Remarkable Engineers: From Riquet to ShannonEngineering 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. |
Contents
| 1 | |
2 From Jessop to Marc Isambard Brunel | 16 |
3 From Trevithick to Sadi Carnot | 33 |
4 From Henry to Bazalgette | 57 |
5 From Eads to Bell | 78 |
6 From Braun to Hertz | 103 |
7 From Diesel to Marconi | 127 |
8 From Palchinskii to Zworykin | 145 |
9 From Gabor to Shannon | 163 |
Epilogue | 188 |
| 191 | |
Credits | 200 |
Image credits | 202 |
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Academy aircraft American Analytical Engine Andrei Tupolev appointed Austhorpe awarded Babbage Baird Bazalgette became began Bell Berlin born Boulton and Watt Braun bridge Britain British brother Brunel built canal Carnot Cayley Charles Vignoles civil engineering Claude Shannon construction daughter died Diesel Edison Eiffel engi England famous father France French Gabor George Cayley George Stephenson German Hertha Hertz honours industrial Institute interest invention inventor James Jessop John Smeaton laboratory Languedoc later lectures lived locomotives London machine Marc Isambard Brunel Marconi married mathematics mechanical mother moved nŽee neer Pal’chinskii Paris patent physicist physics problems railway Rainhill trials Rennie returned Riquet river Roebling Royal Society Russia scientific scientists Shannon Shockley Smeaton Soviet spent steam engine Stephenson success telegraph telegraphy Telford Tesla Thomson took Trevithick Tupolev United University Vauban Vignoles Watt Westinghouse wife William William Orton Zworykin