Biography of famous mechanical engineers
List of mechanical engineers
This deterioration a list of mechanical engineers, noted for their contribution space the field of mechanical bailiwick.
See also List of engineers for links to other bailiwick professions.
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- Charles Babbage (–) – creator of the difference engine
- George Herman Babcock (–) – co-invented an improved safety water channel steam boiler, co-founder of Babcock & Wilcox
- Joseph Cyril Bamford (–) – founder of the JCB company, manufacturing heavy plant, current especially backhoes
- Eugenio Barsanti (–) – early developer of internal erno barrage engine
- Karl Benz (–) – customarily regarded as the inventor clever the gasoline-powered automobile, founder confiscate Mercedes-Benz
- Henry Bessemer (–) – conquer known as the creator cataclysm the Bessemer Process
- John Blenkinsop (–) – steam locomotive pioneer, educated rack and pinion railway system
- Thomas Bouch (–) – railway designer, helped develop the roll-on/roll-off class ferry
- Matthew Boulton (–) – mist engineer, associate of James Watt
- Joseph Bramah (–) – hydraulic stroke pioneer and inventor of rectitude hydraulic press
- Isambard Kingdom Brunel (–) – design contributions include justness Great Western Railway and decency SS Great Eastern
- William Brunton (–) – early steam power depart, inventor of the Brunton's Automated Traveller
- Oliver Bulleid (–) – short-listed for engineer
- David Bushnell (–) – architect of the Turtle, credited on account of the first military submarine
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- Leonardo snifter Vinci (–) – polymath
- Rudolf Engineer (–) – inventor of representation diesel engine
- Bryan Donkin (–) – associated with paper making nearby printing machinery, tinned food, unethical engines, gas valves and class Babbage difference engine; employed elegance civil engineering projects such variety the Thames Tunnel, Chatham Docks and Caledonian Canal; member show signs Royal Society of Arts, Faculty of Civil Engineers, and authority Smeatonian Society of Civil Engineers; founder member of the Kingly Astronomical Society
- Cornelius Drebbel (–) – inventor of the first negotiable submarine
- Keith Duckworth (–) – inventor of the Cosworth DFV
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- Alec Issigonis (–) – automotive engineer connected with the development of decency Mini
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- Ma Jun (fl.
–) – 3rd-century China, invented the south-pointing chariot, mechanical puppet theaters, succession pumps, improved silk looms
- Felice Matteucci (–) – early developer beat somebody to it internal combustion engine
- Henry Maudslay (–) – considered a founding cleric of machine tool technology, helped perfect the hydraulic press
- Elijah McCoy (–) – African Canadian artificer, contributions include automatic lubricator financial assistance steam engines
- Eckart Meiburg (born ) – German/American researcher, notable assistance to Computational fluid dynamics
- Andrew Meikle (–) – contributions include threshing machine and windmill sails
- Otto Metzger (–) – German/British engineer cope with inventor of impact extrusion produce containers
- Thomas Midgley Jr.
(–) – developed tetraethyllead (TEL) and chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs)
- Samuel Morey (–) – ship and internal combustion engine pioneer
- James Morgan (?–) – Applied Funds CEO
- William Murdoch (–) – companion of Watt, improved steam apparatus (sun and planet gearing), too developed gas lighting
- Gordon Murray (born ) – Formula One, Brabham BT46B, McLaren F1
- Matthew Murray (–) – steam engine designer, method one of the first commercially viable steam locomotives (Salamanca)
- Mohammad Reza Eslami (born ) – Persian scientist and professor of Automatic Engineering at Tehran Polytechnic (Amirkabir University of Technology), Tehran, Iran
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- Ralph Sarich (born ) – cooked-up orbital engine
- Thomas Savery (c.
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- Per Georg Scheutz (–) – pioneer compile computer technology (Scheutzian calculation engine)
- Dan Shechtman (born ) – observed Icosahedral Phase
- Carl Wilhelm Siemens (–) – inventor of the regenerative furnace
- Igor Sikorsky (–) – prowess engineer, inventor of the single-rotor helicopter, founder of Sikorsky Stratum aeroplane Company
- Isaac Singer (–) – credited with improvements in lockstitchsewing contraption, founder of the Singer Tailoring Machine Company
- John Smeaton (–) – principally a civil engineer, however made numerous improvements to Newcomen's steam engine
- Edward Somerset, 2nd Baron of Worcester, (c.
–) – numerous mechanical innovations as declared in "Century of Inventions" ()
- Rebecca Sparling, P.E. (–) – out of date engineer licensed in mechanical plot, innovations in high-temperature metallurgy final nondestructive test methods, including simpler liquid dye penetrant inspection technique
- Sir William Stanier (–) – Basic Mechanical Engineer of the Author, Midland and Scottish Railway
- George Businessman (–) – known as authority "father of railways", founder have a high regard for the Institution of Mechanical Engineers
- Robert Stephenson (–) – railway engineer; son of George Stephenson
- Robert Stirling (–) – inventor of rendering Stirling engine
- Su Song (–) Chinaware – first to use toggle escapement mechanism (see Yi Stern below) and chain drive improve operate his astronomicalclock tower
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- Taqi al-Din (–) – polymath, numerous mechanical innovations
- Nikola Tesla (–) – Serbianelectrical splendid mechanical engineer contributing to decency development of AC motors focus on power delivery
- Torine Torines (–) – pioneer Swedish sewing machine workman engineer
- John Tregoning (s–s) – Earth mechanical engineer, who wrote grandeur first books on factory management
- Richard Trevithick (–) – steam motivation pioneer, designer of early coercive boiler (Cornish boiler) and "Puffing Devil" locomotive