have to be on the list

 

[swampyankee]

Some more nominations:

John A. Roebling
Gustave Eiffel
James Watt

 

[Elmas]

Some of the most important are generally unkwnon to the great public…

The Roman engineers

The Architects of the gothic Cathedrals

Galileo Galilei

Robert Hooke

Christopher Wren

Giacomo Della Porta and Domenico Fontana

Leonhard Euler

Daniel Bernoulli

Gaspard Monge

Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot

Adhémar-Jean-Claude Barré de Saint-Venant

James Watt

Isambard Kingdom Brunel

Christian Otto Mohr

Antonio Pacinotti

Gustave Eiffel

Ernst Mach

The Wright brothers

C. "Kelly" Johnson

And so on…

 

[Capt. Vick]

Theodorus of Samos

 

[Airframes]

James Brindley.
Robert Stephenson.

 

[Crimea_River]

Add Nikola Tesla

 

[buffnut453]

I'd add Charles Babbage and, although not an engineer, Alan Turing.

 

[buffnut453]

And I'd probably add Tommy Flowers to complete my trio of engineers who paved the way for digital computing.

 

[xylstra]

Since this virus is keeping us at home, what would the Top 10 list of engineers throughout history look like?

Number ONE: The lead engineer who designed and built the Antikythera Mechanism.

 

[nuuumannn]

Stanley Hooker, only a great engineer would be remembered as 'not much of an engineer'. Let's also not forget Sergei Korolev, father of the Russian space programme in the Cold War, Andrei Tupolev, and those who led the plagiarism of the B-29 and the subsequent impact that had on the Russian aviation industry - it took real skill to do what Tupolev achieved with what the Russian industry was capable of at the time, although there's nothing like a Stalinst deadline imposition to spur the work force on!

 

[SaparotRob]

Zephram Cochran. Inventor of the space warp.

 

[herman1rg]

Leonardo Da Vinci
Robert Watson-Watt
Sidney Camm
R J Mitchell

 

[mikewint]

There is ONLY ONE!!! - CASEY JONES

 

[herman1rg]

Barnes Wallis of course

 

[SaparotRob]

There is ONLY ONE!!! - CASEY JONES

I should have thought of that myself. I'm retired railroad.