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List of the most influential people in Engineering,

#10151

Alfred Ewing

1855 - 1935 (80 years)

Sir James Alfred Ewing MInstitCE was a Scottish physicist and engineer, best known for his work on the magnetic properties of metals and, in particular, for his discovery of, and coinage of the word, hysteresis.

#10152

Harold Marion Crothers

1887 - Present (139 years)

Harold Marion Crothers was an American professor of electrical engineering at South Dakota State University where he also served as president for three periods . He was dean of Engineering 1925-55 and gave name to the Crothers Engineering Hall . Earlier, he was instrumental in the establishment of the university's first radio station .

#10153

Edmund Kesting

1892 - 1970 (78 years)

Edmund Kesting was a German photographer, painter and art professor. He studied until 1916 at the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts before participating as a soldier in the First World War, upon returning his painting teachers were Richard Müller and Otto Gussmann and in 1919 he began to teach as a professor at the private school Der Weg. In 1923 he had his first exposition in the gallery Der Sturm in which he showed photograms. When Der Weg opened a new academy in Berlin in 1927, he moved to the capital.

#10154

Peter Bredsdorff

1913 - 1981 (68 years)

Christian Erhardt Bredsdorff, commonly known as Peter Bredsdorff, was a Danish architect and urban planner who is remembered for his Finger Plan for the development of Copenhagen. In this connection, his name is included in the Danish Culture Canon.

#10155

Bill Brandt

1904 - 1983 (79 years)

Bill Brandt was a British photographer and photojournalist. Born in Germany, Brandt moved to England, where he became known for his images of British society for such magazines as Lilliput and Picture Post; later he made distorted nudes, portraits of famous artists and landscapes. He is widely considered to be one of the most important British photographers of the 20th century.

#10156

Magnus Maclean

1857 - 1937 (80 years)

Prof Magnus Maclean FRSE MIEE MICE LLD was an electrical engineer who assisted Lord Kelvin in his electrical experiments and later became Professor of Electrical Engineering in Glasgow . The Magnus Maclean Memorial Prize given to students of electrical engineering is named in his honour. A native speaker of Scottish Gaelic, he also lectured in Celtic Studies at the University of Glasgow, delivering the MacCallum lectures, in English between 1901 and 1093. These lectures constituted the first official lectures in Celtic studies at the University.

#10157

Wilhelm Neumann

Wilhelm Neumann

1849 - 1919 (70 years)

Carl Johann Wilhelm Neumann was a Baltic German architect and art historian. Neumann's family moved to Kreutzburg during Wilhelm's childhood. When he was 15 years old, he worked as an apprentice at Paul Max Bertschy's engineering office during the construction of the Riga–Dünaburg Railway. After this he studied at the Riga Polytechnicum, and beginning 1875 at the Imperial Academy of Arts in Saint Petersburg.

#10158

Franjo Hanaman

1878 - 1941 (63 years)

Franjo Hanaman was a Croatian inventor, engineer, and chemist, who gained world recognition for inventing the world's first applied electric light-bulb with a metal filament with his assistant Alexander Just, independently of his contemporaries.

#10159

Sequoyah

1770 - 1843 (73 years)

Sequoyah , also known as George Gist or George Guess, was a Native American polymath and neographer of the Cherokee Nation. In 1821, he completed his independent creation of the Cherokee syllabary, making reading and writing in Cherokee possible. His achievement was one of the few times in recorded history that an individual who was a member of a pre-literate group created an original, effective writing system. His creation of the syllabary allowed the Cherokee nation to be one of the first North American Indigenous groups to have a written language. Sequoyah was also an important representative for the Cherokee nation, by going to Washington, D.C.

#10160

Johann Rihosek

1869 - 1956 (87 years)

Johann Rihosek was an Austrian engineer and locomotive designer. He was born in Maków Podhalański, in Austro-Hungarian Galicia on 5 June 1869. Rihosek attended the middle school at Olmütz and later studied mechanical engineering at the Vienna Technical University.

