James I. Remarkable Engineers: From Riquet to Shannon

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010. — 220 p.Engineering transformed the world completely between the 17th and 21st centuries. Remarkable Engineers tells the stories of 51 of the key pioneers in this transformation, from the designers and builders of the world's railways, bridges and aeroplanes, to the founders of the modern electronics and communications revolutions. The focus throughout is on their varied life stories, and engineering and scientific detail is kept to a minimum. Engineer profiles are organized chronologically, inviting readers with an interest in engineering to follow the path by which these remarkable engineers utterly changed our lives.Prologue
Pierre-Paul Riquet (1604–1680)
Sébastien le Prestre de Vauban (1633–1707)
James Brindley (1716–1772)
John Smeaton (1724–1792)
James Watt (1736–1819)
William Jessop (1745–1814)
Lazare Carnot (1753–1823)
Thomas Telford (1757–1834)
John Rennie (1761–1821)
Sir Marc Isambard Brunel (1769–1849)
Richard Trevithick (1771–1833)
Sir George Cayley (1773–1857)
George Stephenson (1781–1848)
Charles Babbage (1791–1871)
Charles Blacker Vignoles (1793–1875)
Sadi Carnot (1796–1832)
Joseph Henry (1797–1878)
John Ericsson (1803–1889)
Robert Stephenson (1803–1859)
Isambard Kingdom Brunel (1806–1859)
John Augustus Roebling (1806–1869)
Sir Joseph William Bazalgette (1819–1891)
James Buchanan Eads (1820–1887)
William Thomson (Lord Kelvin of Largs) (1824–1907)
Gustave Eiffel (1832–1923)
George Westinghouse (1846–1914)
Thomas Alva Edison (1847–1931)
Alexander Graham Bell (1847–1922)
Ferdinand Braun (1850–1918)
Hertha Ayrton (1854–1923)
Sir Charles Parsons (1854–1931)
Granville Woods (1856–1910)
Nikola Tesla (1856–1943)
Heinrich Hertz (1857–1894)
Rudolf Diesel (1858–1913)
Elmer A Sperry (1860–1930)
Wilbur Wright (1867–1912) and Orville Wright (1871–1948)
Frederick Lanchester (1868–1946)
Guglielmo Marconi (1874–1937)
Peter Akimovich Pal’chinskii (1875–1929)
Edith Clarke (1883–1959)
Andrei Tupolev (1888–1972)
John Logie Baird (1888–1946)
Vladimir Kosma Zworykin (1889–1982)
Dennis Gabor (1900–1979)
Sergei Pavlovich Korolev (1907–1966)
Sir Frank Whittle (1907–1996)
William Shockley (1910–1989)
Wernher von Braun (1912–1977)
Claude Shannon (1916–2001)
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