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Gottlieb Daimler
German engineer and automobile manufacturer who produced the first high-speed internal combustion engine (1834-1900)
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Rudolf Christian Karl Diesel
German engineer (born in France) who invented the diesel engine (1858-1913)
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Bryan Donkin
English engineer who developed a method of preserving food by sterilizing it with heat and sealing it inside a steel container--the first tin can (1768-1855)
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Alexandre Gustave Eiffel
French engineer who constructed the Eiffel Tower (1832-1923)
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Richard Buckminster Fuller
United States architect who invented the geodesic dome (1895-1983)
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George Washington Goethals
United States army officer and engineer who supervised the construction of the Panama Canal (1858-1928)
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Hugo Junkers
German aircraft engineer who designed the first all-metal airplane (1859-1935)
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Charles Franklin Kettering
United States electrical engineer who made numerous automotive improvements (including the electric starter) (1876-1958)
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Leonardo da Vinci
Italian painter and sculptor and engineer and scientist and architect; the most versatile genius of the Italian Renaissance (1452-1519)
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John Augustus Roebling
United States engineer (born in Germany) who designed and began construction of the Brooklyn bridge (1806-1869)
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Claude Elwood Shannon
United States electrical engineer who pioneered mathematical communication theory (1916-2001)
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Sir Charles William Siemens
engineer who was a brother of Ernst Werner von Siemens and who moved to England (1823-1883)
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Elmer Ambrose Sperry
United States engineer and inventor of the gyrocompass (1860-1930)
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Richard Trevithick
English engineer who built the first railway locomotive (1771-1833)
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Thomas Augustus Watson
United States telephone engineer who assisted Alexander Graham Bell in his experiments (1854-1934)
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James Watt
Scottish engineer and inventor whose improvements in the steam engine led to its wide use in industry (1736-1819)
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Sir Henry Bessemer
British inventor and metallurgist who developed the Bessemer process (1813-1898)
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Wernher Magnus Maximilian von Braun
United States rocket engineer (born in Germany where he designed a missile used against England); he led the United States Army team that put the first American satellite into space (1912-1977)
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Vannevar Bush
United States electrical engineer who designed an early analogue computer and who led the scientific program of the United States during World War II (1890-1974)
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Father of Radio
United States electrical engineer who in 1907 patented the first triode vacuum tube, which made it possible to detect and amplify radio waves (1873-1961)
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Ray M. Dolby
United States electrical engineer who devised the Dolby system used to reduce background noise in tape recording
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Oliver Heaviside
English physicist and electrical engineer who helped develop telegraphic and telephonic communications; in 1902 (independent of A. E. Kennelly) he suggested the existence of an atmospheric layer that reflects radio waves back to earth (1850-1925)
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Arthur Edwin Kennelly
United States electrical engineer noted for his work on the theory of alternating currents; independently of Oliver Heaviside he discovered the existence of an atmospheric layer that reflects radio waves back to earth (1861-1939)
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Guglielmo Marconi
Italian electrical engineer who invented wireless telegraphy and in 1901 transmitted radio signals across the Atlantic Ocean (1874-1937)
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Reginald Joseph Mitchell
English aeronautical engineer (1895-1937)
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Ernst Werner von Siemens
German electrical engineer (1816-1892)
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Sir Clive Marles Sinclair
English electrical engineer who founded a company that introduced many innovative products (born in 1940)
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David Barnard Steinman
United States civil engineer noted for designing suspension bridges (including the George Washington Bridge) (1886-1960)
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Charles Proteus Steinmetz
United States electrical engineer and inventor (born in Germany) (1865-1923)
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Nikola Tesla
United States electrical engineer and inventor (born in Croatia but of Serbian descent) who discovered the principles of alternating currents and developed the first alternating-current induction motor and the Tesla coil and several forms of oscillators (1856-1943)
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Elihu Thomson
United States electrical engineer (born in England) who in 1892 formed a company with Thomas Edison (1853-1937)
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Sir Frank Whittle
English aeronautical engineer who invented the jet aircraft engine (1907-1996)
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aeronautical engineer
an engineer concerned with the design and construction of aircraft
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aerospace engineer
an engineer of aircraft and space vehicles
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army engineer, military engineer
a member of the military who is trained in engineering and construction work
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automotive engineer
an engineer concerned with the design and construction of automobiles
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civil engineer
an engineer trained to design and construct and maintain public works (roads or bridges or harbors etc.)
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electrical engineer
a person trained in practical applications of the theory of electricity
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marine engineer, naval engineer
a naval officer responsible for the operation and maintenance of the ship's engines
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mechanical engineer
a person trained to design and construct machines
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metallurgical engineer, metallurgist
an engineer trained in the extraction and refining and alloying and fabrication of metals
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mining engineer
an engineer concerned with the construction and operation of mines
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coder, computer programmer, programmer, software engineer
a person who designs and writes and tests computer programs
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rocket engineer, rocket scientist
an engineer who builds and tests rockets
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surveyor
an engineer who determines the boundaries and elevations of land or structures
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cracker
a programmer who cracks (gains unauthorized access to) computers, typically to do malicious things
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hacker
a programmer for whom computing is its own reward; may enjoy the challenge of breaking into other computers but does no harm
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cyber-terrorist, cyberpunk, hacker
a programmer who breaks into computer systems in order to steal or change or destroy information as a form of cyber-terrorism
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highway engineer
a civil engineer who specializes in the design and construction of roads and highways
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lineman
the surveyor who marks positions with a range pole
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locater, locator
a person who fixes the boundaries of land claims
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sapper
a military engineer who does sapping (digging trenches or undermining fortifications)
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sapper
a military engineer who lays or detects and disarms mines
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tribologist
a specialist in tribology