#10161

Adolf Szyszko-Bohusz

1883 - 1948 (65 years)

Adolf Szyszko-Bohusz was a Polish architect and conservator of monuments, a leading representative of historicism and modernism in Poland. Life and career He was born on 1 September 1883 in Narva, Russian Empire to parents Polikarp Szyszko-Bohusz and mother Marcelina .

#10162

Vladimír Teyssler

1891 - 1958 (67 years)

Vladimír Teyssler was a Czechoslovak engineer and professor at the Czech Higher Technical School in Prague . From 1927 to 1949 Teyssler, together with editor Václav Kotyška, published Technický slovník naučný , a massive illustrated Czech-language encyclopedia covering technical topics.

#10163

Saturnino de Brito

1864 - 1929 (65 years)

Francisco Rodrigues Saturnino de Brito is considered the pioneer of sanitary engineering and environmental engineering in Brazil. He was a hydraulics and sanitation engineer and professor at Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. He lived in Rio de Janeiro. His son Francisco Saturnino de Brito Filho had continued his important works.

#10164

Fritz Schupp

1896 - 1974 (78 years)

Fritz Schupp was a German architect. He was educated from 1914 to 1917 at the Universities of Karlsruhe, München and Stuttgart. Despite mostly working alone, he formed a partnership based in Essen and Berlin with Martin Kremmer . From 1949, Schupp was a lecturer at the Technical University in Hannover. Between 1920 and 1974, he built 69 factories and plants. In the Bergbauarchiv , 17500 sketches are at the disposal of researchers. His best-known work was the Zollverein Coal Mine Industrial Complex, a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 2001.

#10165

Selman Selmanagić

1905 - 1986 (81 years)

Selman Selmanagić was a Bosnian-German architect and long-time professor at the Weißensee Academy of Art Berlin who worked extensively for the government of East Germany. Biography Selmanagić was born in Srebrenica in eastern Bosnia, then administered by Austria-Hungary, and grew up from 1918 on in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia. After an apprenticeship as a carpenter and his journeyman's examination, Selmanagić first worked as a carpenter in the wagon factory in Sarajevo in 1923-24 and in 1925, after a one-year visit to the Ljubljana School of Crafts, made his master's job as a construction and furniture carpenter.

#10166

Ludwig A. Colding

Ludwig A. Colding

1815 - 1888 (73 years)

Ludwig August Colding was a Danish civil engineer and physicist who articulated the principle of conservation of energy contemporaneously with, and independently of, James Prescott Joule and Julius Robert von Mayer though his contribution was largely overlooked and neglected.

#10167

Jiří Trnka

1912 - 1969 (57 years)

Jiří Trnka was a Czech puppet-maker, illustrator, motion-picture animator and film director. In addition to his extensive career as an illustrator, especially of children's books, he is best known for his work in animation with puppets, which began in 1946. Most of his films were intended for adults and many were adaptations of literary works. Because of his influence in animation, he was called "the Walt Disney of Eastern Europe", despite the great differences between their works. He received the international Hans Christian Andersen Medal for illustrators in 1968, recognizing his career con...

#10168

Clarence Hudson White

Clarence Hudson White

1871 - 1925 (54 years)

Clarence Hudson White was an American photographer, teacher and a founding member of the Photo-Secession movement. He grew up in small towns in Ohio, where his primary influences were his family and the social life of rural America. After visiting the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago in 1893, he took up photography. Although he was completely self-taught in the medium, within a few years he was internationally known for his pictorial photographs that captured the spirit and sentimentality of America in the early twentieth century. As he became well known for his images, White was sought out by other photographers who often traveled to Ohio to learn from him.

#10169

Karl Willy Wagner

Karl Willy Wagner

1883 - 1953 (70 years)

Karl Willy Wagner was a German pioneer in the theory of electronic filters. He is noted by Hendrik Bode as being one of two Germans whose; The other German being referred to is Wilhelm Cauer. Wagner was the second referee on Cauer's milestone 1926 thesis but Wagner fell out with Cauer in 1942 after he refused to support Wagner's research proposals with the German Society of Electrical Engineers .

#10170

Victor Steinbrueck

Victor Steinbrueck

1911 - 1985 (74 years)

Victor Eugene Steinbrueck was an American architect, best known for his efforts to preserve Seattle's Pioneer Square and Pike Place Market. He authored several books and was also a University of Washington faculty member.

