Virr Paul, Potter William. The 50 Greatest Engineers: The People Whose Innovations Have Shaped Our World

Arcturus Digital Limited, 2021 — 208 p. — ISBN 9781839406706In this stunning jacketed hardback, science writer Paul Virr introduces 50 of the world's most influential engineers of all time and a selection of their groundbreaking inventions, showcased with full-colour photography. Engineering is everywhere, from the Large Hadron Collider to invisibly small circuits on silicon chips. The 50 Greatest Engineers celebrates the great achievements that have been made through the ages, containing profiles of the best-known and most innovative engineers of all time. Chosen from across the globe, they include a diverse range of talent - from the likes of Nikola Tesla, Lillian Moller Gilbreth and Gustave Eiffel to Isambard Kingdom Brunel, Fazlu Rahman Khan and the Wright Brothers. Fully illustrated in full-color with examples of their major works, whether they be machines, buildings, bridges or life-changing technical innovations, this fascinating book explores how these men and women have beaten the odds to develop them.
Chosen from across the globe, they include a diverse range of talent - from the likes of Nikola Tesla and Gustave Eiffel to Isambard Kingdom Brunel, Fazlu Rahman Khan and the Wright Brothers. This is the perfect reference book for all the family to answer the question - 'Who made that?'Imhotep
Archimedes
Ctesibius
Vitruvius
Heron of Alexandria
Zhang Heng
Apollodorus of Damascus
Ismail Al-Jazari
Filippo Brunelleschi
Mariano di Jacopo:Il Taccola
Leonardo da Vinci
Cornelis Drebbel
Christiaan Huygens
Robert Hooke
Thomas Newcomen
John Harrison
James Watt
Thomas Telford
Richard Trevithick
George Cayley
George & Robert Stephenson
Michael Faraday
Isambard Kingdom Brunel
John, Washington & Emily Roebling
Joseph Bazalgette
Nikolaus Otto
William Le Baron Jenney
Gottlieb Daimler
Thomas Edison
Alexander Graham Bell
Vladimir Shukhov
Hertha Ayrton
Nikola Tesla
Granville Woods
Rudolf Diesel
August & Louis Lumière
Wilbur & Orville Wright
Guglielmo Marconi
Lillian Moller Gilbreth
Robert H. Goddard
Nora Stanton Blatch Barney
Olive Dennis
Tachū Naitō
Verena Holmes
Igor Sikorsky
R. Buckminster Fuller
Irmgard Flügge-Lotz
Frank Whittle
Werner von Braun
Fazlur Rahman Khan