#10171

Franz Hillinger

1895 - 1973 (78 years)

Franz Hillinger was an architect of the Neues Bauen movement in Berlin and in Turkey. Early life Hillinger was born to Jewish parents in the dual monarchy of Austria-Hungary, in what was known at that time as the Kingdom of Hungary. He intended to study architecture at the University of Budapest following the completion of his military service during World War I. Due to violent, anti-Semitic demonstrations and subsequent calls for bans on Jewish enrollment and the enactment of restrictive legislation curtailing the Jewish student population, Hillinger instead went to Germany and studied architecture at the Technical University of Berlin from 1919 to 1922.

#10172

Joseph Smith

1897 - 1956 (59 years)

Joseph Smith CBE was an English aircraft designer who took over as Chief Designer for Supermarine upon the death of R. J. Mitchell and led the team responsible for the subsequent development of the Supermarine Spitfire.

#10173

Stephen Harriman Long

Stephen Harriman Long

1784 - 1864 (80 years)

Stephen Harriman Long was an American army civil engineer, explorer, and inventor. As an inventor, he is noted for his developments in the design of steam locomotives. He was also one of the most prolific explorers of the early 1800s, although his career as an explorer was relatively short-lived. He covered over 26,000 miles in five expeditions, including a scientific expedition in the Great Plains area, which he famously confirmed as a "Great Desert" .

#10174

Friedrich August Krubsacius

1718 - 1789 (71 years)

Friedrich August Krubsacius was a German architect, teacher, and architectural theoretician. He was born at Dresden. In 1755 he was made court architect to the Electorate of Saxony, in 1764 professor of architecture at the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts and in 1776 chief architect of Saxony.

#10175

Erwin Barth

1880 - 1933 (53 years)

Erwin Barth was a German landscape gardener and architect. His work was part of the architecture event in the art competition at the 1928 Summer Olympics. Biography Barth was born to Albert Barth and Luise in Lübeck. A year after the birth of his sister Frieda in 1882, his father died from tuberculosis. Primary school at the Realgymnasium gave him an interest in nature studies, and he began to collect plants and other natural history objects. He wanted to find an education that would allow him to work and earn for the family, so he decided to train as a garden architect at the Royal Gardenin...

#10176

Gerard Antoni Ciołek

Gerard Antoni Ciołek

1909 - 1966 (57 years)

Gerard Ciołek was a Polish architect, as well as a leading historian of parks and gardens. Biography Gerard Antoni Ciołek was born in Wyżnica, a small town in the Austro-Hungarian Duchy of Bukovina . His parents, Adolf and Ludwika Ciołek were from Galicia and Bukovina . His father was a high-ranking official at the Austrian Tax Office, first in Kuty, then in nearby Wyżnica in Carpathia. Following the end of World War I, and the collapse of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Wyżnica was incorporated into Romania.

#10177

Leonid Dushkin

1910 - 1990 (80 years)

Leonid Stepanovich Dushkin , was a major pioneer of Soviet rocket engine technology. He graduated from Moscow State University with a degree in mathematics and mechanics. In October 1932, he joined Fridrikh Tsander's brigade of GIRD, the Moscow rocket research group. He assisted in the creation of their first rocket engine OR-2, and after Tsander's death, he oversaw the creation of engine "10" which powered the first Soviet liquid-fuel rocket, GIRD-X.

#10178

Henry Atherton Frost

1883 - 1952 (69 years)

Henry Atherton Frost, was an American architect and instructor at Harvard University. He was largely responsible for inaugurating and overseeing an early graduate program in architecture and landscape architecture for women that became known as the Cambridge School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture.

#10179

Robert Taylor

1714 - 1788 (74 years)

Sir Robert Taylor was an English architect and sculptor who worked in London and the south of England. Early life Born at Woodford, Essex, Taylor followed in his father's footsteps and started working as a stonemason and sculptor, spending time as a pupil of Sir Henry Cheere. Despite some important commissions, including a bust of London merchant Christopher Emmott today held in the church of St Bartholomew, Colne, Lancashire, and another of William Phipps , now in the parish church of Westbury, Wiltshire, he enjoyed little success and turned instead to architecture.

#10180

William Buckland

William Buckland

1734 - 1774 (40 years)

William Buckland was a British architect who designed several important buildings in colonial Maryland and Virginia. Biography Born at Oxford, England, Buckland spent seven years as an apprentice to his uncle, James Buckland, "Citizen and Joiner" of London. At 21, he was brought to Virginia as an indentured servant to Thomson Mason, brother of George Mason. Most notable among his repertoire are: Gunston Hall and Hammond-Harwood House .

#10181

Vladimir Zotikov

1887 - 1970 (83 years)

Vladimir Evgenievich Zotikov was a prominent Russian and Soviet scientist and textile engineer best known for having developed the theory of cotton-spinning. He devoted his life to the study and improvement of mechanical technology of fibrous materials.

#10182

Werner Hegemann

Werner Hegemann

1881 - 1936 (55 years)

Werner Hegemann was a city planner, architecture critic, and political writer in Germany's Weimar Republic. His published criticism of Hitler and the Nazi party required him to leave Germany with his family in 1933. He died prematurely in New York City in 1936.

#10183

Harley A. Wilhelm

Harley A. Wilhelm

1900 - 1995 (95 years)

Harley A. Wilhelm was an American chemist who helped to establish the United States Department of Energy's Ames Laboratory at Iowa State University. His uranium extraction process helped make it possible for the Manhattan Project to build the first atomic bombs.

#10184

Dušan Stankov

1900 - 1983 (83 years)

Dušan Stankov/ , was an engineer and professor at the University of Belgrade's Faculty of the Mechanical Engineering, a Yugoslav aircraft constructor, who contributed greatly to developing the studies at the faculty and the Faculty itself as well as to the development of the Yugoslav Air Force in general.

#10185

Bob Clampett

1913 - 1984 (71 years)

Robert Emerson Clampett Sr. was an American animator, director, producer and puppeteer best known for his work on the Looney Tunes animated series from Warner Bros. as well as the television shows Time for Beany and Beany and Cecil. He was born and raised not far from Hollywood and, early in life, showed an interest in animation and puppetry. After dropping out of high school in 1931, he joined the team at Harman-Ising Productions and began working on the studio's newest short subjects, Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies.

#10186

A. K. Huntington

1852 - 1920 (68 years)

Professor Alfred Kirby Huntington was a British professor of metallurgy and aviation pioneer. He flew balloons and made and flew his own aeroplane. Early life Alfred Kirby Huntington was born on 18 January 1852 in Ipswich, Suffolk to Francis Henry Huntington and Amelia Huntington . He had an elder brother, Francis D’Esterre Huntington, who was born in 1847 but died aged 10 in 1857.

#10187

John Gibson

1817 - 1892 (75 years)

John Gibson was an English architect born at Castle Bromwich, Warwickshire. Life Gibson was an assistant to Sir Charles Barry and assisted him in the drawings of the Houses of Parliament. Gibson was a prominent bank architect at a time when joint-stock banking was an innovation. His 1847 National Bank of Scotland branch in Glasgow led to perhaps his best-known work, the former National Provincial Bank in Bishopsgate, London, designed in 1862. It was listed Grade I in 1950 and is now known as Gibson Hall.

#10188

Harlan Thomas

1870 - 1953 (83 years)

Harlan Thomas was an American architect in the first half of the twentieth century. From 1926 to the early 1940s he served as Chair of the University of Washington Department of Architecture. He was also a noted watercolorist.

#10189

Andy Haines

#10190

Houbing Song

#10191

Maurice Zucrow

1899 - 1975 (76 years)

Maurice Joseph Zucrow was a Russian-born American scientist and aerospace engineer known for his contributions to the development of gas turbines and jet propulsion. Zucrow was born in Kiev in Tsarist Russia and immigrated with his family to the United Kingdom in 1900. Young Maurice attended Central Foundation Boys' School in London. The family moved to the US in 1914.

#10192

Paul Ludwig Simon

Paul Ludwig Simon

1771 - 1815 (44 years)

Paul Ludwig Simon, also known as Paul Louis Simon , was a German architect and professor at the Building Academy in the faculty of architectural physics and a privy architectural counsellor at the Prussian Higher Council of Architecture in Berlin. In the latter position Simon was the predecessor of Karl Friedrich Schinkel. Simon was serving as well as Senior Director of public works for the Marches of Pomerania and Prussia. Beside these fields of activity Simon did – at that time in Europe well known – research work in the field of Electrochemistry and Galvanism. He published different artic...

#10193

William Mason

1810 - 1897 (87 years)

William Mason was a New Zealand architect born in Ipswich, England, the son of an architect/builder George Mason and Susan, née Forty. Trained by his father he went to London where he seems to have worked for Thomas Telford . He studied under Peter Nicholson before eventually working for Edward Blore . In 1831 he married Sarah Nichols, a Berkshire woman apparently fifteen years older than he was. A son was born in the first year of their marriage. In 1836 he returned to Ipswich to practise. Having worked at Lambeth Palace he had attracted the interest of the bishop of London, who now employed him independently designing churches and parsonages.

#10194

Clarence Cory

1872 - 1937 (65 years)

Clarence Linus Cory was an American engineer and educator who is known as the father of Electrical Engineering at University of California, Berkeley. Early life Cory was born in Lafayette, Indiana, to Thomas Cory and Carrie Stoney. Cory's father was an inventor and served as a topographer in the Union Army during the American Civil War.

#10195

Max Taitz

1904 - 1980 (76 years)

Max Taitz was a Soviet scientist, engineer, and one of the founders of Gromov Flight Research Institute . He was a doctor of engineering, a professor, and a recipient of the Stalin Prize , and the honorary title of Honoured Scientist of the RSFSR .

#10196

Ephraim Francis Baldwin

1837 - 1916 (79 years)

Ephraim Francis Baldwin was an American architect, best known for his work for the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad and for the Roman Catholic Church. Personal life Although born in Troy, New York, Baldwin lived most of his life in Baltimore, Maryland. After his father, a civil engineer, died, his mother moved to her hometown of Baltimore, where Baldwin would be educated and raised. He attended Loyola Blakefield from 1850 to 1852. He attended Mount St. Mary's University in Emmitsburg, Maryland briefly, from 1854 to 1855.

#10197

Ernst Robert Fiechter

1875 - 1948 (73 years)

Ernst Robert Fiechter was a Swiss architect and archaeologist. He is remembered for his research of ancient Greek temple and theatre architecture. He was a cousin to psychologist Carl Gustav Jung. He studied architecture and archaeology in Munich, obtaining his doctorate in 1904 with a dissertation on the Temple of Aphaea in Aegina. In 1906 he received his habilitation, and in 1911 was named a professor of architectural history at the Technical University of Stuttgart.

#10198

Willy Weyres

1903 - 1989 (86 years)

Willy Weyres was a German architect and academic teacher. He was from 1944 to 1972, diocesan master builder for the Archdiocese of Cologne for more than ten years, and full professor of architectural history and monument preservation at the RWTH Aachen from 1955 until his retirement in 1972. Under his leadership, the Cologne Cathedral was restored and further developed after the Second World War.

#10199

James Blyth

1838 - 1906 (68 years)

Professor James Blyth MA, LLD, FRSE FRSSA was a Scottish electrical engineer and academic at Anderson's College, now the University of Strathclyde, in Glasgow. He was a pioneer in the field of electricity generation through wind power and his wind turbine, which was used to light his holiday home in Marykirk, was the world's first-known structure by which electricity was generated from wind power. Blyth patented his design and later developed an improved model which served as an emergency power source at Montrose Lunatic Asylum, Infirmary & Dispensary for the next 30 years. Although Blyth rec...

#10200

Leopold Müller

1908 - 1988 (80 years)

Leopold Müller was a geologist, one of the pioneers of rock mechanics and one of the main contributors to the development of the New Austrian Tunnelling method. Müller opined, that the northern flank of the 1,900 meter high Monte Toc was not stable enough to withstand a reservoir with up to 150 million cubic meters of water when the Vajont dam was planned.

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